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    Samsung MZ-WLR30

    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
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    Latest firmware for HGST Helium drives?

    SAS drives done give you smart data like sata does. it has 0 defects though.
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    Latest firmware for HGST Helium drives?

    sorry can. i dunno about cross flashing i doubt it. not easily anyway. its no differant to cross flashing any other rebadged drive.
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    Latest firmware for HGST Helium drives?

    EMC Clarrion. they can have odd configs i think
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    Fujitsu DX Series

    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...
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    NetApp drive fails to read/write

    When i tested a load of these the write speed was 45mb for some reason. but they did test
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    RAID Controllers and 520-Byte Sectors/T-10 DIF Protection

    yes netapp call it "data protection" but generally its called "protection information" PI. i think generally its optional.
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    What is the condition of used HGST HUH721010ALE601 10 TB Helium drives sold on eBay?

    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.
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    SAS disks vs. SATA connectors. How does it work?

    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.
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    SAS disks vs. SATA connectors. How does it work?

    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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    SAS disks vs. SATA connectors. How does it work?

    one thing im curious on is the sas ssd's that also have the u.2 connector, but dont require a u.2 connection to work. Like the "SDLL1MLR-038T-CDA1"
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    DotHill AssuredSAN DBB Ultra 48 Bay

    for how rare they are the price they go for, its probably not worth it.
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    IBM V7000 G2

    when it came to the Gen1 differant chassis were needed for differant controllers. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/flashsystem-7x00/8.4.x?topic=r-control-enclosure-hardware-components-gen2gen2 you may want to look up the part number of the chassis and compare it to the controllers
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    IBM V7000 G2

    error 503 is incorrect enclosure
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    Updating the HGST HDD & SSD firmware

    has anyone come across 7J0 fw for the HUH728080AL5201 ?
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    IBM LTO 5 standalone drive in TS3100 Tape Library?

    you would need to be able to edit the vpd, which isnt easily done. also the dip switch on the bottom of the drive needs changing.
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    HP MSL2024 Encryption Lock

    did you try 8 zeroes or 42311324 as the password?
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    Whats the deal with U.2 enterprise SSDs selling so cheap?

    the sooner they move on to U.3 the better.