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?
mark
3 thoughts on - OT: Hardware, MegaRAID SAS 2008 (falcon)
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:
01:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 1078
(rev 04
)
Subsystem: Dell PERC 6/i Integrated RAID Controller
Sorry, can’t answer the question, only what I would do – just my poor experientalist’s approach…
Valeri
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Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247
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The following sources say, yes >2TB drives are supported with the latest firmware [0]. Might not be able to get past 3TB drives though [1].
Those PERC controllers are limited at supporting 2TB disks.
Thanks, Mike. Hadn’t chance to do it, so I’m still to discover that. That said, I’ve heard someone mentioned he/she just flashed these with LSI
firmware making then not tweaked by Dell PERC ones and got what one gets on LSI controllers… I hope, OP has got his answer (from Dell Support, I
believe).
Valeri
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Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 thoughts on - OT: Hardware, MegaRAID SAS 2008 (falcon)
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:
01:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 1078
(rev 04
)
Subsystem: Dell PERC 6/i Integrated RAID Controller
Sorry, can’t answer the question, only what I would do – just my poor experientalist’s approach…
Valeri
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The following sources say, yes >2TB drives are supported with the latest firmware [0]. Might not be able to get past 3TB drives though [1].
[0]
https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/ibm-serveraid-m1015-lsi-megaraid-9220-8i-maximum-hdd-size.2648/#post-23454
[1]
https://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic767.msg121130#msg121130
Those PERC controllers are limited at supporting 2TB disks.
Thanks, Mike. Hadn’t chance to do it, so I’m still to discover that. That said, I’ve heard someone mentioned he/she just flashed these with LSI
firmware making then not tweaked by Dell PERC ones and got what one gets on LSI controllers… I hope, OP has got his answer (from Dell Support, I
believe).
Valeri
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++