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Totally agree, especially their idle power efficiency is unbeatable. But one moment you decide that you need 1.5TB cheap RAM, nvme backplane and 8*U.2 SSDs.

None we aware of

Last Netapp drive I bought was He12 with NA01 FW, 512b and it refused to accept generic FW and to be reformatted into 4k. Crap. I would rather buy Oracle or EMC version.

Don't worry, last time we saw these drives more than half a year ago their condition and price were exactly the same. We'll meet them again couple years later for sure! :D

try to reformat to a non standard sector size first, 4160 and then revert to 4096. It may take a while but drive will be forced to actually do something instead of just filling sectors with zeros without making any changes to the damaged layout.

No, we only have the 'insides' Don't waste your time, this will not work

model and FW please

There is a little hope of replacing the firmware, I believe you need B925 revision for this model, ask @napalm_atx if he has one to share.

Yes, Dell HBA330 doesn't have a heartbeat led

I guess that seller already tried to format them hence a good price... Your LSI controller GUI doesn't look like an HBA, but 'unconfigured good' status means the drive is not security locked or formatted with PI. Try to format it with HUGO

Depends on the firmware. They could be formattable to 512 with IBM controllers only OR they can be easily managed by any generic HBA. Give a try and share results Some IBM branded HGST drives that I have in possession arrived security locked, but easily reformattable once foreign security config...

But yikes, Xeon 6140 for $30 is only 10% slower... :rolleyes:

Prices already started climbing although you can still buy Gold 6132 twice as cheap as 2690v4. Servers availability for SP is a different story, 1U barebones price very seldom drops down to $200 but if you are lucky to get one, you'll get dual 10GbE (X550) or even 25GbE LOM for free (instead of...

think twice, only 2933 available at the moment

your drives come from EMC Clariion storage and formatted with 520bps - you can tell this from the difference in size 1862 GB vs 1833 GB. You'll need an hba to reformat and reflash drives to stock firmware as described here

3 dimms per channel is always a severe loss in speed and you can do nothing about it

Here, M*19 for 630. You'll need to install storage executive to send it to SSD

That is how background medium scan works in Ultrastars. Loud head movement each 4-5 seconds. And that's why I prefer SAS drives. Disable BMS using sdparm and enjoy the silence.

This translates to 3TB per CPU, not every xeon is ready to cope with that amount of RAM

I've never ever seen a Cisco drive with hard-locked to 520 bytes firmware or with limited functionality. Firmware packs available online, come in unencrypted .iso and cover hundreds of drive models. One of the home-lab friendliest vendor. Some of my HGST drives with cisco firmware I...