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