I'd be curious to know this, as well as I have had a difficult time even researching these specific variants. You can see that there are simply IBM stickers plastered on top of the original and they work and report full details under ESXi 6.5U1 in my Cisco UCS-C240-M3S, but if I'm finally going to be honest with myself, they are total overkill and I've been getting by fine on cheapo 500GB Samsung EVOs for the most part, which are more in line with the massive amount of learning I have ahead of me. Mine are listed as:does anyone know where to download the latest firmware for these SSDs?
- Product ID: HSVW800
- Vendor: IBM-SSG
- Drive Firmware: B204
Also, as an aside -- not to get too off topic, but how well have these drives held their value on the secondhand market? I've got some IBM branded HUSMM1680's (800GB x2) i purchased late in 2017 and quickly realized they were way more serious drives than I needed for my little lab which is constantly being built, broken, rebuilt as part of a perpetual learning process, so I've mostly kept them sitting idle as I haven't wanted to put a ton of worthless power cycles on the drives, despite knowing they'll almost certainly outlive me. Originally paid liek $295/ea for this pair (plus shipping), which wasn't great, but also not terrible as these were a lot harder to come by back pre-NVMe being so common and affordable in those days.
The original eBay seller had them listed as:
> HGST Hitachi 800Gb 2.5" SAS 12Gb eMLC SSD Hard Drive SSD1600MM - 12G
DOM: 17 June, 2016
Model: HUSMM1680ASS201
(Please ignore the cat hair / dustballs everywhere. I promise my machines don't sit on the ground.)
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