Issues with non-HP harddisk in HP ML 350 server?

Posted by Torben Warberg Rohde on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Torben Warberg Rohde
Published on 2010-05-19T20:05:15Z Indexed on 2010/05/19 20:11 UTC
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I'm looking to buy some extra disk space for a HP ML 350 G5 server. It is for simple file-serving - not OS/system stuff. HP harddisks are insanely expensive, so I'm tempted to buy some other brand instead. I have heard that they sometime use special firmware on their disks, but I suspect that might just be HP spreading rumors to sell disks.

Does anyone have experience using non-HP disks? Any features not working, or not being able to build the RAID at all?

I'm looking at 2.5" SAS Seagate drives - Constellation 500 GB (7.2k) or Savvio 600 GB (10k).

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