Many thanks for the reply Geoff, I'll try with SATA II drives instead.

Mark

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

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.

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?