Water Panther 15.36TB SAS 24Gb/s 2.5" SSD for Dell PowerEdge Servers | Enterprise Drive in 13G Tray

Works great. Actual drive is a Toshiba. Loaded it up in an r730xd and it has been performing great under a very write intensive workload for the last month. Drive looked new and reported 0% wear when I got it. ~$ sudo sg_logs /dev/sdm --page=0x11 TOSHIBA PX04SVQ160 0805 Solid state media page [0x11] Percentage used endurance indicator: 0 %

- Amazing drive quality for the price - I hope these are around for a while at the current price point as we like using them. Thank You

Good communication with the seller. Product as described. Shipped quickly and packed very well.

TechCity shipped a certified HP drive not dell. Response on questioning the device received. "We understand your concern. Please be informed that Water Panther validates compatibility for their drives in the intended systems shown in the item listings. Even though the drive has an HP certification, it is compatible with Dell systems."

Works fine, but my Dell R540 doesn’t recognize it as an official Dell item.

What we needed, for the right price and timely delivery for an urgent need.

The first set of drives I ordered came just like the picture shows. A big blue Water Panther sticker on one side of the drive. The drives showed up as Dell drives in the Dell Open Server Manager they just had weird serial numbers. The second set of drives I bought, which came in two days before this review, are HGST drives with a small Water Panther sticker on them. While they will work in a Dell server, in Open Server Manager you will get the non-critical alert for the drives not being Dell drives. So this all depends on what your definition of "compatible" is. I'm keeping the drives because they are good drives, but I would say Water Panther is taking regular name-brand drives and repackaging them with their sticker on them. Water Panther has not figured out how to add Dell firmware to brand new drives or anything magical like that. Water Panther is "yet another reseller of refurbished stuff". As long as they are testing the drives before reselling them and weeding out the bad drives, they bring value so I'll probably keep buying drives from them.

I really wanted to bring new life to a slower, old server. These WP 480GB SAS 12Gb/s 2.5 SSD's are performing well and meet my expectations for performance. There is no point for the vendor saying these are for Dell PowerEdge Servers though. These ARE NOT Dell branded and OMSA will report the status as Non-Critical with the yellow warning with exclamation point. Does that impact the performance? Nope. But reporting tools will report it. It is more of an annoyance than anything. In order for the drives to NOT show up with a red X or not validated; do this: 1. Upgrade Dell OpenManage Server Administrator to 8.5.0 or above, if already installed go to the next step. 2. Open the stsvc.ini file located in either the C:\Program Files\Dell\SysMgt\sm or the C:\Program Files (x86)\Dell\SysMgt\smfolder depending on if you have installed the 32-bit/64-bit version. 3. There should be the following ;nonDellCertified flag for blocking all non-dell certified alerts. NonDellCertifiedFlag=yes Change this to the following and save the file. ;nonDellCertified flag for blocking all non-dell certified alerts. NonDellCertifiedFlag=no If you do not find this line in the file you will need to add it in the following place and save the file. This is normally when you upgrade from an older version to 8.5.0. It is very important it is added after the [general] lines or the setting won’t be honored. ;General Settings [general] ;Amount, in seconds, to sleep between each attempt to poll the PV20x, PV21x, and PV22x enclosure(s). EnclosurePollingInterval=30 ;nonDellCertified flag for blocking all non-dell certified alerts. NonDellCertifiedFlag=no 4. Once you have modified the INI file you need to restart the DSM SA Data Manager service in services.msc and Dell OMSA should now report this if you refresh the page. [ credit to Ashley H @ Tough Tech Site ] [ Edit May 6, 2024 ] There is an easier way now to turn of the NonDellCertifiedFlag. Just run this command from an elevated command prompt: omconfig storage globalinfo action=setnondellcertifiedmode mode=no BOOM! No more yellow triangles!