Those controllers can handle > 2TB SAS hard drives but not > 2TB SATA drives. What this proves is that this is a *firmware* issue and not a hardware issue.

Flash drive prices drop again, but slowly, as they bump along after highs in late 2023. Meanwhile, spinning disk HDD prices experience a rare flutter, with SAS cost per gigabyte rising 18%.

Most notably, SAS drives feature dual ports, so they can send and receive data simultaneously, or serially. SAS drives support speeds of up to 15,000 RPM, double that of SATA drives.

Because the SAS drives are smaller than the 3.5-in. SCSI drives HP currently sells, the company will be able to pack a larger number of hard drives into each machine.

However, I honestly considered this a good omen since I had a newer 1.7 TB SAS hard drive with which I had been meaning to replace my now-defunct drive.

Computing If You Use HPE SAS Drives You Must Update Their Firmware Hewlett Packard Enterprise SAS SSDs have a major problem that's going to kill them once they reach 32,768 hours of use, guaranteed.

The 3.5-inch 12Gb/s SAS drive is capable of a maximum sequential transfer rate of 524MB/s, which is substantially faster than any other hard drive on the market.

Symply has announced brand new half-height Thunderbolt 3 and SAS enabled rack LTO drives. The new drives work with LTO-9 with an 18TB native storage capacity, with 45TB possible with compression. They ...