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In the past, third party disc drives on HP3000s were almost unheard of. HP claims that their drives (even the drives not made by HP), though appearing identical to drives from other manufacturers, have "sector atomicity" robustness the others do not. Nonetheless, third party disc drives are becoming more popular on HP3000s - including many RAID solutions and disc farms. Several of these are even recommended by HP (especially since they stopped making drives themselves some time ago).

Several HP3000-L members have installed FW SCSI drives (bought from local PC/Computer stores) and successfully installed them in their HP3000s - though the robustness of these drives is not thought to be of the same level as drives actually sold for HP3000s.

-- Main.ChrisBartram - 17 May 2006