HP server non-original hard drive

Question

Iron

Hello, there is an HP ML150G6 server, how critical is it if you connect a hard drive without an HP label to its sata / sas controller p410? Is it true that hard HPs are specially flashed with their firmware?

Answer 1

You can connect. Nothing will burn.
But as for the normal work, no one can guarantee anything to you. It may work, it may even work stably. Or maybe not.
For example, if it falls out of RAID once a week, to whom will you go with claims? Votimano…

Answer 2

Hard drives supplied by HP do have HP's own firmware, but HP Smart Array controllers work just fine with non-original drives (Seagate, WD, etc.).
I myself have a P410, I have not experienced any problems with third-party HDD / SSD.

Answer 3

Some controllers used to swear at non-native disks and refuse to work. After that, a crowd of dissatisfied users expressed their "fairies" and many vendors removed this stupid block.
That is, if the controller refuses to work due to the fact that the disk is not native, then a regular controller firmware update can help.
I had this on Dell PowerEdge (H700 controllers, about 30% of drives are non-native) and I heard a similar cartoon on HP.

Answer 4

G6 will work.
"Tales" about non-native screws are grounded. But they are expressed in the absence of support for some proprietary technologies, and not disks in general. What affects performance.
In principle, they are nothing illegal, and I do not allow inconsistencies in the documentation.

Answer 5

On sata, I didn’t catch any problems with any disks, but on sas on non-native disks, performance degrades just awful, controller firmware or climbing on forums and bugtrackers often helps. The problem is more relevant for older controllers, but 410 is a problematic controller in itself, it's hard to say if there will be problems with sas, sata can be installed without fear.

Answer 6

The HP firmware in the HDD includes some branded "features" in SAS and slightly "tunes" SATA. Plus, branded HDDs undergo a very rigorous aptitude test, which is a plus, it seems to me. And so, under the guise of HP, there are Seagate and recently Hitachi.
But as mentioned above — 410 itself is capricious.
It’s a bit off topic - I have non-native SAS in my P2000 and everything works fine, though it’s worth recognizing that operational data is on the shelf, and the screws are used there as consumables, so there’s not much point in overpaying for reliability.