HUSSL4020ASS600 slc sas ssd drives for $120

[whitey]

Write endurance wise babies but they are also getting older. Hoping mine come soon. That was very fast for yours.

Yeah they are nearing 5 yr warranty, this guy is in TX and I am in CO so short ship (2 day)

 

[whitey]

Noticed some 4040's (the 400GB model) listed with the wrong title but if the item matches the picture they should be the right drive.
Hitachi HUSSL4040BSS600 400GB SSD SAS 15000 RPM 15K Hard Drive Solid State

That's a STEAL if it's legit!

 

[NetWise]

I'm pleading ignorance and maybe I missed a part of something. Is the main reason these are good deals is due to SAS and SLC? That makes sense, I'm just confirming I'm understanding the right reasons....

 

[whitey]

I'm pleading ignorance and maybe I missed a part of something. Is the main reason these are good deals is due to SAS and SLC? That makes sense, I'm just confirming I'm understanding the right reasons....

SAS/SLC/endurance/ent-class sustained-performance proven device/etc.

 

[abq]

Has anyone found latest firmware for these HUSSL4020ASS600 SSD, and is there a simple method to update the firmware? I have purchased 4 of these from Smith**line**** (ebay seller), and they do not respond to Ebay messages. All 4 SSD show up under under 'Disks' in Ubuntu, but I cannot access 2 of them (just shows generic name - cannot benchmark, format, or access them), other 2 I can access & benchmark (fast SLC. I also seem to have no way to initiate self test for any HUSSL4020ASS600 under 'Disks' or 'GSmartmon', but other SSDs are no problem to self test. These are curious SSD, must be an enterprise SSD thing.

I would like to flash latest firmware, and ensure all on same firmware. Thank You

 

[whitey]

@abq, I'm no help for firmware as i just leave mine where they are if they are performing up to snuff/where they should be (yep, I'm a fan of if it ain't broke don't fix it) but you can possibly try this for mis-behaving drives, fixed up a few for me. Essentially you are after a low-level format, hell could even try ATA secure erase but this worked for me.

I used a Linux helper/utility VM to run these cmds.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M (wipe drive)
badblocks -wsv -o /root/badblocks-sdb.txt /dev/sdb (run badblocks)
mkfs.ext4 -l /root/badblocks-sdb.txt /dev/sdb (lay down FS feeding in badblocks .txt file)

After this I was able to see w/ fdisk/lsblk/web UI's of various stg technologies/appliances.

 

[DaSaint]

You might also want to check to see if they were formatted in 520 block.. You can use a centos disk to reformat into 512 block

See
Sg3utils
http://pissedoffadmins.com/general/unsupported-sector-size-520.html

A few of mine were formatted in 520 block and they do wacky things like that

520 block means they were most likely used in a real San u can also do in Linux
dmesg | grep -I 520
See if anything Pops up if so that's most likely your issue

 

[MiniKnight]

You might also want to check to see if they were formatted in 520 block.. You can use a centos disk to reformat into 512 block

See
Sg3utils
http://pissedoffadmins.com/general/unsupported-sector-size-520.html

A few of mine were formatted in 520 block and they do wacky things like that

520 block means they were most likely used in a real San u can also do in Linux
dmesg | grep -I 520
See if anything Pops up if so that's most likely your issue

Another resource is stickied at the top of the STH HDD and SSD forum: How to reformat HDD & SSD to 512B Sector Size

 

[abq]

@abq, I'm no help for firmware as i just leave mine where they are if they are performing up to snuff/where they should be (yep, I'm a fan of if it ain't broke don't fix it) but you can possibly try this for mis-behaving drives, fixed up a few for me. Essentially you are after a low-level format, hell could even try ATA secure erase but this worked for me.

I used a Linux helper/utility VM to run these cmds.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M (wipe drive)
badblocks -wsv -o /root/badblocks-sdb.txt /dev/sdb (run badblocks)
mkfs.ext4 -l /root/badblocks-sdb.txt /dev/sdb (lay down FS feeding in badblocks .txt file)

After this I was able to see w/ fdisk/lsblk/web UI's of various stg technologies/appliances.

Thank You very much! I will try a low level formatting this weekend.
EDIT-I have email from seller! I will check to see if they want me to try low level format, or can exchange. Wish me luck

 

[abq]

You might also want to check to see if they were formatted in 520 block.. You can use a centos disk to reformat into 512 block

See
Sg3utils
http://pissedoffadmins.com/general/unsupported-sector-size-520.html

A few of mine were formatted in 520 block and they do wacky things like that

520 block means they were most likely used in a real San u can also do in Linux
dmesg | grep -I 520
See if anything Pops up if so that's most likely your issue

Thank You, I will try this fix as well

 

[abq]

Another resource is stickied at the top of the STH HDD and SSD forum: How to reformat HDD & SSD to 512B Sector Size

Great advice & link - Thank You!

 

[aj84]

They relisted them: nine overall...four still available -> www.ebay.com/itm/301901783906

 

[whitey]

Or you all can get my qty 4 models of this exact drive (which came from xpressmicro about a month ago) for $120 each over in the FS thread.

Save yourself $20 + shipping costs...just sayin' :-D

(/shameless plug)

 

[zeynel]

i got my 10 drives today, they are 520byte sector size , i used debian with sg_utils to reformat them to 512 bytes without problems on an LSI 9211-8i.



Benchmark results :


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CrystalDiskMark 5.1.2 x64 (C) 2007-2016 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : Crystal Dew World
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 545.127 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 517.576 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 200.167 MB/s [ 48868.9 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 123.616 MB/s [ 30179.7 IOPS]
Sequential Read (T= 1) : 428.006 MB/s
Sequential Write (T= 1) : 497.831 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 31.701 MB/s [ 7739.5 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 58.335 MB/s [ 14241.9 IOPS]

Test : 1024 MiB [D: 0.0% (0.1/372.6 GiB)] (x5) [Interval=5 sec]
Date : 2016/04/05 10:40:13
OS : Windows 10 Professional [10.0 Build 10586] (x64)