From: Łukasz Jagiełło <lukasz.jagiello@gforces.pl>
To: James Mansion <james@mansionfamily.plus.com>
Cc: Matthew Wakeling <matthew@flymine.org>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Dell PERC H700/H800
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:58:12 +0100
Message-ID: <de899fb01002111258p7fc9a891v655bc8a547de8a34@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B74647A.1040002@mansionfamily.plus.com>
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<4B74647A.1040002@mansionfamily.plus.com>
2010/2/11 James Mansion <james@mansionfamily.plus.com>:
> 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.
>>
> I think that's potentially FUD. Its all about 'Dell qualified drives'. I
> can't see anything that suggests that Dell will OEM drives and somehow tag
> them so that the drive must have come from them. Of course they are big
> enough that they could have special BIOS I guess, but I read it that the
> drive types (and presumably revisions thereof) had to be recognised by the
> controller from a list, which presumably can be reflashed, which is not
> quite saying that if some WD enterprise drive model is 'qualified' then you
> have to buy it from Dell..
>
> Do you have any further detail?
For example: SAMSUNG MCCOE50G, 50GB SSD which you can buy only from
Dell. It's unknown at Samsung page. I think they can easy order own
model.
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