upgrading PowerVault MD3220i SAN

Question

I'm looking to go the SSD route on our PowerVault MD3220i SAN and the documentation for the SAN says that the only SSDs supported are 2.5, 150GBs capacity, SAS SSDs with 3Gb/s.
My question is: does that mean I can get a 240GBs 6Gb/s SSD and it'll just simply not be able to address more than 150GBs of storage and it'll just revert back to a 3Gbs interface speed or does it actually mean that I literally can't get an SSD that exceeds 150 GBs and 3Gbs?

thanks

DELL-Sam L · Accepted Answer

Hello hyperAdmin,I am not sure which document that you are looking at as it might be a little old but you can add bigger SSD drives into the MD3220i.  Here is a link to the support matrix for the MD3220i & if you look on page 11-14 as it list all supported hard drives. ftp://ftp.dell.com/Manuals/Common/powervault-md3200_Concept%20Guide_en-us.pdf Please let us know if you have any other questions.

Dev Mgr · Accepted Answer

Note that the Powervault MD series only accepts Dell (re-)branded drives that have the firmware that is compatible with the PowerVault series.

Generic retail drives of the same main brand and model will not work.

hyperAdmin · Answer

I used the document on Dell's support website that comes up when you input your SAN's service tag. But your answer helped. thanks

Bigwil806 · Answer

As of 3/9/2017, this ftp address points to the MD3400 series. There is no mention to the MD3200 series San. fyi

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