You can try to use the drives with the interposer board on them but I am not sure if it will see the drive & boot them up. The issue is that the drives that are on the approved list have a dell firmware on the drives that is seen by the MD so it knows to power it on. With drives that are not on the list & are not dell drives you can attempt to see if the drive will spin up & get seen but most cheaper drives when you put them in to an MD will light up for a few seconds then power off the drive as it doesn’t recognize the firmware on the drive. You can search on the web for a dell reseller that sells drives off the approved list at a cheaper prices and those will work in an MD.
Please let us know if you have any other questions.
normal SATA devices are working here very well on MD1000 (u should take Raid Editions anyway)
Maybe you should not use drives >1000GB for that is not supported afaik.
We have here 15 Drives WD1003FBYX in an "out of any support" MD1000 Enclosure on a PERC 5/E Controller in an PE2900 working fine. (there were also SATA drives within the enclosure before) PERC 5/E and PE2900 firmware revision is latest. MD1000... dont know atm :)
normally you have a backplane which is compatible to SAS & SATA as well for SATA Backplanes / Ports do not support SAS drives.
it might be a firmware issue with the MD1000 / Raidcontroller since customers were not happy when dell did not support foreign drives on some firmeware revisions. i think at the moment with latest firmware it should be possible to use foreign drives but i would only try that on enclosure that have no supportlevel anymore.
we use enclosures still within a support level only with dell drives, for you get a new drive on any fail within 2h, 4h or Next Business Day and you are fully supported by the dell technical support.
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March 13th, 2013 15:00
Hello ePolkTiTUS,
You can try to use the drives with the interposer board on them but I am not sure if it will see the drive & boot them up. The issue is that the drives that are on the approved list have a dell firmware on the drives that is seen by the MD so it knows to power it on. With drives that are not on the list & are not dell drives you can attempt to see if the drive will spin up & get seen but most cheaper drives when you put them in to an MD will light up for a few seconds then power off the drive as it doesn’t recognize the firmware on the drive. You can search on the web for a dell reseller that sells drives off the approved list at a cheaper prices and those will work in an MD.
Please let us know if you have any other questions.
TorstenK
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March 13th, 2013 17:00
normal SATA devices are working here very well on MD1000 (u should take Raid Editions anyway)
Maybe you should not use drives >1000GB for that is not supported afaik.
We have here 15 Drives WD1003FBYX in an "out of any support" MD1000 Enclosure on a PERC 5/E Controller in an PE2900 working fine. (there were also SATA drives within the enclosure before) PERC 5/E and PE2900 firmware revision is latest. MD1000... dont know atm :)
normally you have a backplane which is compatible to SAS & SATA as well for SATA Backplanes / Ports do not support SAS drives.
it might be a firmware issue with the MD1000 / Raidcontroller since customers were not happy when dell did not support foreign drives on some firmeware revisions. i think at the moment with latest firmware it should be possible to use foreign drives but i would only try that on enclosure that have no supportlevel anymore.
we use enclosures still within a support level only with dell drives, for you get a new drive on any fail within 2h, 4h or Next Business Day and you are fully supported by the dell technical support.
hope that helps
kind regards
Torsten