Firmware update on IBM (Storwize) branded Seagate 1200.2

[custom90gt]

Hello all, this is likely a long shot but I was curious if anyone has thoughts on how to upgrade the firmware on a storewize SSD. Long story not so short is I purchased two Seagate st1600fm0003 1.6TB SAS SSDs to play around with a couple of months ago. They arrived and I verified they were 512 block size and that I could write files to them but didn't have time to really mess with them. Flash forward to yesterday and I was doing some testing and these drives are much slower than I anticipated them being. Diskspeed via unraid shows sequential reads around 400MB/s. I thought maybe I just need to update the firmware on the drive and that's when I realized I've probably made a mistake because these drives were likely in an IBM Storwize V5000 and seem to have a special firmware.

I tried to update the firmware via OpenSeaChest but it fails to write. I had found what I believe is the latest Seagate firmware of LF1D. My question (knowing this is a long shot) is if anyone knows of a way to replace the IBM firmware with the seagate firmware? If that's not possible, does anyone know how to get the latest IBM firmware?

Additional details:
IBM part number of the drives: 01EJ047
Installed IBM firmware: 4c1a

Thanks for any help or info.

 

[custom90gt]

Figured I'd give this a bump since I haven't been able to resolve it.

 

[custom90gt]

Hah a 5 month bump as I still cannot figure this out.

 

[EasyRhino]

You know, these drives are pretty old . they might not be that fast. I got some discarded samsung 1633a's from similar era and their write speed is sometimes under 500MB/s

Also, the 400MB thing is curious because that's about the speed you'd get if you were limited to a single pcie 3.0 x1 lane on your SAS controller. (or pcie 2.0 x2, i guess). are read speeds also 500MBs?

 

[custom90gt]

You know, these drives are pretty old . they might not be that fast. I got some discarded samsung 1633a's from similar era and their write speed is sometimes under 500MB/s

Also, the 400MB thing is curious because that's about the speed you'd get if you were limited to a single pcie 3.0 x1 lane on your SAS controller. (or pcie 2.0 x2, i guess). are read speeds also 500MBs?

Yeah read speeds are 400MB/s which is much slower than the 1100MB/s single SAS 12 port rated speeds. I don't have any read/write issues with my WD Ultrastar DC SS540 WUSTR6464BSS200 6.4TB drives. They are all running on my lsi 9500-8i which I just verified is running at 8x Gen4. My guess is the drives are likely destined for the recycling but on paper they look like fine cache drives.