It is certainly the case. Probably more so now then years ago ... and for different reasons. Enterprise drives meet SATA or SAS standards, and besides being designed for 24x7 operation, are designed to respond differently to controllers and behave differently with respect to maintaining data in a redundant (vs standalone) environment. EVERY drive is designed for a specific purpose these days - some for low-power capacity storage in a NAS, some for high-performance access in RAID arrays, some for casual desktop/consumer use, some for fast database access, some for slower archival capacity. A little research is required to make sure you have the right tech for the right job. Use server drives in servers, NAS drives in NAS, desktop/laptop drives in desktops/laptops, etc. Using a server drive as a standalone drive in a desktop/laptop is as bad as using a desktop/laptop drive in a server ... you risk unreliability and potential data loss.
Hello I have difficulty in adding a new hard disk into my existing server. My server is R720 and with 2 virtual disk (both 3-disk raid 5, SAS HDD) I just want to add one SATA hard disk, so I insert the disk in the front and Ctrl-R into the raid configuration, press F2 to create a new VD and add the disk, check the initialization box, and after clicking ok system said the initization is completed like in 2 seconds. All these looks normal. And I pressed ESC key to exit, system told me to Ctrl-Alt-Del... ok, very good.  However, after reboot in the Raid card boot message, it says that my newly created VD02 does not have the disk, and will be remvoed. The exact message is: The following virtual disks are missing: 02 If you proceed (or load the configuration utility), these virtual disks will be removed from your configuration. If you wish to use them at a later time, they will have to be imported. If you believe these virtual disks should be present, please power off your system and check your cables to ensure all disks are present. Press any key to continue, or 'C' to load the configuration utility. Tried update raid card to latest firmware (21.3.2-0005), build a raid 1 with 2 SATA disk instead of one, replace the hard disk, build the raid using raid tool in the bios, all with the same result. I have not installed any kind of dell openmanage. Tried the blink and unblink the disk, there was no problem. And obviously I didn't unplug the disk after reboot. I read the manual again and see that SAS & SATA disks are supported simultaineously, as long as they are not in the same virtual disk. What did I miss? Any help is appreciated.
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