I have some Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v5 4TB SAS (ST4000NM0025) drives which have been flashed by lenovo with a custom 3TB firmware because they were used to replace failed drives in a 3TB storage system.
Now the original system has been decommissioned, but since these drives have just a few months of life I would like to use them, but at their original capacity of 4TB, so I wonder if this can be done flashing back the correct firmware
At the moment I did the following
- found this page ( https://www.seagate.com/support/internal-hard-drives/enterprise-hard-drives/exos-7E/ ) and checked if I can download a Seagate firmware with the SN on my drives. Unfortunately it says that there are no firmware for this serial
- I did not give up and found some images in google of "vanilla" ST4000NM0025 SAS and used their SN to get the link for downloading the firmware
Now I have the firmware but I wonder how to proceed, is there a best practice? best OS to do this?
I'm sure I will have to use some very powerful "force anyway" command because it will not recognize the disk as Seagate.
I have also found that lenovo as the same drive with a 4TB lenovo firmware, but have no idea where I can find that firmware and if it will be any easier to flash
Any suggestion? Maybe some experience?
Thanks
P.S. I will ship for free one of the drives to those who will help me do this
Now the original system has been decommissioned, but since these drives have just a few months of life I would like to use them, but at their original capacity of 4TB, so I wonder if this can be done flashing back the correct firmware
At the moment I did the following
- found this page ( https://www.seagate.com/support/internal-hard-drives/enterprise-hard-drives/exos-7E/ ) and checked if I can download a Seagate firmware with the SN on my drives. Unfortunately it says that there are no firmware for this serial
- I did not give up and found some images in google of "vanilla" ST4000NM0025 SAS and used their SN to get the link for downloading the firmware
Now I have the firmware but I wonder how to proceed, is there a best practice? best OS to do this?
I'm sure I will have to use some very powerful "force anyway" command because it will not recognize the disk as Seagate.
I have also found that lenovo as the same drive with a 4TB lenovo firmware, but have no idea where I can find that firmware and if it will be any easier to flash
Any suggestion? Maybe some experience?
Thanks
P.S. I will ship for free one of the drives to those who will help me do this
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