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ElCoyote_ replied to the thread NVMe with Dell R440 PE Servers.@BashedRoot You can't use U.2 drives in the SAS/SATA front bays of an R440 but the 870 EVO drives will work just fine in the 2.5 bays... -
ElCoyote_ replied to the thread Help: Are those SN200 HGST (Cisco) Bricked?.A little update: - The drives had gone to Diagnostics mode. We got them out of Diagnostics mode with: dm-cli capture-diagnostics -p...
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ElCoyote_ replied to the thread Help: Are those SN200 HGST (Cisco) Bricked?.Correction: T640: Green stays solid, Amber blinks 16x, recognised by BIOS Setup, Capacities show Serial # instead, Slot 5 shows 122, 1-4...
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ElCoyote_ posted the thread Help: Are those SN200 HGST (Cisco) Bricked? in Hard Drives and Solid State Drives.A friend of mine (also a T640 user) got those of these cards: # nvme list Node SN Model...
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ElCoyote_ replied to the thread Dell PowerEdge T640 as a Workstation : Powerful and Silent..Yeah, stupid over-zealous over-cautious T640 iDRAC.. Sorry, I had not realized you already had the mid-tray fans and that the iDRAC...
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ElCoyote_ replied to the thread Dell PowerEdge T640 as a Workstation : Powerful and Silent..Hi @nilaykmrsr I have an extra T640 mid-fan tray (ordered in April of 2020 before my T640 came -with- its own mid-tray) if you'd like to...
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ElCoyote_ replied to the thread Dell PowerEdge T640 as a Workstation : Powerful and Silent..Hi @nilaykmrsr my T640 came with the mid-case fan tray (it happens when you order 18 x 3.5 configs). The mid-tray I have is 06KK42. If...
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ElCoyote_ replied to the thread 8 x SSD drives in a Dell PowerEdge T140 in place of 4 x 3.5 HDDs... Need Y PCIe 6pin adapter.@sonkam I use 2Tb 870 disks in all of my Poweredges as their bootdisk (and homes, software, etc..), they're very reliable and don't...
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ElCoyote_ replied to the thread 8 x SSD drives in a Dell PowerEdge T140 in place of 4 x 3.5 HDDs... Need Y PCIe 6pin adapter.Yes, 4x2.5 SSDs in the 3.5 disk slots will be easy (and there are even brackets on amazon to make install easy).. No idea about the DVD...
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ElCoyote_ replied to the thread Those HGST 3.84Tb SN260 drives and Cisco firmware....Also, I'm not a firmware person. I am -very- relieved this small hack worked and that it did not kill the drives. They appear to work...
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ElCoyote_ replied to the thread Those HGST 3.84Tb SN260 drives and Cisco firmware....Issue #3 : The resulting firmware is not accepted by the 'nvme' utility. Solution #3: Please forgive me... but it worked. Here's what I...
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ElCoyote_ replied to the thread Those HGST 3.84Tb SN260 drives and Cisco firmware....Issue #2: What the H... is this encrypted firmware file? Solution #2: No worries, the key to decryption is on the ISO too. Once I...
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ElCoyote_ replied to the thread Those HGST 3.84Tb SN260 drives and Cisco firmware....Issue #1 : How to do I get the firmware for the drives? Solution #1: Register for an account on id.cisco.com and download the following...
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ElCoyote_ posted the thread Those HGST 3.84Tb SN260 drives and Cisco firmware... in Hard Drives and Solid State Drives.I recently got a couple HUSMR7638BHP3Y1´s ( 3.84Tb ) from ebay.. Things went fine during transport but when I got the drives, I had the...