On Thu, June 30, 2016 4:38 pm, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Valeri Galtsev wrote:
On Thu, June 30, 2016 2:59 pm, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I've been googling, and haven't yet found the answer: does anyone here know if a MegaRAID SAS 2008 (falcon) (rev 03) can handle drives bigger than 2TB?
One way to find out is to plug 4TB drive and take a look. Another is to ask one who has the same controller to do the same for you. I am going to play with similar on one of my machine, but it sounds like my controller is different: in my case lspci gives me:
<snip> Yeah, I know. Thanks - unfortunately, their hot-swap drive bays are full. However, after I posted it, it finally percolated through my brain that they were still under warranty (5 yrs is what we buy), so I just called Dell, and am told they'll do 4TBs. Now, that, I assume, means they'll take larger, but he's researching it for me to be sure.
With larger drives, say 8 TB, you may want to pay attention to drive format (namely, 4Kn may be not supported by that particular controller).
Just my $0.02.
Valeri
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