HPE Community
Disk Enclosures
1752798 Members
6085 Online
108789 Solutions
New Discussion

Compaq Hard Drive Substitue?

 
Nathan Stipe
Occasional Advisor

‎09-15-2004 06:43 AM

‎09-15-2004 06:43 AM

Compaq Hard Drive Substitue?

Does anyone have any experience substituting other manufacturers scsi drives instead of buying compaqs specific drives? I know it is supposed to void the warranty, but do they work ok?

I have an extra compaq 532 array controller and I want to mirror a couple of 72 gig or larger non hot plug drives and use it for data. However I don't want to pay the money for the compaq drives. The only 72 gig non hot plug compaq drive I can find is in excess of $400. The part # is 332751-B21. Also I don't care if the drives operate at Ultra320, Wide Ultra3 or Wide Ultra2.

Anyone have any experience doing this?
0 Kudos
Reply
1 REPLY 1
Zygmunt Krawczyk
Honored Contributor

‎09-15-2004 07:54 AM

‎09-15-2004 07:54 AM

Re: Compaq Hard Drive Substitue?

It's not recommended to substitute HP/Compaq HDDs to be connected to SA controller. All SA controllers require HDDs with HP/Compaq firmware.

Regards,
Zygmunt
0 Kudos
Reply
The opinions expressed above are the personal opinions of the authors, not of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. By using this site, you accept the Terms of Use and Rules of Participation.