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IBM x3650 - Installing non-IBM HDD

Hello All,

I've got a really old IBM x3650 with a failed disk and the server is out of warranty. Replacing that one 250GB disk with an IBM genuine disk is going to cost me twice as much more than buying six basic Seagate 1 TB disks and creating a new extremely larger array.

Is it possible for me to merely take the old disks out of their caddies and put in the standard disks? The RAID controller inst going to be locked to IBM genuine or some other nonsense?

As the server is on the old side of things, are there any gotchas I should plan to avoid?

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Thanks all for the feedback.

I went ahead and got the standard Seagate drives.

Apart from having to update the BIOS, BMC and RAID controller firmware to the latest versions - it worked flawlessly.

I suspect the RAID controller was mainly unhappy with the size of the drives - as the version of controller BIOS was quite old.

David

ANY HDD will work just fine when you don't have to deal with error recovery scenarios such as recovered and unrecoverable read and write errors.

This is why there is a perception that all HDDs are basically the same. Well, back up often, and keep multiple copies to guard against bit rot & silent data corruption.