If you consider saying you dont care and I should go anywhere but here as not hostile you may want to re-read the definition as it is unfriendly, inhospitable, oppositional and antagonistic. It was nice to see that you edited out the name calling however. dictionary.reference.com/browse/hostile

I considered your comment hostile, and the post of yours I linked had to do with hostility on SF. And now you're resorting to name calling...

@Sven, it seems rather ironic you would say that, and post this as well meta.serverfault.com/questions/2341/…

I can understand and agree with the idea that you would want to do something as close to production as possible, but not everyone can afford the hardware (or power bill) involved for a 3 node vSphere cluster. Doing things like this IMO is one of the selling points of virtualization.

You clearly did not read the blog article. It says they are not recommended when they can provide a "laundry list" of results or when they are only valid for a very specific point in time. Considering that Seagate disks have supported this feature for a very long time would not qualify as either a laundry list or a very specific point in time. Please explain specifically how it the blog post says it is not allowed.

@Wesley, to address your edit the blog post explicitly states that shopping lists are acceptable in certain circumstances. It says they are not acceptable when they could provide a laundry list, but are when I "ask us what you need to learn to tell what you should buy." Since these features are generally not advertised such as Seagate's Verify On Write setting, asking which few vendors do support them does certainly qualify as being acceptable according to the blog entry.

@Iain, it was not unanswerable, in fact one person provided a answer to half of my question. My bounty was not removed until I had said that I would award it to him. Presumably as a vindictive act.

The policy was explained in the blog post. It says they aren't allowed because it could cause a "laundry list" of answer. As it was proven by myself and other commentators in the question, this was a very obscure feature that few if any vendors would support, and as such was inherently incapable of qualifying as being off topic for that reason.

@Basil The blog about shopping post says the former question is unacceptable because it "provides the path of least resistance: a laundry list of products I can buy without thinking about it too much". The features I listed a very obscure and were incapable of providing a laundry list. The very fact that no one was able of offering single RAID controller which did further proves my point.

The blog post says the former is unacceptable because it "provides the path of least resistance: a laundry list of products I can buy without thinking about it too much". The features I listed are very obscure and were could not qualify has having a laundry list of answers. The very fact that no one was able of offering single RAID controller which had those features further proves my point.

How is asking about features of storage sub-systems off topic or abusive?