Hello Nealus99, With EQ systems you have to use EQ drives.  If you insert a non-dell EQ drive it will power on for a few seconds and then power off  as it didn’t find the correct firmware on the drive.
Hi there, We've just received an EQ PS4210 array along with a number of Type 17 and Type 19 controllers.  This is refurbished kit and will be used as hardware spares. The array has come with 3 x 600GB 10K SAS drives.  I've inserted one of the Type 17 controllers and when I attempt to reset the array, the initialisation eventually fails.  Message in the console is: "Initializing. This may take several minutes to complete...................*** Database is not functional. The setup utility has failed.Please try again" I'm inexperienced with Equallogic arrays and as part of my research into this I note some reports that a minumum number of drives is required for initialisation to complete.  Can anyone confirm this minimum? Many thanks
Equallogic PS4210 - minimum number of disks required?