On Thu, 18 May 2006, Peter Tribble wrote:

> In article <Pine.LNX.4.63.0605180456220.27080@anahata.ma.ic.a c.uk>,
> andy thomas <andy@ic.ac.uk> writes:
>> Someone has suggested to me that the largest disk that can be fitted to a
>> StorEdge A5000 FC AL 14-bay disk array is 36.4 GB. Can anyone confirm
>> this, or is this limit based on the largest disk available at the time the
>> A5000 was sold?
>
> I've got some 72G (1 inch, even) drives in one here.

That's good news, I'll buy a secondhand one and see. Perhaps even 146 GB
will work.

>> I've found with a lot of older Sun equipment that the maximum SCSI disk
>> size quoted in the specs is historical and that you can in fact fit the
>> largest disks available today (in most cases).
>
> Mostly. Sun will tell you what's supported, which tends to be a
> restricted list. Quite a lot of larger/newer drives will work, and
> that's fine if you're not bothered about support.

I've an E150 with 12 x 300 GB disks - the original spec for this elderly
server was 9.1 GB maximum :-)

Andy