{"id":96,"date":"2010-03-11T21:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zensonic.dk\/?p=96"},"modified":"2017-04-09T10:03:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T10:03:56","slug":"non-hp-harddrives-in-an-hp-msa20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zensonic.dk\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"Non-HP harddrives in an HP MSA20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A customer asked me if it was possible to use non-hp drives in an HP MSA20 as they costed a lot less than HPs own drives. I honestly said that it would require a POF. The customer accepted the initial expense of single 1TB SATA drive.\u00c2\u00a0 I fired up hpacucli to figure out what was up and down on this<\/p>\n<pre>=&gt; ctrl ch=\"mirror\" show config detail\r\n....\r\n....\r\nphysicaldrive 1:1\r\nBox: 1\r\nBay: 1\r\nStatus: OK\r\nDrive Type: Data Drive\r\nInterface Type: SATA\r\nSize: 1000.2 GB\r\nFirmware Revision: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HPG1<\/span>\r\nSerial Number: 9QJ2B4GD\r\nModel: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HP\u00c2\u00a0GB1000EAFJL<\/span>\r\nSATA NCQ Capable: False<\/pre>\n<p>As HP does not make harddrives, but uses OEM drives with custom firmware I had to figure out what types of drives was in there. The easiest solution would be to shut the box down and pull out a drive to inspect. Having dealt with HP quite a lot, I know that they also remark the drives, so I would probably not be able to see what types of drives was in there, leaving me with guessing if I choose to go that route.<\/p>\n<p>Instead I opted for figuring out what type of drive it was likely to be based on the firmware.\u00c2\u00a0 I googled a bit and found that the MSA20 could support up to 1TB disks. A bit more googling yielded <a href=\"http:\/\/h20000.www2.hp.com\/bizsupport\/TechSupport\/Document.jsp?objectID=c01612429&amp;dimid=1019957810&amp;dicid=alr_jan09&amp;jumpid=em_alerts\/us\/jan09\/all\/xbu\/emailsubid\/mrm\/mcc\/loc\/rbu_category_Advisory%28Revision\/alerts\">this<\/a> advisory from HP about upgrading firmware on <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Seagate<\/span> drives to <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HPG6<span style=\"color: #000000;\">. Based on the age of the MSA20 in question, the age of the 1TB HP disks we already had in them, I decided it was most likely to be Baracuda 7200.11 drives that HP utilized for this and thus we ordered one of those.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\nDrive arrived. We put it in. Rescanned and lo and behold:<\/p>\n<pre>physicaldrive 1:6\r\nBox: 1\r\nBay: 6\r\nStatus: OK\r\nDrive Type: Data Drive\r\nInterface Type: SATA\r\nSize: 1000.2 GB\r\nFirmware Revision: CC38\r\nSerial Number:\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 9VP4D0ZA\r\nModel: Seagate ST31000528AS\r\nSATA NCQ Capable: False<\/pre>\n<p>A non-HP drive working. We have now placed an order for 19 x 1TB Seagate drives.<\/p>\n<p>Your millage may wary if you try this. It is also worth mentioning that it would be an option to test non-seagate disks and\/or bigger disks. Beware of the heat and power requirements though! HP themselves only sells the MSA20 with upto 1TB disks.<\/p>\n<p>Finally for the record, it should be state that this was on an MSA20 with this firmware level:<\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">MSA20<\/span> in mirror\r\n Bus Interface: SCSI\r\n Serial Number: PAAAC0PMQTR7V0\r\n Chassis Serial Number: E01RMLJ17M\r\n Chassis Name: mirror\r\n RAID 6 (ADG) Status: Enabled\r\n Controller Status: OK\r\n Chassis Slot: 2\r\n <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Hardware Revision: Rev A<\/span>\r\n <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Firmware Version: 2.08<\/span>\r\n Rebuild Priority: Medium\r\n Expand Priority: Medium\r\n Surface Scan Delay: 3 secs\r\n Cache Board Present: True\r\n Cache Status: OK\r\n Accelerator Ratio: 50% Read \/ 50% Write\r\n Drive Write Cache: Disabled\r\n Read Cache Size: 56 MB\r\n Write Cache Size: 56 MB\r\n Total Cache Size: 112 MB\r\n Chassis Slot 2 Battery Info\r\n Battery Pack Count: 2\r\n Battery Status: OK\r\n Host Bus Adapter Slot: Slot Unknown\r\n Host Bus Adapter Port: 1\r\n SATA NCQ Supported: False\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A customer asked me if it was possible to use non-hp drives in an HP MSA20 as they costed a lot less than HPs own drives. I honestly said that it would require a POF. The customer accepted the initial expense of single 1TB SATA drive.\u00c2\u00a0 I fired up hpacucli to figure out what was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-linux","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zensonic.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zensonic.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zensonic.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zensonic.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zensonic.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zensonic.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zensonic.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zensonic.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zensonic.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}