Sun E450 Hard Disk Capacities

[zeki1]

I want to buy a Sun E450 Server to play around with. However, I need to know if it can take the newer 73gig Hard Disks or if I should stick with the old 36gig HDD's?

The server I have my eye on at the moment already has 2x18gig HDD's but I need at least 100gig in order to install my ERP application.

Thanks for your help.

Zeki

 

[alray]

zeki1, if you check this out :-

http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_private/Systems/E450/spec.html

it confirms that the E450 will take 36GB but not 72GB disks

Ray

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[zeki1]

Thanks for the reply Ray. Someone else has told me that Sun OS 10 can be configured to use ZFS, and if I do this then the limits speciified by Sun will not matter. Basically ZFS will allow me to use the 73gig HDD.

Can anyone confim if this is the case? I don't want to buy a bunch of HDD then find out I can't use them.

Zeki

 

[GunnarD]

Don't think the limit is in OS or filesystem, the limitations is in the hardware.