topic Re: MSA 2000fc compatible HDDs in HPE EVA Storage

MSA 2000fc compatible HDDs

ValeriSh — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:33:37 GMT

Hello.

I have a MSA 2000fc G2 with a mix of 5x300 GB SAS and 5x750 GB SATA drives. Due to some misfortune, some of SATA drives became unusable and need to be replaced. Also I thought about SAS drives upgrade. I asked one of the local HP partners and they offered me 600 GB SAS and 2 TB SATA. I checked MSA 2000fc G2 specification and did not found any information about compatibility with such drives, the largest compatible ones were 300 GB SAS and 1 TB SATA. But the spec looks outdated.

So my question is: what actually largest HDDs of both types are supported by MSA 2000fc G2?

Re: MSA 2000fc compatible HDDs

SUBHAJIT KHANBARMAN_1 — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:54:11 GMT

Yes 600GB SAS and 2TB SATA supported by MSA2000 fc array. Please find the following,

AP860A-> HP P2000 600GB 3G SAS 15K 3.5 inch LFF DP ENT HDD

AW556A-> HP P2000 2TB 3G SATA 7.2K 3.5 inch LFF DP HDD

Please find the link to get the required information,

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/13187_div/13187_div.html

Please let me know if you need any more information.

Re: MSA 2000fc compatible HDDs

ValeriSh — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:49:28 GMT

I did some tests and found that 2TB SATA drives were successfully recognized and I was able to create a RAID vdisk on them.