Hello,   Well unfortunately, since the 4100 series is no longer for sale, all the drives are allocated for service failures for customers.   re: OEM drives.  Drives that do not have a specific Equallogic image will NOT work in a 4100.  They will not come online.  There's also no way to convert an OEM drive to an EQL compatible drive either.  Using drives that you didn't get from Dell would very likely invalidate your contract.  Who knows where they came from.    Regards,  Don   
Hello, I think our local reseller might be trying to pull a fast one on us, and I just want to verify something with the community before I open up a can of  . We have an Equallogic PS4100XV, a few years old I agree, but it is working just fine, and we are quite happy with it. When we bought it we only filled up 6 of the 12 drive bays. Now we are running out of space so we went to our local Dell reseller to buy six more 600GB 15K SAS 3.5" drives. They told us that it is absolutely impossible to buy more disks for this machine, they refuse to sell us any and our existing support agreement with Dell would be null and void if we put drives in there from another source. They say we have no option other than to buy a brand new SAN from them. Is this even remotely correct? I believe I can just by pretty much buy any 15K SAS 3.5"drives, throw them in and all would work just fine, or am I missing something?Thank you.
Cannot Buy Drives for Older Equallogic? Really!?