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Hi all, Nytro 3330 XS7680SE70103 I have 4 of these drives all showing in HD Sentinel: "The hard disk reports the following problems: Total uncorrected read errors = 5896732" and shows health 7% critical Power on time on them is under 3 years and lifetime writes 134TB which is not much and I...

what I don't understand the drives he has are dell OEM pm1643 and still don't work in few dell server models

did you find a solution? I just realised a friend has the exact same issues with few dell servers with same sas ssds pm1643 he managed to make 2 of them work (1.92TB) (random formatting/initializing in qnap and dell servers and he can't find the exact solution) but the others (one more 1.92TB...

removed from dell servers for use in desktop PCs sorry if this doesn't help just make sure they are the correct sector formatted for your type of server / perc card

are the PM1643 formatted 520b sectors and does your server require other like 512b? I just formatted from 520b to 512b about 10x PM1643 with sg_utils I would get the same in perc card failed or blocked and I did above with h310 in IT mode

just done it again used HDM in windows this time with 2TB same model nvme HGST ssds after installing the HGST nvme windows drivers the format command is similar to linux one in my original post (I used --uid xxxx at the end not /dev/...) and the format is instant I also used sg_utils3 for SAS...

The 10cm pcie riser arrived, much better, I would have liked even shorter but I will stick with this. Photo below. I need to mod the raid card as its headsink gets too hot for my liking, need to attach some headpipes and connect them to the side panel of the case

1st update, the SSDs are too thick and probably shorted some pins on the side of the motherboard as it pushed onto them and there are lots of pins there and jumpers as it stopped working after 30min but when I removed the side panel with the SSDs started working again. I will have to put some...

Just posting my build in case anyone needs ideas, advice etc. I fitted the CPU heat pipes on one side only (5 of them instead of all 6, more than enough for a 35W CPU) and the 2x SAS ssds on the other side cooling panel as I found they get quite hot whilst testing them without the case (there...

Samsung PM1643 is SAS only not NVMe I do have HGST 7TB NVMe as per my other thread but no raid/controller card to test with but I have pcie and m.2 nvme adapters that work fine with these SSDs

just thought I disassembly one of the SSDs, as I am building a small fanless server and want to fix the SSDs to the case which acts as a giant aluminium cooling heatsink so wanted to see which side the chips are but looks like I will have to mod something for both sides, see below photos in case...

I am returning the P840 card as there are no cables to work direct with u.2 drives, needs a cage or a hp server I got a lsi 9341-8i card and waiting for the cable so I can test the ssds and raid *edit: cable received and both 15tb ssds work perfect with 9341 in raid 1 what I want

Did I make a mistake with the P840 card? I see the cable is called mini-sas double wide but I can't find anywhere from this to u.2 ssd's interface. I don't want to add extra parts as using it in a small itx server (backplane?!) Is there a cable I can buy or should I now try to resell the card...

All works fine with perc h310 :) waiting now for the hpe p840 for better speeds Any idea for HPE P840 what cables I need? If I only need it for 2 SSDs, do I plug one SSD in each physical port or both need to be in same port with a cable splitter? For the Perc card I have one cable splitter for...

I thought it is nvme not sas Thanks I do have an old perc card which should work in this case