Reviews of the MBA3300RC Fujitsu 300GB SAS 3.5″ Hard Drive. Fujitsu MBA3300RC—a storage device that belongs to a specific era and occupies a distinct position in the market. Whether this is a brand-new mainstream drive or a decades-old retro component, our goal remains the same: to evaluate it fairly within its intended context. We will examine its physical specifications, interface compatibility, real-world transfer performance, acoustic behavior, thermal output, and long-term reliability considerations. 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.