So far these drives worked EMC KTN-STL15, Supermicro SC837 (SAS2 with multipath) and only one of my NetApp 4243, which I believe is more recent than the others.
With Zoned I/O, btrfs functionality is broken in some cases. You can write once and read many times but delete does not work most of the time.
This is amazing price, no sales tax as well. Pricing on this site is weird. Everything else is super expensive:
ime a lot of these companies are so busy that their web sites are not regularly able to keep up with their ebay, etc. But you can call them and do business that way. I can't use these drives, but they seem legit and they have a lot in inventory according to their site so would be interesting to know how an order goes.
No, i meant the HBA you're using. Since you said it needed to be "modern"
For HBAs check datasheets for each hba for hm smr support. You need at least SAS3 era cards but not all sas3 era hbas support hm smr.
That's weird, I created an account a week or two ago and it worked fine (and I have the drive running on my system now). Their website is indeed from 1999 or so, you are emailed your account info and password in the clear after you register.
