Thanks for the followup on that. At the time I was buying Dell servers they all had PERC controllers so I either never realised there was this demarcation line or I forgot it because it was not relevant to me.
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Andrew Farnsworth <farn...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Andrew Farnsworth <farn...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Daniel Owen <danielowe...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> I'm not entirely sure if this is true across all ranges but early last >>> year Dell started to "block" non Dell branded drives from being used in >>> their PowerEdge line. I'm not sure if they backported this into firmware >>> upgrades or it is just for new systems. This is really no different than >>> what HP or IBM have been doing for years. They buy commodity drives and then >>> flash their proprietary firmware. It's kind of a pain because you could >>> always add cheap storage to a Dell server and parts shortages were not an >>> issue. Anyway this is something to consider if you plan to add your own >>> cheap drives after purchasing a machine. I have no first hand experience >>> with this issue. When I was in an environment where I purchased hardware I >>> always purchased whatever drives I needed with the system. What really >>> bugged me about this was that there were times where parts would go on >>> backorder and it was nice to know outside of a system board or certain >>> controller cards Dells were just standard parts I could buy on the open >>> market. >>> >>> Here is a link to an article from the time: >>> >>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/10/dell_perc_11th_gen_qualified_hdds_only/ >>> >> I'll certainly be on the phone to Dell before buying this server then. I >> have a T110 from about 14 months ago and it does not have this issue. I >> immediately added 3 1.5 Tb drives to it with no issue whatsoever. If they >> have done this to to their low end server line, then they have lost all >> future business from me. I'm not willing to pay $200+ for a $70 hard drive. >> >> Andy >> > > I just spoke with Dell and they confirmed that they are restricting the use > of 3rd party drives, but only on their High End PERC controllers which are > not available in the T110... So that eliminates that worry. > > > Andy > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<nlug-talk%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
