THE ENTERPRISE CAPACITY 3.5 V.3 4TB SAS 6GB/S

As usual we received two drives for RAID0 tests in bulk/OEM packaging.

The housing of the drives is identical with the one used by Seagate for their SATA III brothers as expected (slight differences compared to their predecessors).

Both drives are amongst the first ones to leave the factory before the renaming from Constellation ES.3 to Enterprise Capacity 3.5 V.3. So at the large sticker placed at the top we see the Seagate logo, drive connectivity, product number, serial number, electrical requirements, warning/certification logos, country of manufacture, installed firmware version and the coded factory roll out date (2012-12-14).

The standard mounting holes are present on both sides.

Once again at the rear we see that Seagate has placed all of the components in the other side of the PCB for extra protection.

Although the SAS connector is similar to the SATA connector you can't plug an SAS drive on a SATA controller (SAS controllers however are also SATA compatible).