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Poweredge SC1435 - HDD size limits?
Hi,
I have a PowerEdge SC1435 and have just tried to replace 2 * 500Gb WD drives with 2 * 1Tb WD drives and I am getting 'Unknown Device' for both SATA Port A & SATA Port B.
SATA III drives & BIOS v2.2.3
Am I missing something here? Can this server support these drives? Does the BIOS need to be updated?
Thanks in advance,
Mark
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March 14th, 2014 12:00
The issue is the SATA III drives; these weren't supported till Dell's 10th Generation of servers. They will show up as unknown devices, whether or not the bios is updated.
Regards,
mark.smith
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March 17th, 2014 05:00
Many thanks for the reply Geoff, I'll try with SATA II drives instead.
Mark
djalsovec
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February 17th, 2015 05:00
Hi,
I have similar question regarding SC1435. We have 6 x SC1435 Nodes with broken 73 GB SAS 15k HDDs.
Current setup:
H313M 10 73GB SAS 15.000 1/MIN 3, 5ZOLL FESTPLATTE
HF369 10 73GB SAS 15.000 1/MIN 3, 5ZOLL ZUSATZLICH
J083G 10 SAS 5I/R CONTROLLERKARTE FUR SATA- UND S
Since system is out of warranty, SAS disks are much more expensive than SATA, and I found that SC1435 should support also SATA disk, is it possible to put any 500 GB SATA disks in this servers to bring them back in life?
Thanks,
Drazen
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February 17th, 2015 08:00
Yes, you can use SATA drives, just don't use desktop or NAS drives. Because you can't mix SAS and SATA in an array, you will need to backup and restore to the SATA array.
djalsovec
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March 4th, 2015 02:00
Thanks for this info. I know I cant mix SATA and SAS in array. This nodes currently don't have any disks and I have to put two new disks in each.
On SC1435 specification I found this:
www.dell.com/.../SC1435_Spec_Sheet_Quad.pdf
Maximum internal storage:
Up to 600GB: two 300GB cabled SAS (10K rpm)
Up to 1TB: two 500GB cabled SATA (7.2K rpm)
Hard drives:
3.5" SAS (10K rpm): 73GB, 146GB, 300GB;
3.5" SAS (15K rpm): 36GB, 73GB;
3.5" SATA II (7.2K rpm): 80GB,160GB, 250GB, 500GB
I guess device is old and it is not updated with new disks list. In the other thread http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/servers/f/906/t/19488725 I found that max supported array is 2TB by SAS 5/iR, and from your suggestion not to buy Desktop/NAS I found WD Re series disks.
Western Digital RE4 1TB WD1003FBYX
This disk would be good choice for RAID1 array 24/7 operation?