So far these drives worked EMC KTN-STL15, Supermicro SC837 (SAS2 with multipath) and only one of my NetApp 4243, which I believe is more recent than the others.
With Zoned I/O, btrfs functionality is broken in some cases. You can write once and read many times but delete does not work most of the time.
This is amazing price, no sales tax as well. Pricing on this site is weird. Everything else is super expensive:
ime a lot of these companies are so busy that their web sites are not regularly able to keep up with their ebay, etc. But you can call them and do business that way. I can't use these drives, but they seem legit and they have a lot in inventory according to their site so would be interesting to know how an order goes.
No, i meant the HBA you're using. Since you said it needed to be "modern"
For HBAs check datasheets for each hba for hm smr support. You need at least SAS3 era cards but not all sas3 era hbas support hm smr.
That's weird, I created an account a week or two ago and it worked fine (and I have the drive running on my system now). Their website is indeed from 1999 or so, you are emailed your account info and password in the clear after you register.
Yeah it was fine. They were fine. I liked that I didn't have to pay sales tax.
Just because they didn't collect the tax doesn't mean you don't owe it as many states have a 'use tax' that is due if you don't pay sales tax. And states are starting to enforce this so just be careful. Auditors love to come and check the books a couple of years after they know someone has been doing this to rack up healthy penalties and interest.
What you say is completely true.
Glad you're aware of this whole thing.
On the IL state return, they have a similar option. I think a lot of states are moving to this since a lot of people that know they have done it once or twice will pay up and avoid an audit--and that probably exceeds the cost of the tax as well as an audit so win-win from a financial perspective even though its a bit of a 'pay us and we won't audit you' type of workaround that is a bit dubious imo, but I'm a stickler for 'by the book'.