On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 10:12 PM, X4 User wrote:
> I am bumping this thread because I too have the same question ... can I put
> modern 3TB disks (hitachi deskstars) into an old x4500 ?
I have 8 x 3TB drives (Deskstar 5k3000) attached to a Supermicro
AOC-SAT2-MV8 and it works fine. This card uses
> Did your x4500 cope with 3TB disks without any
> modifications? I heard the BIOS does not support >2TB
> disks?
We had no problems with our Sun X4500 supporting 3TB disks.
(We bought a single 3TB drive to test on the system to make sure
before buying 45 more!) Over the years, we have updated th
Did your x4500 cope with 3TB disks without any modifications? I heard the BIOS
does not support >2TB disks?
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> Oh - and as a final point - if you are planning to run Solaris on this
> box, make sure they are not the 4KB sector disks, as at least in my
> experience, their performance with ZFS is profoundly bad. Particularly
> with all the metadata update stuff...
Hitachi deskstar uses 512byte sectors
Ven
> > On 7/07/2011 3:12 PM, X4 User wrote:
> >> I am bumping this thread because I too have the
> same question ... can I put modern 3TB disks (hitachi
> deskstars) into an old x4500 ?
>
> X4500 uses the LSI 1068e. AFAIK, that HBA does not
> support disks > 2TB for all possible firmware revs.
> YMMV
2011-07-08 2:48, Richard Elling ?:
On Jul 7, 2011, at 3:33 PM, nathan wrote:
On 7/07/2011 3:12 PM, X4 User wrote:
I am bumping this thread because I too have the same question ... can I put
modern 3TB disks (hitachi deskstars) into an old x4500 ?
X4500 uses the LSI 1068e.
I think this ap
On Jul 7, 2011, at 3:33 PM, nathan wrote:
> On 7/07/2011 3:12 PM, X4 User wrote:
>> I am bumping this thread because I too have the same question ... can I put
>> modern 3TB disks (hitachi deskstars) into an old x4500 ?
X4500 uses the LSI 1068e. AFAIK, that HBA does not support disks > 2TB for a
On 7/07/2011 3:12 PM, X4 User wrote:
I am bumping this thread because I too have the same question ... can I put
modern 3TB disks (hitachi deskstars) into an old x4500 ?
If not, would the x4540 accept them ?
I'd expect they would *work* but whether it would be a good idea or not
could be deb
I am bumping this thread because I too have the same question ... can I put
modern 3TB disks (hitachi deskstars) into an old x4500 ?
If not, would the x4540 accept them ?
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