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July 17th, 2007 08:00

Has anyone tested MD1000 with 1TB drive?

Has anyone or Dell tested the recently released Seagate Barracuda® ES.2  SATAII and SAS 1TB Hard Drives in MD1000 or MD3000?
 
Does Dell plan to officially support 1TB drives with MD1000 and MD3000 soon?
 
Thanks!

tommo666

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July 17th, 2007 21:00

Dell will code the firmware to support large disks. Then test the firmware. Then they will butcher hard drives in a lab enviroment first to ensure stability. Once they are satisfied that they can release the new disks with a high percentage of uptime/reliabilty and minimal support. They will place them on their road map.
 
This can take a while, EMC have only just qualified 750gb sata for some of their product line and have also announced raid 6 support on some CX boxes, when this has been available for over a year on other products.
 
Dell is an early adopter of new technology but any additions to existing lines are rigorously tested first.
 
It takes time.
 
 

Dell-Jeff G

156 Posts

July 20th, 2007 14:00

The supported hard drives are listed on the MD Support Matrix located here.
As of today, the largest hard drive supported is the Seagate SATA 750 GB 7.2K RPM.

feusnerm

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August 17th, 2007 20:00

Hi Jeff, Is that to say that 1TB drives will not function at all, or that they might work but would be unsupported? We are thinking about buying a PowerEdge 2900 to set up a RAID 5 with 1TB SATA disks. Thanks!!

maxusa

63 Posts

September 3rd, 2007 03:00

We're evaluating the MD1000 for maximum capacity. Are there any plans/qualifications being worked on for 1TB drives? We are looking at Hitachi Ultrastar A7K1000, p/n HUA721010KLA330. Can anyone confirm or deny?

Dev Mgr

9.3K Posts

September 3rd, 2007 05:00

If you want an official word, you'll probably have to wait till you see it on the support matrix.

maxusa

63 Posts

September 3rd, 2007 06:00

Unofficial but credible would suffice.

feusnerm

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September 4th, 2007 16:00

If it's any help, we're interested in the Deskstar 7K1000, HDS721010KLA330. Any thoughts on why these drives wouldn't work?? I'd be surprised to hear that the firmware is hard-coded to support each of those drives on the support matrix individually. Thanks Matt Feusner

maxusa

63 Posts

September 4th, 2007 16:00

Or, for that matter, if Dell likes Seagate more, p/n ST31000640NS and ST31000340NS for 16/32MB buffer SATA. Anyone?

maxusa

63 Posts

September 17th, 2007 08:00

Any info?

Dev Mgr

9.3K Posts

September 17th, 2007 11:00

If your company is going to depend on a setup where they put their important data, would you want to be a 'test-subject', or would you rather prefer to run a setup that's been tested and validated to be reliable?

If you need more storage space, you could daisy chain another MD1000 off of your existing MD1000 (can stack 3 of them on 1 chain and each PERC5e has 2 connectors, yielding a maximum of 6 MD1000's off of a single PERC5e).

B_Segurson

107 Posts

September 23rd, 2007 21:00

I don't think you will get an official answer from Dell until the product is ready to release.  Michael Dell said something like this in the recent MD3000i announcement in his webcast.  Dell's policy is to announce when they are ready to deliver.
 
That being said - you can answer your own question on "if" by noting that Dell is keeping up with disk technology on an ongoing basis.   The "when" question will be dependent on getting any new generation bugs resolved, and reliability up to a high standard before starting to ship.

maxusa

63 Posts

September 24th, 2007 10:00

Thanks for your plugging in. It is okay to hope. I wonder if anyone has tested 1TB drives successfully in a MD1000.

maxusa

63 Posts

October 2nd, 2007 04:00

Anyone?

RHill111

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April 3rd, 2008 21:00

Was this topic ever finished?  I know that Dell supports 1TB drives now, but still am looking for the model number and type of drive approved.

 

Thanks,

 

levay

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July 22nd, 2008 01:00

Did anyone find an answer to this?  Are we really locked into Dell's "supported" drives or can we get other drives to work such as:

SEAGATE ST31000340AS 1TB SATA 7200 RPM 32MB Hard Drive
WESTERN DIGITAL WD10EACS 1TB SATA 7200 RPM 16MB

 

Is this possible or can we only use drives from the "supported" list?  Will these drives really be marked as "uncertified" and in turn unusable?  

 

Thanks!

 

 

 

 

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