Reviews of the MBA3300RC Fujitsu 300GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive. Before buying or preparing to buy the Fujitsu MBA3300RC hard drive, I hope it will be helpful to your choice. Hard drives that are not well evaluated are easy to damage, and the cost of hard drive repair is generally not cheap. Let’s take a look at the Fujitsu MBA3300RC hard drive 5 star customer reviews and 1 star customer reviews, through this article, you can have a certain understanding of this hard drive.
Fujitsu MBA3300RC 5 Star Reviews 
- I bought 2 and put them in a Raid 0 configuration on a Marvel SAS embedded contoller on a Asus P6T6 WS Revolution motherboard and I am very pleased so far.
- high speed and performance. works flawless very noisy over power my 10 fans. but that just means its working.
- More recently these drives have been going offline thus bringing down my Raid0. When I reboot and go into the controller bios I can re-import drives into the Raid and boot back up. However this issue continues to happen at least once a week.
- Is actually fairly quiet for a 15K drive, but not as quiet as the Hitachi Desktstar SATA drive. Wish motherboards had on-board SAS. Using with Supermicro server board, two Xeon 3GHx 5450s and 8GB RAM…FB DIMMS are the performance bottleneck, hard disk access is off the charts!
- Due to speed of these drives they can cause problems with Sata drives 15000-rpm vrs 7200-rpm try to keep Sata drives as far from them as your case will allow.
- The power and data connector are solid linked together. meaning you can’t connect a standard SATA power cable from your power supply to this drive, nor will the SAS cable from my LSI Megaraid card connect to the drive. Now I’m at a loss. This drive appears to be made for backplane installation and not stand alone PC mounting.
- We use these drives in our “legacy” servers now but they are tough. The first set came with servers delivered in 2009 and 2010. Of the 8 drives those servers contained three have been replaced. Only 3. This is 2019. They ran 24/7 save a hurricane or two and I would buy the “new” old stock if I needed more of these workhorses. Sorry WD and Seagate, I used you guys for the first two replacements and have had to replace those once since then!
- Please be noted, that this SAS drive is NOT suitable for Dell PoverVault storage arrays (at least not for MD3000). You should use there special Dell spare part with a Dell frimware.
Just wanted to share info for others not to make same mistake.
Fujitsu MBA3300RC 1 Star Reviews
- These drives are only offered 1 year RMA coverage by Fujitsu.
Questions & Answers
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What is the Firmware Code written on the label? (i.e. D305…)
The Firmware Code is 0103. - is compatible for dell precision 690
The Fujitsu MBA3300RC SAS hard drive is compatible with Dell Precision 690 system with integrated SAS 5ir RAID controller.