Posts made by xByteSean

If you are trying to update the firmware on the raid card my best suggestion would be to do it through the lifecycle controller. Reboot the server and during post after the Dell splash screen in the top right corner you will see some option via key commands. Hit F10 to boot to system services. Once you've entered the system services/lifecycle controller environment you should be in the gui with a list of options on the left. Choose platform update, follow the on screen instructions to update the firmware for all the components you want, specifically the raid card. I haven't heard of drives being blocked before and I don't know the specifics of the drives you bought, but any we sell should be compatible with what I am assuming is and H-Series raid card you should have in your system.

@BRRABill Yes as a matter of fact we do. Any proof of concept box can be configured and shipped to you, and if it didn't fit your needs we would provide the return shipping label at no cost to you.

Yes we have seen one fail and flash the led amber. Never good when you see that yellow flashing light lol. But Edge has done a really good job to engineer the firmware to behave exactly like a Dell drive would. The likely hood of and SSD failing is very low, but like anything else, it can happen from time to time.

If the drive has failed completely, it will no longer be part of the array it was configured in and from what i have seen it will then be offline. If it's an impending failure, such as SMART errors detection, the drive will still be online, but would still need to be replaced immediately. All of the same behavior you would get out of a Dell drive would apply to the Edge drives, except for that pesky OMSA warning. Also, if you didnt already know you can always run the hardware diagnostics on the server upon bootup by hitting F10 to enter the lifecycle controller bios. Hardware diagnostics is one of the options in that bios and runs a test on any hard drive installed in the system.

@Dashrender, ah, ok to answer that yes if the led is flashing amber typically this indicates the drive has already failed, or SMART detection has been triggered so the drive will inevitably fail. In either situation the drive is put offline, so you loose that drive in the array. Also, yes you can absolutely set up email alerts for hardware failures/impending failure alerts. I believe OMSA has some of this functionality, but also through the iDrac interface can alerts be set up. Hope that answers it more clearly.

To add to the thread here, as many have already said any non-Dell enterprise class hard drive will show in OMSA as non-Dell with a yellow triangle exclamation point icon. This can be safely ignored if the drive has a green led and is being recognized by the raid controller and configurable. With that said, it is not really recommended to use consumer level parts on a Dell server as all support goes out the window, and typically the consumer ssd's will not have the longevity of the enterprise class ones. Its a situation of "it may work, but your kind of rolling the dice". Here at xByte we do sell Edge/xByte Branded ssd's at great prices to help save some cash on those really expensive enterprise class ssd hard drives. xByte works with edge to make sure these drives are compatible, and they even do extensive testing with our servers to verify they work.

Adding to what @todd-at-xByte said, our selection of Edge Drives are a great selection for either 11th or 12th gen dell servers when running the H series raid cards. Your going to be getting 6Gbps throughput on either the H700 series, or the newer H710 series cards as long as your running 6Gbps drives on the backplane. Generally i would never mix SAS and SATA on the same backplane because in my experience i have seen higher failure rates on hard drives being mixed because of the different voltages needed to run both types of drives. To answer your original question @creayt, if the 850 Pros are recognized by the backplane and raid controller, depending on the controller, they will negotiate either 3Gbps (sas 6/ir) or 6Gbps (H-series cards). This is all dependent on them even being recognized though, as they will not have the Dell enterprise firmware on them which is truly needed to be compatible.