Dell MD1400 - 3rd Party SSD support?

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Does anyone know if the Dell MD1400 series DAS supports 3rd party drives, mainly SSD from the likes of Intel or Samsung?

[zag]

I think it does yes, see the specs here

 

Dell Storage MD1400 and MD1420 12Gb SAS Direct-Attached Storage | Dell UK

[Paid_Peanuts]

Was thinking potentially a MD1400 with 12 SSD - something like the Samsung 960GB 845DC EVO 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive Mfr#: MZ-7GE960EW

After Raid 6 should give something like 9TB of very fast storage.

 

Anyone got any ideas on this principal? Anyone do anything similar?

Edited June 24, 2015 by Paid_Peanuts

[zag]

I've got 4 1tb Samsung 840s in a NAS at home, the thing absolutely flies!

 

https://zag4me.wordpress.com/2015/06/10/review-of-the-qnap-453s-pro-ssd-nas/

 

Personally now intel have brought out some bigger drives i'd look at them. The samsungs had firmware problems with older data.

Edited June 24, 2015 by zag

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I've always been a fan of both Samsung and Intel SSD.

I think in a server environment i would plump for something like the 800GB Intel DC S3510 Series 2.5" SSD, SATA III - 6Gb/s, AHCI, MLC SET NAND, 500MB/s Read, 460MB/s Write

over a model like the 850 Pro just in case of reasons like power failure.