Good evening,
New to self-hosting and servers, I'm wanting know if I can use non-HP drives in my server. I'm wanting to use it for Proxmox and a NAS though I would need a JBOD or some enclosure. I have the SFF 8 bay version, Ive gone through the process of upgrading things. installed 2 x 2640 v4s with plans to retrofit a DL360 High performance heat sinks.
I have 20 X HITACHI 600GB HUC106060CSS600 10K 2.5 SAS drives.
When I first connected them using a H240 [firmware 7.00], I tried using HP Smart Storage Administrator to see if I could format them but that had a couple of issues. I got a status message that the drives were 4kn[?] as well as they don't support raid with this controller.
Since I don't have caddies or other compatible SAS hardware at the moment I removed the back-plane from the server chassis to start testing.
So I went down the rabbit hole of trying to find firmware updates, etc.... [SCREW HPE!!!!
] I have gotten the bios to version U20_3.20 and updated iLO to 2.82. That didn't work so I tried updating the HBA firmware but I think I need to install a OS. From there I switched the controller to HBA mode that allowed me to see the HDDs in Ubuntu though they were showing as 0GB using lsblk.
With some research, I read that I need to change the firmware and sector size to be used from there I have gone through the process of converting the sectors to 512 from 520. This has allowed me to see the drives in Ubuntu and their size as well as give me the option to format them [Though I haven't yet]. This has been a long process, as I'm doing each drive 1 by 1. I order to do this I installed Ubuntu on a USB drive and installed sg3-utils and firmware updater.
Though firmware updater said something about not having a UEFI capsule installed. And I don't think I can update the firmware of the drives.
Another thing is I would have to get drive caddies and all the one's I see are "smart chipped". From my research I have seen that in order to use the caddies I would need genuine HP drives. Finally is there a way to test, format, etc the drives quicker.
Any assistance would be appreciated.
New to self-hosting and servers, I'm wanting know if I can use non-HP drives in my server. I'm wanting to use it for Proxmox and a NAS though I would need a JBOD or some enclosure. I have the SFF 8 bay version, Ive gone through the process of upgrading things. installed 2 x 2640 v4s with plans to retrofit a DL360 High performance heat sinks.
I have 20 X HITACHI 600GB HUC106060CSS600 10K 2.5 SAS drives.
When I first connected them using a H240 [firmware 7.00], I tried using HP Smart Storage Administrator to see if I could format them but that had a couple of issues. I got a status message that the drives were 4kn[?] as well as they don't support raid with this controller.
Since I don't have caddies or other compatible SAS hardware at the moment I removed the back-plane from the server chassis to start testing.
So I went down the rabbit hole of trying to find firmware updates, etc.... [SCREW HPE!!!!
] I have gotten the bios to version U20_3.20 and updated iLO to 2.82. That didn't work so I tried updating the HBA firmware but I think I need to install a OS. From there I switched the controller to HBA mode that allowed me to see the HDDs in Ubuntu though they were showing as 0GB using lsblk.With some research, I read that I need to change the firmware and sector size to be used from there I have gone through the process of converting the sectors to 512 from 520. This has allowed me to see the drives in Ubuntu and their size as well as give me the option to format them [Though I haven't yet]. This has been a long process, as I'm doing each drive 1 by 1. I order to do this I installed Ubuntu on a USB drive and installed sg3-utils and firmware updater.
Though firmware updater said something about not having a UEFI capsule installed. And I don't think I can update the firmware of the drives.
Another thing is I would have to get drive caddies and all the one's I see are "smart chipped". From my research I have seen that in order to use the caddies I would need genuine HP drives. Finally is there a way to test, format, etc the drives quicker.
Any assistance would be appreciated.
