Hello xkaliburx,
What happens when you insert the new drive the EMC san will spin the drive up to read the firmware on the drive. If it doesn’t read the EMC firmware on the drive then it will power the drive back down & mark it as removed. So what you will need to do is to confirm that you will need to find out if that drive# which normal starts with ST & will look similar to this (ST005049692). If you can find that # and you have access to EMC powerlink site you can go to the following link and it has the list of support harddrives that can go into their systems. https://powerlink.emc.com/nsepn/webapps/btg548664833igtcuup4826/km/live1/en_US/Offering_Technical/Technical_Documentation/All_CLARiiON_Disk_and_FLARE_OE_Matrices.pdf?mtcs=ZXZlbnRUeXBlPUttQ2xpY2tTZWFyY2hSZXN1bHRzRXZlbnQsZG9jdW1lbnRJZD0wOTAxNDA2NjgwNmYzZTEyLGRhdGFTb3VyY2U9RENUTV9lbl9VU18w
I will send you an email listed to your username that will have the PDF doc if you don't have access to powerlink.
Please let us know if you have any other questions.