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January 3rd, 2025 20:56
Seagate SAS drives, Product ID "STTBSKD1 EMC1800" are GREEN on iDRAC but the Configuration RAID not listing
I have 4 Seagate ST1800MM0008 in my PowerEdge R630. I can see SAS drives as 'green' with Product ID "STTBSKD1 EMC1800" on iDRAC but the State is 'Blocked'. Not passing test in diagnostic and when enter Lifecycle Controller to do ConfigureRAID I don't see them. The drives seems to be coming from EMC and the block size is 4160.
Would I be able to use them and how?
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Origin3k
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January 5th, 2025 09:42
Disks from older SAN Systemes are often formated with 520bytes which is not compatible and needs to be corrected fist. Todays standard is 4k and they can emulate the old 512byte standard for compatible reasions.
If your Disk is a real 4k one without the option to emulate the 512bytes you have to check if the old H730 or what ever you have can support 4k Blocksize.
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January 6th, 2025 05:45
Hello the disk you are using doesn’t seem to be a normal HDD- looks like it is for a specific EMC storage. Do you have a part number for the disk to share?
https://dell.to/3WvdKGj
See the link above for 4K native sector support.
Respectfully,
dragoku
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January 6th, 2025 16:59
Hi,
My PERC is H330. One of the Seagate disks, Enterprise Performance 10K HDD v8 ( 1.8TB SAS 4Kn ), SN W3Z0J302. The QR code leads me to page where this formerly Savvio 10K.5 drive "...provides the optimal balance of high capacity, performance and low power in 2.5-inch enterprise drive... ideal for use in enterprise storage arrays and servers". Which means I should be able to use it in my PowerEdge R630 server.
I believe that drives need to be reformatted to block size supported by H330. What I see in H330 specs is:
"4K Native Sector Support". Now I have to figure out how to achieve that and plug-in reformatted drives back to my server.
Thanks, Drago.