Storage Devices and Controllers

3115 topics in this forum

1. LSI Controller FW updates IR/IT modes 1 2 3 4 71

   By madburg, May 3, 2011
   • 1.8k replies
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   • stanger89
   • Tuesday at 06:21 PM

2. Recommended controllers for Unraid 1 2 3 4 13

   By JorgeB, January 29, 2021
   • 300 replies
   • 74.6k views
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   • JorgeB
   • Tuesday at 04:21 PM

3. Failed Drives 1 2 3

   By SSD, May 13, 2015
   • 54 replies
   • 19.8k views
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   • coolspot
   • November 6, 2022

4. How to upgrade an LSI HBA firmware using Unraid 1 2 3

   By JorgeB, October 15, 2020
   • 56 replies
   • 22.2k views
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   • JorgeB
   • October 17, 2022

5. Areca Contoller Configuration for unRAID 1 2 3 4 5

   By SSD, March 2, 2015
   • 118 replies
   • 58.3k views
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   • SimonF
   • May 20, 2021

6. Seagate 8TB Shingled Drives in UnRAID 1 2 3 4 21

   By garycase, April 25, 2015
   • 523 replies
   • 157.6k views
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   • Lolight
   • May 15, 2021

7. HPA a.k.a. why are two identical drives different sizes?

   By Rajahal, February 9, 2011
   • 10 replies
   • 53k views
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   • S80_UK
   • February 10, 2020

8. BackBlaze Reports 1 2 3

   By SSD, October 3, 2014
   • 62 replies
   • 39.1k views
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   • Tybio
   • January 23, 2019

9. Plan for adding external JBOD to array

   By sonofdbn, 23 hours ago
   • 3 replies
   • 79 views
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   • JorgeB
   • 5 hours ago

10. Pcie to nvme expansion card

    By robti, Saturday at 10:34 AM
    • 3 replies
    • 73 views
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    • scs3jb
    • Yesterday at 01:53 PM

11. Oculink PCI-E 4x to NVMe Gen4?

    By spamalam, February 28
    • 5 replies
    • 312 views
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    • scs3jb
    • Yesterday at 01:49 PM

12. Latest P20 firmware for 9201-16e?

    By tazire, Wednesday at 03:38 PM
    • 4 replies
    • 111 views
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    • JorgeB
    • Saturday at 08:28 AM

13. NZBGET very slow unrar.

    By MosteanuV, Friday at 08:40 PM
    • 1 reply
    • 69 views
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    • MosteanuV
    • Friday at 09:59 PM

14. Host Managed SMR

    By plarsson, Wednesday at 03:38 PM
    • 1 reply
    • 117 views
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    • JorgeB
    • Wednesday at 04:19 PM

15. Unraid bricked my SSD

    By Renel, March 13
    • 3 replies
    • 168 views
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    • JorgeB
    • March 13

16. Error Unmountable: Unsupported partition layout

    By edon, March 12
    • 2 replies
    • 171 views
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    • edon
    • March 12

17. [SOLVED] HP H240 not showing all Drives on HP DL380e G8

    By WhiteGuardian, August 29, 2021
    • 6 replies
    • 1.9k views
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    • Stuart Greig
    • March 11

18. WARNING: Crucial MX500 SSDs world of pain, stay away from these

    By ceddybu, February 12
    • 8 replies
    • 1.2k views
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    • mh79
    • March 11

19. Data array disks connected via USB3

    By mrrick, March 10
    • 4 replies
    • 217 views
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    • trurl
    • March 10

20. Sata/SAS controllers tested (real world max throughput during parity check) 1 2 3

    By JorgeB, September 21, 2015
    • 71 replies
    • 67.5k views
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    • Soren Hansen
    • March 9

21. Which SAS card?

    By Suse User, March 8
    • 1 reply
    • 222 views
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    • JorgeB
    • March 8

22. Issues with 9207-8e and MD1200

    By faring, March 6
    • 4 replies
    • 219 views
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    • faring
    • March 6

23. Unassigned Devices Creating and Mounting XFS Encrypted Volumes...

    By Mysticle31, March 6
    • 2 replies
    • 217 views
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    • dlandon
    • March 6

24. How long clear usually takes on 18TB?

    By opentoe, May 14, 2022
    • 7 replies
    • 1.2k views
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    • ConnerVT
    • March 4

25. What do you do with old failed drives?

    By markfox85, March 2
    • 6 replies
    • 264 views
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    • ConnerVT
    • March 4

26. Recomendations for the old system componates after converting to Unraid

    By Stephenph, March 2
    • 1 reply
    • 259 views
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    • GRRRRRRR
    • March 4

27. I did not imagine that a SAS hba would use all that power

    By Tipika, March 2
    • 3 replies
    • 257 views
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    • JorgeB
    • March 2

28. Disks Not showing in Unassigned Devices

    By GregB, February 28
    • 3 replies
    • 237 views
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    • trurl
    • February 28

29. PCI-e Sata expansion card 1 2 3

    By elnevera, March 5, 2019
    • 68 replies
    • 52.5k views
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    • lepa71
    • February 27

30. Multi-bay enclosures 1 2

    By steve1977, February 23
    • 25 replies
    • 607 views
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    • Vr2Io
    • February 26

31. New Inexpensive 24 port SATA PCIE Card

    By bing281, October 27, 2022
    • 13 replies
    • 1.3k views
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    • Kilrah
    • February 24

32. RAID over thunderbolt

    By elmuziko, February 23
    • 2 replies
    • 276 views
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    • elmuziko
    • February 23

33. Intel Cache Showdown - Optane vs 670p (halp plz)

    By hsingh314, February 23
    • 1 reply
    • 291 views
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    • trurl
    • February 23

34. Recommend me some reliable M2 Cache drives

    By WardyBoi, February 19
    • 3 replies
    • 414 views
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    • C4RBON
    • February 22

35. Which is better?

    By Trackpads, February 11
    • 15 replies
    • 478 views
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    • Trackpads
    • February 22

36. JMB575 on m2 and how to power HDDs

    By fmmsf, February 16
    • 11 replies
    • 577 views
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    • JorgeB
    • February 22

37. SSD pool upgrade

    By caplam, February 20
    • 2 replies
    • 326 views
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    • caplam
    • February 20

38. How to verify if a HDD is new?

    By paqman, February 14
    • 17 replies
    • 498 views
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    • whipdancer
    • February 19

39. HDD / SDD speed question

    By chuga, February 18
    • 6 replies
    • 397 views
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    • chuga
    • February 19

40. Moving to 4U case.. SAS HBA and Expander selection help and recommendations

    By ABS, February 19
    • 0 replies
    • 296 views
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    • ABS
    • February 19

41. Western Digital don't "spin down"

    By Jazer, February 17
    • 4 replies
    • 448 views
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    • Jazer
    • February 18

42. Help: Drives are not recognized by Unraid 1 2

    By ranukaj, October 1, 2017
    • 40 replies
    • 12.4k views
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    • kysdaddy
    • February 17

43. Asus Pike

    By Dextros, June 14, 2016
    • 11 replies
    • 2.6k views
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    • ocyberbum
    • February 14

44. SATA3 vs SATA2. Help needed

    By flncazacu, February 13
    • 1 reply
    • 312 views
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    • JorgeB
    • February 13

45. SAS Drives & Connection

    By deanpelton, February 13
    • 1 reply
    • 351 views
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    • SimonF
    • February 13

46. Solved: 20TB SAS drives not supported in Unraid

    By Steviewunda, January 4
    • 6 replies
    • 723 views
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    • wkellogg
    • February 13

47. Help with transfer rate volatility and stalling

    By Kboogie, February 6
    • 6 replies
    • 457 views
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    • JorgeB
    • February 12

48. Dual parity drive upgrade question

    By 3560freak, February 2
    • 11 replies
    • 513 views
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    • 3560freak
    • February 10

49. MSA60 With Dell H200E

    By Blair2499, February 4, 2021
    • 1 reply
    • 660 views
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    • renfuyu
    • February 9

50. Drives not recognised - Already replaced cables

    By skot4th, March 17, 2022
    • 6 replies
    • 585 views
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    • Decto
    • February 8