John R Pierce wrote: > On 2/12/2015 12:32 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> I finally talked to Dell, and was told, and I quote, >> <...> three terabyte drives aren't supported the raid controller >> installed in this server, the SAS 6 i/r. > > the SAS 6/iR is a LSI SAS 1068E chip, kind of an old chip (the 1068 > stuff was long ago replaced by 2008, 2308, and now 30xx stuff). The SAS > 6/iR Dell article I'm looking at is from May 2008. There were no 3TB > drives 7 years ago. True. However, vendors will try to sell what systems they have in stock, until they either run out of them, or someone decides they're too old. Plus, I'm 100% sure that a lot of folks here are still running older hardware, just as we are. mark