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Compatible Hard Drives
This is regarding a Poweredge M1000E server. I understand it is fairly old and there are hard drive advancements for the m910E blades. Currently, ihave two failed drives and they are HGST I am having a very difficult time finding replacements.
1. Do i need the same P/N or does it matter.
2. Can i use a more modern drive. I have contacted Western digital as they own the discontinued HGST.com domain, and they gave me three choices but they said the server manufacturer needs to verify the compatibility.
I am not tied to this vendor, i just need to know what my options are as they do not make this hgst brand any more and they are difficult to replace.
Ultrastar DC SN840
from Western Digital
from Western Digital
Ultrastar DC SN640
from Western Digital
from Western Digital
Ultrastar DC SA210
from Western Digital
from Western Digital
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koolandrew
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January 5th, 2023 06:00
Thanks for any input on this
DELL-Shine K
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January 5th, 2023 08:00
I hope you have PowerEdge M910 blade?
Are you planning to replace the drive in an existing virtual disk with new drives? If you are planning to replace drives in a virtual disk then you need to use drives from same family, type and speed. Size can be same or bigger than existing drives. In your case it is SAS SSD with 12GPBS. You also need to use supported Dell drives.
If you are planning to have new virtual disk with these dives then you need to use a supported Dell drives. You can refer below link for supported drive types for PowerEdge M910. NVMe drives are not supported on PowerEdge M910
https://i.dell.com/sites/csdocuments/Shared-Content_data-Sheets_Documents/en/Dell-PowerEdge-M910-SpecSheet.pdf
koolandrew
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January 9th, 2023 17:00
Thanks for the update, so it appears that i can use"2.5” SAS SSD, SATA SSD, SAS (15K, 10K)" so what does the P/N mean...
1. There are other P/N's that i have found, does it matter at al which one
2. I would assume it would be better to have exactly the same drives in each blade.
Thanks again for replying.