Well, I found out that using the Hitachi 5K3000 drives with my Highpoint 3520 SATAII RAID card causes a 3 minute hang during boot at classPNP.sys. This could have become a problem when I migrated from RAID5 to RAID6, but is not acceptable. The PC does boot, and the RAID array works fine. But nobody likes these kind of flaws in their system.
I contacted support, and they stated they will not address the compatibility issue for the 35XX cards, only for their newer 43XX (SAS) and 27XX (SATA III) cards.
The 35XX series of cards is only 3 years old. I find this lack of support by Highpoint unacceptable, and is, to me, an indication that they are not a serious, quality vendor that may be relied upon. I think rather than take the easy route and switch my array to a newer Highpoint card I will select a vendor that can be trusted to support their hardware.
[NOTE: This series of posts was moved out of the Hitachi Harddisks thread for obvious reasons]
I contacted support, and they stated they will not address the compatibility issue for the 35XX cards, only for their newer 43XX (SAS) and 27XX (SATA III) cards.
The 35XX series of cards is only 3 years old. I find this lack of support by Highpoint unacceptable, and is, to me, an indication that they are not a serious, quality vendor that may be relied upon. I think rather than take the easy route and switch my array to a newer Highpoint card I will select a vendor that can be trusted to support their hardware.
[NOTE: This series of posts was moved out of the Hitachi Harddisks thread for obvious reasons]
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