From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Matthew Wakeling <matthew@flymine.org>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Dell PERC H700/H800
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:26:15 -0800
Message-ID: <1265909175.22849.148.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1002111236270.6195@aragorn.flymine.org>
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On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 12:39 +0000, 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 of makes them no longer SATA
> or SAS compatible, and they shouldn't be allowed to use those acronyms any
> more.
That's interesting. I know that IBM at least on some of their models
have done the same. Glad I use HP :)
Joshua D. Drake
>
> Matthew
>
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