Re: [gentoo-user] Seagate ST8000NM0065 PMR or SMR plus NAS SAS SATA question

[Dale]

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

:-)  :-)