hard drive - What does LFF SATA mean? - Super User LFF == Large Form Factor == 3 5" hard drive SFF == Small Form Factor == 2 5" hard drive They had to start designating it since many servers and even desktops now are shipping with SFF drives to save physical space and or cram more drives in
Why are Large Form Factor (LFF) disks still fairly prevalent? Small Form Factor (SFF) 2 5" disks seem to have become more popular than LFF disks now due to them being preferable over LFF disks in many scenarios (lower power consumption, higher density, etc) However, LFF disks still seem to feature in major vendor's offerings (take the recently released Gen9 series of HP servers as an example)
HP Proliant G8 - mixing external drive bays SFF LFF The physical form factor of your disks doesn't matter to the server You can definitely mix LFF and SFF in the same RAID, and you can definitely add an MSA60 or D2600 (both 12-bay LFF enclosures) to the P822 controller
HP ProLiant DL380 G7 LFF - Is every SAS HDD compatible? I bought a HP ProLiant DL380 Generation 7 with a LFF drive cage and I do not know which SAS drives are actually compatible Does every SAS drive work? In particular i found this cheap IBM drive on eBay (IBM 45W7765 45W7766 with 3TB and 7200rpm) and would like to know if it will work with the DL380, or are there any limitations?
Are all LFF caddies compatible in a LFF slot? - Server Fault Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers
How to implement cheap LFF 3. 5 SATA storage on a HP . . . - Server Fault The 487936-B21 cage only holds 2 LFF Drives; and the server can only hold one of them (takes the place of the two CD-Rom drive bays) He has to replace the SFF Cage in the lower part of the server with 511784-001 (Cage) and 511787-001 (Backplane), possibly other parts too, to switch the server
Can SAS drives work on a SATA motherboard - Super User For SAS, the two connector segments (power and data) were merged, which makes it possible to attach a SATA drive to a SAS controller using the continuous(SAS) connector known as a SFF-8482 connector, but you cannot hook up a SAS hard drive to a SATA controller