Hi Michael, I think it is too. Your link shows about what the link I was looking at does.
I did research the SATA and SAS connector issue again. Seagate has a picture of both for comparison and the drive I was looking at is a SAS drive. When I did more research, it seems you can connect a SATA drive to SAS but not a SAS drive to SATA, unless that has changed since the site I found posted about it. Either way, while it does seem to be PMR, I don't want to chance it not working since it is a SAS drive. I need to weed out SAS type drives unless I want to buy a SAS drive controller card as well, to be certain it will work. For those curious, this is a link that shows a picture. One has to look closely because at a glance, they look a LOT alike. https://www.seagate.com/support/kb/connecting-sata-drive-to-sas-controller-006170en/ SATA drives may be plugged into SAS controllers. SAS drives cannot be plugged into SATA controllers. Back to digging and waiting for a good deal. Thanks much for the help. :-D Dale :-) :-) Michael wrote: > According to this URL this drive claims to use perpendicular recording, so it > is probably a PMR drive. > > https://www.disctech.com/Seagate-ST8000NM0045-8TB-SATA-Hard-Drive > > This finding is reinforced in this URL: > > https://www.disctech.com/Seagate-ST8000NM0045-8TB-SATA-Hard-Drive > > > > On Sunday, 10 May 2020 07:54:38 BST Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I found a deal. It's open box but it's a good price. I've googled to >> try to find out if it is PMR or SMR but I can't find anything that says >> one way or another. I did find where it says it has a sustained >> throughput of 249MB/Sec which makes me think it is PMR, plus it is a >> NAS/SAS drive. Does anyone know for sure if it is a PMR drive? It's a >> good price at $150 but I'd like to avoid a SMR drive if at all possible. >> >> Also, I looked at the connector and it looks like a regular SATA >> connector for the data and power. However, it does say it is a SAS >> drive. I thought SAS had a different connector but maybe I'm wrong >> about that. These SAS drives will connect to a regular SATA connector >> right? I'm thinking it will but don't need a $150 doorstop. :/ >> >> Thanks to anyone who can share some info. Let's hope that drive isn't >> gone before I can find out if it works or not. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-)
