Are all scsi hard drives the same?

Horlock

Sounds like a stupid question so to clarify.

If I buy a HP proliant server, but then buy a dell scsi harddrive will it work, and will the dell casing for it fit a HP server?

Obviously scsi hard drives are of different sizes, and presumably different build quality - although I have no idea which brands are better than others.

Thanks

neilwoods

Not heard anyone mention a scsi drive for years, didn't know they still made them.

The server you are looking at, you sure there scsi drives.

bluesnake

They are not all the same, even they do not have all the same connections either. sometimes a conversion cable will fix this if they are the same standard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI
http://www.ahinc.com/scsi.htm

Generally speaking the old scsi are parallel, and the newer ones serial.

yes, they are still used in servers as sata do not have the speed (iops) and ssd are far too small and expensive.

Johnmcl7

neilwoods wrote: »

Not heard anyone mention a scsi drive for years, didn't know they still made them.

The server you are looking at, you sure there scsi drives.

SCSI is still standard in servers although as mentioned above it is now known as SAS - Serial Attached SCSI:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_attached_SCSI

John

Mr_Toad

Horlock wrote: »

Sounds like a stupid question so to clarify.

If I buy a HP proliant server, but then buy a dell scsi harddrive will it work, and will the dell casing for it fit a HP server?

Obviously scsi hard drives are of different sizes, and presumably different build quality - although I have no idea which brands are better than others.

Thanks

If you're buying an HP server why not buy HP disks?

Newer HPs can use SAS, SATA, Universal scsi and SSD. The last Dell I worked on used ULTRA320 scsi.

What you really need is to speak to someone who really knows.