Hi, We have 32 x PE1950, plus 34 x R410, and have another 42 R410 on order. All servers have (the balance of) a 3-year warranty.
Each server has 4 x 146GB 2.5" SAS drives configured in RAID10. As you might imagine, with that many spindles we get regular failures. It's no biggie - we just create an incident with Dell and get a replacement sent to the DC, where it is fitted and the failed drive sent back. I want to buy a few spare drives to keep at the DC to use when we have drive failures to reduce the time we have to run degraded. So, I've got prices for Dell drives and equivalent Seagate drives: Dell: $199, inc. drive tray Seagate: $188 Now, that doesn't seem too bad, until you find out that the Seagate drives come with a 5-year warranty as standard but the Dell drives only come with a *1-year* warranty as standard!! If it weren't for that, I'd go for the Dells as it keeps a single point-of-contact for all replacements. But I can't go for hard drives with just 1 year of warranty. Now, if I do go with non-Dell drives, I'll still need to monitor them for failure. Does anyone know if OMSA is capable of monitoring non-Dell drives? If not, can can Seagate drives be flashed with Dell firmware? Thanks for any insight... R. _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
