Subject: Re: Dell PERC H700/H800
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
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To: Matthew Wakeling <matthew@flymine.org>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:26:15 -0800
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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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>  and an engineer as having redundant storage capacity.
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