SUN Custom Firmware. No easy way to install stock firmware without them running in an SUN server.
Contact user E123 on HDDGURU Forums, he vendor-unlocked some drives for me in the past.
Cost about 8$ / drive
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SUN Custom Firmware. No easy way to install stock firmware without them running in an SUN server.
Contact user E123 on HDDGURU Forums, he vendor-unlocked some drives for me in the past.
Cost about 8$ / drive
I fucking love this kind of information/knowledge.
And I fucking hate locked firmware! Did we just become friends?
This can’t be flashed from a VM?
Does he unlock over VPN or do you have to mail it in?
I can unlock these drives $6 each, that includes a benchmark, long test and erase. But they have to be shipped in.
Not sure how many hundreds of drives there are but we can process 240x HDD per day.
heh. our satellite uplink can reflash upwards of 600 drives per day for only $3 each.
guessing they are 520 formated. look up " level1techs 520"
Probably both 520b sectors and locked via scsi reservation.
Either way, a low level format will fix it.
Do they have SED?
4TB……..🤦♂️
Not sure why you facepalm, I use 12*4TB for my home NAS and it gives you excellent performance in the right setup. Also, like for OP, I got them free / close to free a few years back and I would like to upgrade to larger drives, but the cost of replacing 12 drives is just still too high.
I am currently using 80+ 4TB drives, as cold storage and backups.
I'm still using some 3x1TB drives and 1x2TB in my Plex server...the drives are over a decade old and have 50K power on hours, and they still run perfectly fine.
What's the big deal?