I'm hearing a lot of talk about HGST DAS enclosures lately. Personally I love my Lenovo SA120's, although I understand these have now been updated by another model..?hgst 4u60, generation 1
60 bay sas/sata, top-loading
in my opinion is gen 1 of hgst 4u60 is the best. why ? because gen 1 is much more quiete than gen 2.I'm hearing a lot of talk about HGST DAS enclosures lately. Personally I love my Lenovo SA120's, although I understand these have now been updated by another model..?
What are these cheap SAS drives you are talking about? Reality is it's just money grabbing, there is no such thing as a cheap none enterprise SAS drive. In fact the drive almost certainly is OEM'd from one of the now very small number of drive manufactures left, with "magic" firmware that changes the drive string it reports so that the exact same model of drive, but stock from the manufacture does not work.Why would WD (or IBM or HPE) allow cheap third party drives in their expensive arrays? They want to make cash with those, and part of that cash flow is drives (with optimized /tested firmware in the best case).
Kind-of missed the point. You're right, it's the same drive with custom firmware. However they charge (example) say $700 for a drive that would be $350 "retail" and not their special firmware. That's the cheap third party drive I believe @Rand__ was referringWhat are these cheap SAS drives you are talking about? Reality is it's just money grabbing, there is no such thing as a cheap none enterprise SAS drive. In fact the drive almost certainly is OEM'd from one of the now very small number of drive manufactures left, with "magic" firmware that changes the drive string it reports so that the exact same model of drive, but stock from the manufacture does not work.