2010/2/11 James Mansion <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Matthew Wakeling wrote: >> >> Just a heads up - apparently the more recent Dell RAID controllers will no >> longer recognise hard discs that weren't sold through Dell. >> >> >> http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/02/10/dell_perc_11th_gen_qualified_hdds_only/ >> >> As one of the comments points out, that kind of makes them no longer SATA >> or SAS compatible, and they shouldn't be allowed to use those acronyms any >> more. >> > I think that's potentially FUD. Its all about 'Dell qualified drives'. I > can't see anything that suggests that Dell will OEM drives and somehow tag > them so that the drive must have come from them. Of course they are big > enough that they could have special BIOS I guess, but I read it that the > drive types (and presumably revisions thereof) had to be recognised by the > controller from a list, which presumably can be reflashed, which is not > quite saying that if some WD enterprise drive model is 'qualified' then you > have to buy it from Dell.. > > Do you have any further detail? For example: SAMSUNG MCCOE50G, 50GB SSD which you can buy only from Dell. It's unknown at Samsung page. I think they can easy order own model. -- Łukasz Jagiełło System Administrator G-Forces Web Management Polska sp. z o.o. (www.gforces.pl) Ul. Kruczkowskiego 12, 80-288 Gdańsk Spółka wpisana do KRS pod nr 246596 decyzją Sądu Rejonowego Gdańsk-Północ -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
