On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:11 PM, James Mansion <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. >> >> Matthew >> > 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? In the post to the dell mailing list ( http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2010-February/041335.html ) It was pointed out that the user had installed Seagate ES.2 drives, which are enterprise class drives that have been around a while and are kind of the standard SATA enterprise clas drives and are listed so by Seagate: http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/servers/barracuda_es/barracuda_es.2 These drives were marked as BLOCKED and unusable by the system. The pdf linked to in the dell forum specifically states that the hard drives are loaded with a dell specific firmware. The PDF seems otherwise free of useful information, and is mostly a marketing tool as near as I can tell. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
