Not in general dell systems/servers, don't believe they ever did. Maybe
in their DAS or Equilogic stuff they borg'd later, as most "enterprise"
vendors tend to do that. Usually just firmware disabling things like
tler function and other performance/stability tweaks, but otherwise
their systems will look for a specific hdparm flag to make sure you pay
your toll.
-mb
On 06/18/2012 10:51 PM, keith smith wrote:
>
> I have several Dells and have added HD's to 2 of them w/o any problem.
> They are a little older. Things could have changed. I'd do more due
> diligence though, just to make sure.
>
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> --- On *Mon, 6/18/12, Mark Jarvis /<m.jarvis@cox.net>/* wrote:
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>
> From: Mark Jarvis <m.jarvis@cox.net>
> Subject: OT: Dell disks
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Date: Monday, June 18, 2012, 10:05 PM
>
>
> I'm considering buying a Dell desktop (Inspiron 620), but a few
> years ago I was warned off them because Dell did something different
> to their disks so that you had to buy replacement/additional disks
> only from Dell. Any chance that it's still true?
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