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So this is like Protection information/Data assurance

Yeah it sounds like you just connected a server to another server

you can try here https://mega.nz/folder/UGpUEKaI#nZvvDZvbSnP4_LUej48kTA

Hi all Has anyone come across the Samsung PM1733a NVME's before. i have only found one tool that give any information about the drive. Samsungs own tools dont support it. Cheers

SAS drives done give you smart data like sata does. it has 0 defects though.

sorry can. i dunno about cross flashing i doubt it. not easily anyway. its no differant to cross flashing any other rebadged drive.

EMC Clarrion. they can have odd configs i think

Hi all Has anyone any knowledge on fujitsu arrays. i have the DX100 S3 which maybe has similaries with netapp. issue i have is drive get error "0x0064". im wondering if they need zeroing if they are netapp based. Edit i worked it out, i turned on write caching" to test them. but it needs to...

When i tested a load of these the write speed was 45mb for some reason. but they did test

yes netapp call it "data protection" but generally its called "protection information" PI. i think generally its optional.

They probably use hard disk sentinal for the drive health and just wipe the disk. And prefer to sale in bulk and if a couple fail, just refund.

Yes

i had 70 to unlock, its just when it came to testing them 8 at a time some dropped off, thought it may have been the top layer of pins causing an issue. but i think some are just faulty.

U.2 is PCIe. https://www.amphenol-cs.com/product-series/sas-pci-express.html i have been having issues with drive dropping offline or not coming ready and wondered if it was to do with the connector.

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