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R430 picky about drives? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by rudeer_poke@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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I have a recently acquired DELL R430 curently with a single Intel DC3520 SSD. I wanted to add some additional disks, but none of them are detected by the operating system. The server has a Perc H330 in HBA mode.

An old Seagate 80 GB laptop drive that works when connected to my desktop - top light on caddy is on (same as with the current intel SSD), i can hear the disk spinning up, but not detected in the HBA settings.
Two Samsung SAS SSDs drives from ebay (MZ-ILS1T6N, EMC P/N: 118000301) - are detected by the Perc but with some strange values - note the (0KB) in the title. on the caddy both lights are on

Am I missing something or are these drives simply not compatible with the R430?

https://preview.redd.it/a1ayfy63x50c1.png?width=1051&format=png&auto=webp&s=c59204709a8bb2f03ce6c341c191c96a40f63cca

https://preview.redd.it/1dwvver4v50c1.png?width=1065&format=png&auto=webp&s=9ace0a9827a86c4882b908b100b1246e51369b92

The SAS drives have some strange connector on the front - any idea what is that? (i suspect some proprietary EMC caddy connector?)

https://preview.redd.it/fdde37ixv50c1.jpg?width=1599&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aa522dfe229bba516e285dc713de48381b8a4d58

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[–] Status_Mechanic@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some Dell servers require HDD/SSDs with Dell firmware locking you to their ecosystem. No idea about workarounds but I assume they exist when the factory warranty doesn't matter anymore.

[–] cjchico@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Not the case for R430 and AFAIK any other Poweredge series.