OT: Dell disks

[Michael Butash]

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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> Keith Smith
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> --- On *Mon, 6/18/12, Mark Jarvis /<m.jarvis at cox.net>/* wrote:
>
>
>     From: Mark Jarvis <m.jarvis at cox.net>
>     Subject: OT: Dell disks
>     To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>     Date: Monday, June 18, 2012, 10:05 PM
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>     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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