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November 21st, 2014 13:00
EQL Hard Drive Order Question
Hi,
We are ordering extra hard drives since Dell cannot guarantee four hour parts delivery where the SAN is located. The SAN model I'm curious about is the PS6100E and the hard drives that's currently in the SAN are 3 TB 7.2k SAS HDD. The Dell rep who is quoting me the hard drives said that they do not have any of those hard drives so he's quoting me out 4 TB hard drives.
Will that cause any issues?
Thank you!
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November 21st, 2014 13:00
Dell Support send us 900GB instead 600GB SAS and they told us this dont cause any kind of problem. Also for the older PS5000 they send us drives from a different vendor as a replacement.
EQL is "traditional" so the smallest drives specified the usable capacity. This would be different in a Compellent SAN which can give some headache if you have different disk sizes within a tier.
SANHQ may report "mixed" disk size for an member.
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Joerg
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November 24th, 2014 05:00
Thank you very much! I was a little skeptical about the validity of mixing different size hard drives in the SANs... Is there a way to validate which hard drives are compatible? Like a list or something that I can look at?