Is Ultra 3 SCSI also LVD?

[Mitchydkid]

Ok,
I know more about women than I do about SCSI (and its very hard to believe I know ANYTHING about women.) I have been tasked with buying a SCSI HDD for my company's server. I have found drives that claim to be compatible with my Dell server, but they are Ultra 3 and I have been told to use LVD. I don't know what I am doing, and my searches on the internet have revealed nothing.

Please give me a quicky education.
Thanks
Dale

 

[Dameon]

In a word YES. Call tech support, have the service tag of the system you want to add a drive to, and then can give you the SKU # for a replacement drive kit which includes the little black carrier for the drive to sit in. If you call spare parts and order a drive, you will get just the bare naked drive, and not the carrier.

Main reason - disk rpm on all the drives is important - can't mix speeds in a RAID 5 array (7200 vs 10000 rpm drives) Ultra 2 / Ultra 3 are both LVD, but just plain SCSI 3 is normally slower.

 

[Mitchydkid]

Thanks man,
Sometimes it is scarey to think I am stearing this ship.
Dale

 

[Smbu]

You should check out this site for info on scsi. U2W and U160 drives are LVD I believe.