Re: [PERFORM] Dell PERC H700/H800

2010-02-17 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Joshua D. Drake wrote: On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 12:39 +, 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.

Re: [PERFORM] Dell PERC H700/H800

2010-02-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
Greg Smith wrote: I've been full-on vocally anti-Dell ever since they started releasing PCs with the non-standard ATX power supply pinout; that was my final straw with their terrible quality decisions. Yep, makes me feel validated for all of the anti-Dell advice I have given over the years

Re: [PERFORM] Dell PERC H700/H800

2010-02-12 Thread Dave Crooke
I do think it's valid to prevent idiot customers from installing drives that use too much power or run too hot, or desktop drives that don't support fast-fail reads, thus driving up Dell's support load, but it sounds like this is more of a lock-in attempt. This is kind of a dumb move on their

Re: [PERFORM] Dell PERC H700/H800

2010-02-12 Thread Greg Smith
I've been full-on vocally anti-Dell ever since they started releasing PCs with the non-standard ATX power supply pinout; that was my final straw with their terrible quality decisions. But after doing two tuning exercises with PERC6 controllers and getting quite good results this year, just a

[PERFORM] Dell PERC H700/H800

2010-02-11 Thread Matthew Wakeling
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

Re: [PERFORM] Dell PERC H700/H800

2010-02-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 12:39 +, 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

Re: [PERFORM] Dell PERC H700/H800

2010-02-11 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Matthew Wakeling matt...@flymine.org wrote: Just a heads up - apparently the more recent Dell RAID controllers will no longer recognise hard discs that weren't sold through Dell.

Re: [PERFORM] Dell PERC H700/H800

2010-02-11 Thread Łukasz Jagiełło
2010/2/11 James Mansion ja...@mansionfamily.plus.com: 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.

Re: [PERFORM] Dell PERC H700/H800

2010-02-11 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:11 PM, James Mansion ja...@mansionfamily.plus.com 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.

Re: [PERFORM] Dell PERC H700/H800

2010-02-11 Thread James Mansion
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