I would not EVER use a normal consumer SATA drive in any sort of RAID array.
The only SATA drives I would use are the ones intended for server storage - the Western Digital RE series or the Seagate Barracuda ES series. The Western Digital WD5002ABYS is an RE drive and should be fine. On 5/19/2010 9:51 AM, Erik Goldoff wrote: > Thanks, I’d **heard** that Dell relaxed the requirement of using DELL > oem’d drives on their newer servers, but still don’t know : > > 1) If consumer shelf drives work properly regardless of firmware > levels ( are they upgradable too with the Dell firmware ? ) -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
