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Secondary question: Can I use reuse the shelves with a RAID controller or do they only work hooked up to a 3PAR controller?
Shudder, the disks are 520bps (bytes per sector) most of the drive models can be re-formatted back to 512bps. But due to 3PAR's modified firmware this isn't a good idea.
I personally know of someone who took a shelf of 3TB from a 7200 and re-formatted all the disks and wanted to use them a Veeam Backup repository. the LSI raid controller kept dropping/failing and after 3 months of trips into the data-center he just abandoned the whole project.
(BTW The smart data on the drives was unavailable)