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Maybe they can/will be making the jack on the drive a unique standard color?

Still a bad idea. At the very least they should make sure that nothing is fried on either side if you plug one of these drives into a SAS controller, or a SAS drive into a backplane that expects to see dual Ethernet on those pins.

Even though (for example) USB3 is blue connectors, it's interoperable if you plug USB2 gear in.

Good question. That sounds like a reasonable idea for quickly identify when looking for a replacement in the spares closet.

unless you're colorblind, in which case you're SOL.

I have a good feeling that there will be some text as well. :) FWIW we imagine that field replacements will be less common and simply run with 'dead drives' will be more common.

Incidentally, because the drive is moving to a key/value model vs. sectors it means that the useful life of the device will be much better. This is because the device can manage bad sectors itself vs having that be the responsibility of the filesystem. So the drive would just report lower % capacity.

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