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 > > :-) :-) >
I missed out on previous deal. I have ran up on a few sites that list PMR and SMR drives. One site is a look up just to find out if it is SMR or PMR. I'm not sure how accurate any of these are but it is likely better than nothing. I did want to share these links just in case they may be helpful to someone else. https://issmrdrive.com/ https://www.ixsystems.com/community/resources/list-of-known-smr-drives.141/ This next one is Chinese I think. Thing is, the part that is needed is English, for us English only speakers. https://www.jianshu.com/p/51bc72e29138 I hope some of you will bookmark these and find them useful later on. I sure do get a lot of help from the folks here. If anyone else has links like these, it would be nice to share. Now to go figure out how to tell if a used drive is "shucked" or not. I don't want to buy one and run into that 3.3V pin problem. Youtube is waiting. Dale :-) :-)
