Big time user of refurbished Dells here and I have used virtually every vendor of drive in PE 6800's with no issue. Obviously YMMV.
Cheers. From: Jim Dandy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 11:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hard Drives for Dell Servers I know someone who has ordered non-Dell drives and they have gotten corrupted - not immediately but after a period of time. Dell told him you have to use Dell drives. Dell used to sell the sled separately from the drive but apparently you have to buy them together now because of this problem. I can't say this is absolutely true but he believes it is. Curt Finley From: Joe Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 1:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hard Drives for Dell Servers I have been tasked with finding the maximum capacity of drives that we can put in some PowerEdge 6800's that we are going to be re-using. Right now I have 146GB U320 drives in them. I'm imagining that I should be able to get 300GB U320's from Dell, but I'm looking to be able to save some money on this. Since the carrier for the Dell drives is really just a bezel as the drives have an 80 pin SCA connection, should I be able to get away with using any 80 pin SCA U320 drive? Or is their some proprietary firmware in the Dell drives that would prevent me from doing that? Thanks in advance! Joe Fox Systems/Network Administrator Mobile# (716) 846-9308 http://www.linkedin.com/in/josephfoxjr ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
