If it works, I wouldn't worry about it. Dell tried to lock customers into Dell-branded disks at one point, but they reversed their decision once the community started blasting them.
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anybody know, if I buy a used HP DL380 Gen 7 or earlier, and it comes > with Hitachi SAS drives in HP carriers, will this cause problems? I assume > this is common because the original owner required the drives to be > physically destroyed, and the reseller replaced the drives in the existing > carriers. I know that HP went to smart carriers starting with Gen 8 that > will detect non HP drives, but my question is about a G7. It would cost me > at least $800 to replace the drives with new genuine HP drives, more than > the server cost. > > > > I had no trouble creating a RAID array, but I’m not sure where else to > look for any issues this may be causing. >
