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"Dell 6Gbps SAS HBA 2x4 port internal SAS Horizontal" should be "Dell 6Gbps SAS HBA 2x4 port external SAS" in the SAS2008 section, first line of the Dell subsection. These are simple SAS2008 cards designed to run IT mode only with 8 external ports (2 x 8088 connectors). I have one running...

Ugh, disregard, the 0F14994 drive arrived failing.

Crossflash HP HUA723020ALA640 to Hitachi FW? So I just bought on eBay a HUA723020ALA640 (2TB Ultrastar 7K3000) without looking closely enough to see that it is the HP version of the drive. I was thinking, "no big deal, I'll just flash the Hitachi firmware to it", until I saw that the part...

It may be wise to try them as-is with the existing firmware and updating if you have problems. You do always run some amount of risk of bricking drives when updating the firmware. In the case I documented above, I decided to update because the drive was exhibiting strange behavior when closely...

Not sure if anyone has noticed this before but I thought I would share for anyone searching. I bought a HDS723020BLA642 (part #0F12115) with 15,000+ hours on it on eBay. The first thing I do with something like this is do a full sequential read and write of the entire surface several times to...

So I know it sounds crazy but these appear to only use three screws per drive, at least with the version I have (plastic tray fronts). There are 6 holes in each tray/carrier. One set of 3 holes (2 on front and back on one side, 1 in the middle on the other) are drilled so that the drive is set...