[Cialug] Testing SAS drives

[David Champion]

Find a surplus server with a SAS backplane and the right size drive bays? A
10 year old server like a Dell R610 is basically worthless but you would be
able to test drives in it.

-dc


On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 5:45 PM Jared Brees <fromj2sitsme at msn.com> wrote:

> I'm confused how you expect to test these if they won't spin up? Sounds
> like the test failed.
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> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
> Subject: [Cialug] Testing SAS drives
>
> Getting hard to find 2T SAS drives any more, .. so I got some on eBay.
>
> Would like to test them, however, before attempting a rebuild.
>
> So, .. why not get a SAS - SATA adapter and drop them on a test machine?
> Well, that's a nonstarter - drive won't even spin up.
>
> What is required? Would like to verify the partition table (blank,
> right?), and maybe run testdisk on a drive that will only come up
> "Unconfigured (good)".
>
>         TIA!
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