Recent content by Lance Uniserve

Tried contacting Dell Pre-Sales today. they couldnt answer question so they sent me to .... wait for it ... Dell Pre-Sales. the Dell person couldnt answer the question so punted it. Let me rephrase my original question: Has anyone else used a USB 3.0 External Drive with a current generation...

that would make way too much sense. basically: they dont want to sell cheap usb external drives, they want to sell expensive storage systems.

I asked them that... tech support doesnt know; I need to contact pre-sales to find out. doing that next. but doing a search on dell website shows there are no certified external usb drives. thats why I am asking the question here :)

yes: drives work on win10 yes: there is such a thing as "Windows Server2019 certified". to me, any drive that works on win10 should also work on win2016/win2019. but, that is definitely not the case. in summary: dell has a hardware problem with usb 3.0 on there poweredge servers. but...

I agree, it is a hardware issue. but Dell has told me, they will not address a hardware issue if the hardware is not certified by the vendor (eg Seagate). back to my question: is there any external USB drives that are certified to work with windows 2016/2019?

Dell is saying they wont "support" a device on their servers unless the Vendor has formally certified the device to work with windows server.

Microsoft does not certify devices, the vendors do. So Seagate has chosen not to certify any of their external USB drives. Question still stands: does any other vendor of external USB drives certify their drives to work with Windows Server 2016/2019?

Had a very interesting email conversation with DELL support. I am using standard External USB 3.0 drives on a Windows Server 2016 PowerEdge T440. When connected to a USB 2.0 port the drives work quite well, other than being a bit slow. When connected to a USB 3.0 port the OS throws NTFS I/O...