HPE PM1733 P16456-001, what are they compatible with?

[quebectech]

Hi,

I got a hold of four of these drives marked PN : MZXLJ1T9HBJR-00AH8, DSFW HPK1, HPE PN P16456-001

They will not detect using a 9500-8i with the original broadcom cable. I assume it is because they are "vendor locked" somehow?

Is there any way to make these work in a generic setup or do I have to get rid of them?

I'm sorry if the question has been asked before, i tried doing as much digging as I could but ended up nowhere. Even HP isn't telling me what these will run on.

Regards,
Simon

 

[Patriot]

What is the part number of the HBA and cable?
Those Samsung nvme drives should work on anything, but the cables need to support nvme.

 

[quebectech]

cable is broadcom SFF-8654 to eight SFF-8643
original 05-60006-00

HBA is this one : MegaRAID 9560-8i

HBA and NVME drives were bought off ebay. I don't have other U.2 - U.3 drives, we might have SAS SSD's at work that I could test in the meantime.

The HBA is detected and firmware was updated.

 

[DarkServant]

There is a thread about lsi 9500-8i and U.3 ssd's, and probably applicable to this controller too:
https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/broadcom-9500-8i-nvme-u-2-u-3-tri-mode.39426/
And the firmware of the ssd (HP specific PM1735 U.3?) is already at HPK6, and you should update the drives.

 

[ano]

usually not vendor locked at all, sounds like wrong cable or something

 

[quebectech]

Interesting read. the guy says the 8x cable splits the bandwidth to 1x pcie and the SSD might require 4 lanes. Sounds like i could use a 2x cable but i'd only be able to connect two drives to my HBA like that. At that point it seems a nvme backplane might be required.

Thank you for the information. I thought I just had bad drives.

Regards,
Simon

 

[quebectech]

One last thing :

I tried connecting the drive using this U.2 to PCIE adapter : U.2 PCIe 4.0 Adpater for 2.5 inch U.2 SSD (SFF-8639)
I tried a SFF-8639 to U.2 Cable connected to my TD350's SFF-8639 connector next to the CPU. Not detecting either.

I think I'll try and get a refund for the SSD's.

Thanks.

 

[DarkServant]

Sadly, without any working connection you cannot even update the firmware for this pm1735 U.3 SSD (which seems to be only available from HPE on the market, otherwise all the pm1735 are AIC).
If you can update it to HPK6, the chances are there that it will work.