Is the Seagate ST9900805SS supported by the PE-R610?

Hi,

Are the drives Dell drives? We only validate drives with our firmware on them.

I did but they have not replied yet.

My server is currently working with a 3 x Dell Savvio 15K.2 ST9146852SS 146GB  configured as RAID5, and 3 SATA drives configured as JBOD.

I cannot believe the cheap SATA drives work with my PERC H700 and the fancy 900GB don't.

I am thinking about trying with a single 9000GB drive. Do you think the timeout would affect a single drive operation as much as an array?

You could see if Seagate has any updates for them. While we do not block usage of non Dell drives the timeouts might not be correct for the controller and that might be why they are going offline.

No, they are not so I guess that explains why the Nautilus does not recognize the drives but shouldn't they work anyway on my R610?

My PERC H700 controller recognizes them and I am able to create virtual drives with them and initialize the VDs.

I am stuck with 4 Seagate ST9900805SS 900GB SAS drives I recently bought trying to improve my server but have been unable to use them.

Would you please advise?

Thanks!

Understood but the available firmware only works on Dell drives that's why I asked about a possible tweaking either for the drives or for the PERC H700.

BTW do you the difference apart from the firmware between my Seagate ST9900805SS and a similar model from Dell?

You can try it, it may work better.

The only public information is in the release notes for the hard drive firmware, what the actual changes are is not usually listed and the only way to make the changes is in the firmware.

I will.

Could you point out to where I can read more about the drives timeout?

Is there any way to tweak them or the PERC H700  to get everything working?

Hello,

Now, I using ST9900805SS 900GB 10K-rpm on DELL R610
I can create RAID disk group to RAID-0, RAID-5, RAID-10 and can initialization complete.

But I can't using disk, After format disk or write disk. The disk is Fault detected show on IDRAC log.

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I'm restart server, I can import disk to RAID config. No disk error. Disk is back to online.
but I using again. It's loop fail write disk same before.

How to fixed problem it.

Please help me.

Thanks.

I tried everything and was unable to get those drives working on the R610. I returned them to the seller.

I strongly suggest to get Dell-branded disk drives.

As I wrote before, I suggest to get Dell branded/certified drives.

I just got 4 of those, configure them as a RAID-5 and everything is working without any glitch.

BTW this is going to be my last post on this matter.

I'm tested on LSI 9271-8i.

It's not work.