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@T_Minus You are right, I overlooked it. On the other hand I'm bit amazed. None of the HP (non SSD) SAS drives, I ever had, was formatted with 520Bps. Those were all EMC yet.

What is actual part number of your 2TB SSDs? I'd be interested in getting couple of those. Regardless if I'd need them to reformat to 512B/sector before I could use them.

@eNkrypt: As 520 bytes per sector is no valid SATA format, I don't think that you will find any SATA controller, that accepts your EMC/Samsung SSDs. AFAIS the only chance is to reformat them via a SAS controller and the SAS-to-SATA bridge, that you took off. BTW I was not successful to reformat...

Hi all out there, I'm glad to have second of eight 520B formatted SAS drives >2TB reformatting to 512B sectors right now. Even if it lasts more than one week to do all the drives, starter of this tread was the first one who told me a real way to go. So thank you very much, azev. For those, who...