Re: Storage server

[Kelly Clowers <kelly.clowers@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
> On 9/13/2012 5:20 AM, Veljko wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 08:34:51AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>>> One of the big reasons (other than cost) that I mentioned this card is
>>> that Adaptec tends to be more forgiving with non RAID specific
>>> (ERC/TLER) drives, and lists your Seagate 3TB drives as compatible.  LSI
>>> and other controllers will not work with these drives due to lack of
>>> RAID specific ERC/TLER.
>>
>> Those are really valuable informations. I wasn't aware that not all
>> drives works with RAID cards.
>
> Consumer hard drives will not work with most RAID cards.  As a general
> rule, RAID cards require enterprise SATA drives or SAS drives.

They don't work with real hardware RAID? How weird! Why is that?


Thanks,
Kelly Clowers