AKA Mr. Cold Boot

Part Category: Storage Drives

  • Seagate / Lenovo 1TB SAS HDD

    Seagate / Lenovo 1TB SAS HDD

    This is a 1TB 7.2k spinning SAS hard drive manufactured by Seagate and rebranded as Lenovo.

    Notes

    • OEM equivalent of the Seagate Exos 7E2000 ST1000NX0453.
    • Designed for enterprise servers and storage arrays requiring 24×7 operation.
    • Suitable for boot drives, general-purpose storage, virtualization, and RAID arrays where high capacity is preferred over SSD performance.
    • Supports dual-port SAS for redundant storage controller configurations.
    • Commonly installed in Dell PowerEdge 14th Generation servers using the DXD9H 2.5-inch hot-plug carrier, and also available as a Lenovo OEM bare drive under part number SHD7A23121 / 1VE200-356.
  • Western Digital / DELL 3.84TB SAS SSD

    Western Digital / DELL 3.84TB SAS SSD

    This is a Western Digital 3.84TB SAS drive rebranded for Dell.

    Notes:

    • Enterprise SSD designed for Tier-0 storage, virtualization, software-defined storage (SDS), OLTP databases, analytics, and high-performance servers.
    • Uses a dual-port SAS interface for high-availability enterprise storage systems.
    • The ASS200 suffix denotes the ISE (Instant Secure Erase) variant; other suffixes in the SS530 family identify Self-Encrypting (SE), TCG, and TCG-FIPS models.
    • Dell shipped this drive in numerous PowerEdge and Dell EMC Ready Node systems under OEM firmware.
    • Dell released firmware K968 to address premature wear and self-initiated reset issues for this drive family.
  • Samsung/DELL 1.6 TB NVME Drive

    Samsung/DELL 1.6 TB NVME Drive

    This is a Samsung manufactured drive rebranded for Dell. Despite the Dell branding it has proven compatible with other brands like HPE.

    Notes:

    • Enterprise-grade NVMe SSD designed for PowerEdge servers although compatibility is seen across manufacturers.
    • Mixed-Use endurance makes it suitable for virtualization, databases, VMs, and general enterprise storage workloads.
    • PCIe Gen3 x4 interface provides significantly higher performance than SAS or SATA SSDs.
    • Supports dual-port operation for high-availability enterprise storage configurations.
    • Commonly found in Dell PowerEdge 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th Generation servers with U.2 NVMe backplanes.
    • Ships in a Dell 2.5-inch hot-plug carrier (often carrier part DXD9H).

     

  • Samsung 3.84TB NVME Drive

    Samsung 3.84TB NVME Drive

    This is a 3.84TB U.2 NVME drive manufactured by Samsung.

  • Intel/Solidigm 1.92TB NVME Drive

    Intel/Solidigm 1.92TB NVME Drive

    Intel/Solidigm U.2 NVME drive.