There is embedded firmware with the Cisco drives and the third party drives will not work. I think you will have better luck purchasing the proper hard drive via stocking warehouses, the product IDs for the hard drives are: For WAE-574 the product ID is: DISK-SATA2-500GB and For WAE-674 the product ID is: DISK-300GB-6/7SER via google I found a few here: http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/Cisco-hard-drive-500-GB-SATA-300/1748202.aspx http://www.amazon.com/Cisco-DISK-300GB-6-7SER-Hard-drive/dp/B004LNCECO http://www.amazon.com/Serial-ATA-Internal-Hard-Drive/dp/B000W3VJ4Q
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The WAE 274/474/574/674/7341/7371 all reached End of Sale in August 2012. WAAS release 5.3.x is the final release which will support these now end of sale platforms. The announcement for WAAS release 5.3.x in the release notes as being the final release supporting these now end of sale platforms is to assist customers in proper migration and software upgrade planning. Cisco has provided major feature functionality well after the end of sale for the WAE 274/474/574/674/7341/7371 in August 2012, for example WAAS release 5.1 in December 2012 and release 5.2 in June 2013 were released well after the end of sale and provided new major features and functionality for the now end of sale WAE 274/474/574/674/7341/ 7371. These end of sale platforms will continue to be supported in the WAAS release 5.3.x maintenance release-train cycle which will continue with software maintenance releases in accordance with standard Cisco policy for software end of sale. Software maintenance releases will continue in the WAAS release 5.3.x until the end of sale for WAAS release 5.3.x is announced and the end of sale milestone is reached at a later date and the now end of sale platforms will continue to be supported with release 5.3.x as needed. This is NOT an announcement of stopping support for these now end of sale platforms and these platforms will continue to be supported in release 5.3.x. At a later date the end of sale/support for release 5.3.x will be considered/announced and after the first year after the end of sale for release 5.3.x we will provide bug fixes, maintenance releases, workarounds or patches for a period of 4 years in accordance with standard Cisco end of sale policy.
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Unfortunately the Cisco WAVE 574 and it's rail mount kit is no longer available and is now reached End of Sale as of 17-Aug-2012. The WAVE 574 is an OEM of the Hewlett-Packard Proliant DL320G5p Server Series HSTNS-3160, here is a rail kit for it for $88 I found on eBay here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/451459-001-HP-Complete-Rail-Kit-Proliant-DL320G5-DL160G5-DL320G5p-/370599044498?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item56496ca592 If you search at CDW and other similar suppliers using HP part number I think they will likely have it too….
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