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89giop said:
Maybe it was for the best then that I didn't buy more... I formatted netapps to 512 no problem before but didnt realise IBMs could be problematic.
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Worst case I guess you can just return it at you own Cost, and possibly incur some restocking Fee ?

30 days returns. Buyer pays for return shipping. If you use an eBay shipping label, it will be deducted from your refund amount.
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luckylinux said:
Worst case I guess you can just return it at you own Cost, and possibly incur some restocking Fee ?
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I'd have to check the terms with ebay global shipping and returns. The postage alone for one drive to Australia was about 45usd
 
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For some time now I've been buying new SSD's from amazon. Just don't like the prices and the risk of used drives on eBay.
 
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Fritz said:
For some time now I've been buying new SSD's from amazon. Just don't like the prices and the risk of used drives on eBay.
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This is great for us that needs the enterprise features. I have had great success with 99% of the used SSD's I've bought from Ebay. However when we talk about hard drives the story is completely different. Most hard drives sold on Ebay by a random seller have some kind of defects. If I buy a lot of 10 hard drives from someone, I can be sure that 1-2 hard drives have major defects and 2-4 have minor defects. So paying slightly extra from reputable sellers as serverpartdeals is definitely worth it.
 
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ca3y6 said:
would be curious thank you. My previous experience with IBM SAS were not good.
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I did a lot more research on these IBM drives after I pulled the trigger and wrorked out it was unlikely I could reformat one. (Thank you for pointing that out to me!). I ended up asking the seller if these were 512b otherwise I might want to refund them and then they just responded with "no 512b" followed by a refund.
 
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89giop said:
I did a lot more research on these IBM drives after I pulled the trigger and wrorked out it was unlikely I could reformat one. (Thank you for pointing that out to me!). I ended up asking the seller if these were 512b otherwise I might want to refund them and then they just responded with "no 512b" followed by a refund.
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After they shipped it to you :oops: ? That's wild :oops: !
 
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Fritz said:
Which firmware(s) is good?
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Not sure about the X356A-R6.

The last Purchase I made for the X357A Firmware was NA54. Back then I think there were some Similarities with the X356A, but not sure to what Extent that was True (IIRC I felt that they were "second Source" / equivalent Parts of each other but don't quote me on that).

The Firmware is probably different here but a quick Google Search didn't return much in Terms of a Firmware Release Notes or something like that :confused: .

Based on some other Thread here ... probably NA04 is good

Maybe Firmware Update works using this File ? Unsure:


Funnily for the X357A I though that NA54 was latest, but here is NA55:
 
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