I would suggest that not the drives and model numbers are relevant, only the Firmware. For getting support and a good troubleshoot by the dell agents it is the best to use our disks. If you want to make a list I would say the FW of the disks is the relevant information. Maybe you get fun if you use disks with acer and hp firmware - I had a case in the past with one disk from acer which makes trouble on the whole unit related to read and write operations. The perc controller and it's fw was developed to work with the disks we have in our portfolio and the FW on the disk. And the FW on the disks is often a root cause for disk timeouts and other disk failures where no HW reason can be found in the controller log. So our developer write a new to getting every time the best availability for your disk subsystem. OMSA will show you the HDD revision. If you make a list than use this information and include it in your tests.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bond Masuda Sent: 21 July 2009 20:31 To: Aleks McKinney Cc: linux-poweredge-Lists Subject: Re: Quick question for those of you with MD1000s Yes, as long as you are connecting the MD1000 to a PERC 5/E or PERC 6/E, there are 3rd party drives that will work in the MD1000. When you hook up the MD1000 to a MD3000, I believe the situation is different due to the controller module that is in the MD3000 controlling the drives; but I don't have a MD3000 to test this. Some of the hard drives that I have personally tested in MD1000 connected to PERC 5/E are: Western Digital RE3 1TB WD1002FBYS Western Digital RE3 500GB WD5002ABYS Maxtor DiamondMax 21 STM3500630AS 500GB The documentation from Dell on the MD1000 also lists various "compatible" hard drives, so you can work from that list too. Of the above, I prefer the Western Digital RE3 drives. These are SATA drives, I have not tested any SAS drives. (I haven't been able to find the benefit of using SAS drives in the MD1000 yet) I haven't verified all possible hard drives for obvious reasons, but my gut "feeling" is that they will all work just fine, unless the particular hard drive has an issue being in a RAID array (such as some "consumer" grade Western Digital, but that can be changed by enabling TLER with the WDTLER utility). If you end up testing some other hard drive with this, would you please email me back the model number? I'd like to make a list of compatible drives. B. On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 13:59 -0400, Aleks McKinney wrote: > I’ve got an md1000 no longer under support. Does any one have any > experience with 3rd party drives in the md1000? Both consumer and > enterprise editions? > > > > Thanks, > > Aleks > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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
