JBOD troubles ...

[bford]

All we want in the world is to keep buying these celestica 60 "Titan" JBODS:

https://www.celestica.com/uploadedFiles/Site/our-expertise/hardware-platform-solutions/storage/storage-list/cls_datasheet_titan_G2_final3_040122.pdf

....but I cannot find anyone that still sells them and I have NEVER seen a used one anywhere except for the HGST models which are firmware locked to particular HGST drives and other silliness that we can't deal with.

So since I cannot buy what I like anymore, now I am looking at the newer WD Ultrastar 60 JBODs:

https://www.truenas.com/docs/files/ES60Gen2PRG.pdf

... but are these *ALSO* drive locked ? It looks like perhaps they are locked to WD drives ?

Appreciate any help--either an idea of somebody that still sells the celestica units or confirm/deny that the Ultrastar JBOD is drive-locked.

Thankyou.

 

[bford]

Some conflicting reports: serverpartdeals says the Ultrastar JBODs are locked to WD drives.

IXsystems also sells these and they say you can put any drive you want as long as it is "enterprise".

All of this is Such. Bullshit.

 

[necr]

What about Seagate 4U106? Or other older Xyratex/Seagate designs?