I’ve recently started my home lab by purchasing a Dell r630 for a variety of uses. The most frustrating part is I cannot find cheap drives that just work. I purchased 2 sets of hard drives from eBay that I must return because the drives cannot be formatted from 520 to 512 due to vender lock or something else. Its frustrating because there’s no way for me to know before purchasing a drive that is either vendor locked or the correct sector size since most sellers either don’t know or the drives are older and have been removed from the original storage where they cannot be used again. I purchased SSDs that work perfectly fine on truenas pool no issues. I then purchased an HBA330 to replace my H730P mini because I thought it would help and I’m tired of purchasing something waiting a week for it to arrive for then the drives not to work.
I purchased my equipment 3 months ago and I still can’t use my homelab because i keep running into stupid issues and now I’m ready to get rid of my home lab stuff please help me find cheap 12g 2.5 sas 1.8 tb drives that I can get 5 of them without spending 200+ dollars. I want to stick with SAS because the ssds I bought are sas already and it’s a sas backplane and want to keep the 12g speeds.
Yes i've tried SG_formatting using the sticky and many other tutorials but it seems all these cheaper drives on ebay are vendor locked and cannot be used. How do I buy used cheaper drives that are not locked and it what I need?
I purchased my equipment 3 months ago and I still can’t use my homelab because i keep running into stupid issues and now I’m ready to get rid of my home lab stuff please help me find cheap 12g 2.5 sas 1.8 tb drives that I can get 5 of them without spending 200+ dollars. I want to stick with SAS because the ssds I bought are sas already and it’s a sas backplane and want to keep the 12g speeds.
Yes i've tried SG_formatting using the sticky and many other tutorials but it seems all these cheaper drives on ebay are vendor locked and cannot be used. How do I buy used cheaper drives that are not locked and it what I need?