From: Paul Gress on
On 08/ 2/10 02:35 AM, David Combs wrote:
> Subj: Blade-100. Sun says "the (two) INTERNAL disks are limited to 20G each"
>
> Some months ago I asked about putting in 50gig drives instead.
>
> Some people said that it oughta work just fine.
>
> (and some others disagreed)
>
> Question: what's the consensus now? Blade 100.
>
> And now how about 80 or so gigs? Or even 150G, say.
>
> ---
>
> Question: how MUCH over the 20-gig sun-stated-limit can
> a replacement disk be?
>
> Like, a 160g disk? (two of them, one for each internal)
>
>
> Note: a technical answer is ok -- I have a hardware expert
> (Suns) here visiting, and he wanted me to ask this question --
> with 160 being the disk he's looking at (on the net).
>


There is about a 100gig limit for each hard drive using the internal controller. The only way to use larger hard drives is to install another controller card.


Paul