SUMMARY: E450 and 73GB or 36GB disk

[Andrew Watkins]

Well,

A certain YES is the answer. People are using them with no problems,
so if you are happy not to have them maintained by SUN then go for it.

Main points:

- many companies sell them.  
http://www.transtec.co.uk/GB/E/products/diskstorage/internaldisksubsystems/forsu
n/forenterprise3000etc..html?fsid=23790798dc088a707b5238d7ed68c781

- You can have different size disks in the same server
- Veritas VM / DiskSuite is happy with them
- The general feeling that bigger disks will work in Sun machines, but Sun
only supports disks which it can guarantee will work.


Thanks to:

"Jim Leppert"
joe_fletcher
Emmanuel Guisse
Hichael Morton
McAleavy, Allan A
David Foster
Scott Spencer

Original question:
 
> I am about to buy some more disks to fill up our E450, but
> I am trying decide to go for Sun support 36GB disks or non
> sun supported 73GB disks.
> 
> I have seen similar questions on the list before but never any summaries,
> so the 2 question are:
> 
> 1) do 73GB disks work in a E450 any problems?
> 
> 2) I may use Solstice DiskSuite/Solaris Volume Manager to combine disks, but 
> 	again has any one used 73GB disks with this? I guess if I go for 73G
> 	disks then I may not bother with this!
> 	
> 	
> In advance thanks,
>

Andrew Watkins
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