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Re: Use mixed sizes drives in the same Raid string

John,

The 70 GB Drive statement is accurate however these would be SCSI drives rather than SAS drives so they wouldn't easily migrate to POWER7 in any case. You would need to purchase an EXP24 drawer and new external RAID card to drive that in order to move even these 70GB drives to a POWER7 machine. In other words the use of 35s or 70s in this case isn't really impacted by a future move to POWER7.

- DrFarnken

On 4/15/2010 10:39 AM, John Jones wrote:
It may not matter to your client, but if they are contemplating moving to a
Power7 system in the not-too-distant future, the Power7 550 does not support
drives smaller than 70GB (internally or in a rack/side car). I don't see
any reason to believe the 720, or whatever the 520's replacement will be
called, will be different.

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Marco Facchinetti<
marco.facchinetti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



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