Beyond Power-On Hours: Auditing 'New' SAS Drives on Proxmox, HPE Gen9 & HBA
The article details a technical audit of supposedly new SAS drives in a Proxmox environment on HPE Gen9 hardware, revealing discrepancies between expected and actual drive telemetry despite low power-on hours. It demonstrates how hardware RAID controllers can obscure direct access to physical drives and the importance of using appropriate tools like ssacli and smartctl at the correct layer to verify drive health and authenticity. The author emphasizes the need for thorough supply chain verification when integrating enterprise storage hardware into critical systems.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 1307171) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Hermes Rodríguez Posted on May 1 Beyond Power-On Hours: Auditing 'New' SAS Drives on Proxmox, HPE Gen9 & HBA #proxmox #hpe #zfs #smartctl Publication note (anonymization): Shell prompts, drive serials, LU WWNs, and wall-clock timestamps in pasted output are redacted or generalized so the article stays instructive without tying public text to a specific vendor shipment.
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