So, as I find deals here at STH, I've accumulated a bunch of these HGST HUSMM8080 SSDs:
as you can see, some are plain HGST, some are HP (the HSSC0800...), and some are I don't know what (HUSMM818 CLAR800)? which say "HITACHI" instead of just HGST. anyway, they all work, but they interact differently with my backplane (Supermicro BPN-SAS-216A). The 12x HP branded ones have the activity LED off, and flicker with activity, while the HGST and "HITACHI" ones have a solid on LED, and flicker with activity. I'm thinking there's something strange about the firmware's interaction with the backplane? just a guess...
wondering if it is possible just to flash all of them to the same firmware? hoping that would make them behave the same way with the backplane, and just make things more consistent... any pointers?
Code:
$ lsscsi
[1:0:0:0] disk SanDisk Ultra Fit 1.00 /dev/sda
[8:0:0:0] disk HGST HSSC0800S5xnNMME 3P02 /dev/sdb
[8:0:1:0] disk HGST HSSC0800S5xnNMME 3P02 /dev/sdc
[8:0:2:0] disk HGST HSSC0800S5xnNMME 3P02 /dev/sdd
[8:0:3:0] disk HGST HSSC0800S5xnNMME 3P02 /dev/sde
[8:0:4:0] disk HGST HSSC0800S5xnNMME 3P02 /dev/sdf
[8:0:5:0] disk HGST HSSC0800S5xnNMME 3P02 /dev/sdg
[8:0:6:0] disk HGST HSSC0800S5xnNMME 3P02 /dev/sdh
[8:0:7:0] disk HGST HSSC0800S5xnNMME 3P02 /dev/sdi
[9:0:0:0] disk HITACHI HUSMM818 CLAR800 C118 /dev/sdj
[9:0:1:0] disk HITACHI HUSMM818 CLAR800 C118 /dev/sdk
[9:0:2:0] disk HITACHI HUSMM818 CLAR800 C118 /dev/sdl
[9:0:3:0] disk HITACHI HUSMM818 CLAR800 C118 /dev/sdm
[9:0:4:0] disk HGST HSSC0800S5xnNMME 3P02 /dev/sdn
[9:0:5:0] disk HGST HSSC0800S5xnNMME 3P02 /dev/sdo
[9:0:6:0] disk HGST HSSC0800S5xnNMME 3P02 /dev/sdp
[9:0:7:0] disk HGST HSSC0800S5xnNMME 3P02 /dev/sdq
[10:0:0:0] disk HGST HUSMM8080ASS200 A210 /dev/sdr
[10:0:1:0] disk HGST HUSMM8080ASS200 A210 /dev/sds
[10:0:2:0] disk HGST HUSMM8080ASS200 A210 /dev/sdt
[10:0:3:0] disk HGST HUSMM8080ASS200 A210 /dev/sdu
[10:0:4:0] disk HITACHI HUSMM818 CLAR800 C118 /dev/sdv
[10:0:5:0] disk HITACHI HUSMM818 CLAR800 C118 /dev/sdw
[10:0:6:0] disk HITACHI HUSMM818 CLAR800 C118 /dev/sdx
[10:0:7:0] disk HITACHI HUSMM818 CLAR800 C118 /dev/sdy
wondering if it is possible just to flash all of them to the same firmware? hoping that would make them behave the same way with the backplane, and just make things more consistent... any pointers?