Storage Devices and Controllers

1978 topics in this forum

1. LSI Controller FW updates IR/IT modes 1 2 3 4 66

   By madburg, May 3, 2011
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   • Jonny
   • August 1

2. SATA Controller Cards 1 2 3 4 26

   By Rajahal, April 16, 2011
   • 641 replies
   • 199625 views
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   • johnnie.black
   • July 30

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

   By SSD, March 2, 2015
   • 111 replies
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   • ProphetSe7en
   • May 8

4. Failed Drives

   By SSD, May 13, 2015
   • 14 replies
   • 6835 views
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   • Talonius
   • March 15

5. Seagate 8TB Shingled Drives in UnRAID 1 2 3 4 19

   By garycase, April 25, 2015
   • 474 replies
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   • wheel
   • January 24

6. BackBlaze Reports 1 2 3

   By SSD, October 3, 2014
   • 62 replies
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   • Tybio
   • January 23

7. *** SEAGATE 5TB EXTERNALS - MYSTERY SOLVED *** 1 2 3

   By SSD, July 7, 2014
   • 71 replies
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   • garycase
   • December 24, 2018

8. Which 4 TB drive should I buy? 1 2 3 4 6

   By Rajahal, March 29, 2012
   • 131 replies
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   • Switchblade
   • January 30, 2018

9. [SOLVED] Disabling RAID from AOC-SASLP-MV8 firmware .21 1 2

   By TheWombat, April 21, 2013
   • 34 replies
   • 28159 views
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   • Fuggin
   • June 7, 2017

10. Which 3 TB drive should I buy? 1 2 3 4

    By Rajahal, January 21, 2011
    • 97 replies
    • 68663 views
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    • karateo
    • December 24, 2016

11. Preclear and Failed Drives 1 2 3

    By DoeBoye, April 27, 2011
    • 67 replies
    • 46092 views
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    • jtcweb
    • November 6, 2014

12. Which 2 TB drive should I buy? 1 2 3 4 12

    By Rajahal, January 4, 2011
    • 283 replies
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    • BobPhoenix
    • July 14, 2013

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

    By Rajahal, February 9, 2011
    • 9 replies
    • 40895 views
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    • BRiT
    • February 23, 2011

14. SSD running hot?

    By superloopy1, Monday at 08:14 PM
    • 4 replies
    • 85 views
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    • Michael_P
    • 12 hours ago

15. Anyone Tried a SAS 3008 or Perc h330 Controller? 1 2 3

    By mbc0, January 18
    • 65 replies
    • 1783 views
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    • Sleyk Esrun
    • Tuesday at 06:38 PM

16. What is the best way to upgrade my entire array?

    By axipher, May 5, 2017
    • 15 replies
    • 979 views
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    • J.Nerdy
    • Saturday at 02:36 PM

17. Disk Unmountable - No File System after reboot

    By peezy45, August 15
    • 6 replies
    • 71 views
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    • peezy45
    • Friday at 09:59 PM

18. What Hard Drives are you using?

    By flambot, August 15
    • 2 replies
    • 73 views
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    • flambot
    • August 15

19. Moving a bunch of hdd from different controllers

    By svennand, August 15
    • 2 replies
    • 54 views
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    • svennand
    • August 15

20. Q: Best method of swapping out Cache array

    By Warrentheo, August 12
    • 3 replies
    • 89 views
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    • Warrentheo
    • August 15

21. SSD, HDD, and cache

    By Nanobug, August 13
    • 15 replies
    • 132 views
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    • Nanobug
    • August 14

22. Hardware vs Software RAID controller

    By Nanobug, August 12
    • 16 replies
    • 151 views
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    • Nanobug
    • August 14

23. Combo doesnt work? >>> Adaptec RAID 6805E + Intel RES2SV240

    By DaMAN, August 11
    • 1 reply
    • 60 views
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    • johnnie.black
    • August 12

24. Q: Will I see any improvement? 6Gb/s vs 12Gb/s

    By interwebtech, August 9
    • 2 replies
    • 109 views
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    • interwebtech
    • August 9

25. Size of system drive

    By svennand, August 8
    • 4 replies
    • 88 views
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    • svennand
    • August 8

26. Looking for 2tb ssd for write cache

    By Abula, August 7
    • 1 reply
    • 96 views
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    • testdasi
    • August 8

27. WD My Book (WD White)

    By gberg, August 8
    • 5 replies
    • 85 views
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    • Hoopster
    • August 8

28. SSD cache on Dell R710 - suggestions?

    By Underberg, May 19
    • 8 replies
    • 263 views
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    • Commodore
    • August 2

29. Drive Show under SCSI Devices, but not in the drop down....

    By indy90, November 27, 2018
    • 14 replies
    • 529 views
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    • civic95man
    • July 31

30. SSD as data array without parity disk

    By widdefmh, July 27
    • 5 replies
    • 145 views
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    • widdefmh
    • July 30

31. Hot standby or swap smaller drive?

    By acurcione, July 28
    • 2 replies
    • 94 views
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    • acurcione
    • July 29

32. Combine Sata Controllers?

    By CellDweller, July 29
    • 2 replies
    • 105 views
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    • CellDweller
    • July 29

33. Which controller should I buy?

    By Dovaka, July 29
    • 1 reply
    • 92 views
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    • johnnie.black
    • July 29

34. LSI 9201-16i + Intel RES2CV360 vs. Adaptec 71605H + an expander (Intel RES2CV360 or what?) vs. Adaptec 71605H + Intel RES2CV240

    By ed., July 29
    • 8 replies
    • 132 views
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    • ed.
    • July 29

35. Critique my motherboard, SATA and drive plan and give input on server upgrade for 10 drive array, 2 parity and 2 cache

    By tmchow, July 24
    • 4 replies
    • 134 views
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    • jbartlett
    • July 24

36. Seagate Drive Lineup

    By TODDLT, March 9, 2017
    • 11 replies
    • 1308 views
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    • jbartlett
    • July 24

37. SAS Breakout Cable

    By Titus, July 23
    • 1 reply
    • 96 views
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    • johnnie.black
    • July 23

38. Primary cache drive failing swap question

    By thatnovaguy, July 18
    • 18 replies
    • 213 views
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    • johnnie.black
    • July 23

39. Water Panther drives?

    By heffe2001, July 19
    • 6 replies
    • 189 views
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    • heffe2001
    • July 23

40. Adaptec 72405 24 Port Controller Series 7 Controller - Compatible? 1 2

    By khelm, May 31, 2013
    • 33 replies
    • 8701 views
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    • deaerator
    • July 20

41. 12GB backplane witha 6GB controller?

    By DaMAN, July 19
    • 1 reply
    • 115 views
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    • johnnie.black
    • July 19

42. WD CAVIAR RED WD40EFRX 4TB - Are the the REDs being Discussed?

    By flambot, September 21, 2013
    • 2 replies
    • 1237 views
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    • KC
    • July 18

43. SSD Array for unraid?

    By Shinta0Saint, July 29, 2018
    • 12 replies
    • 3270 views
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    • BRiT
    • July 13

44. Multiple LSI SAS Controllers

    By DoItMyselfToo, June 20
    • 5 replies
    • 384 views
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    • DoItMyselfToo
    • July 11

45. Sonnet storage

    By caplam, July 11
    • 0 replies
    • 102 views
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    • caplam
    • July 11

46. Drive fail?

    By _jonte, February 26
    • 5 replies
    • 252 views
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    • Iceman24
    • July 10

47. SMR Host Managed Hard Drive Questions

    By blackbirdz, July 10
    • 0 replies
    • 32 views
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    • blackbirdz
    • July 10

48. Marvell 88SE9230 not working

    By nico1995doom, June 9, 2016
    • 11 replies
    • 1938 views
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    • fluisterben
    • July 7

49. issues reading some disks on flashed LSI

    By sean13128, December 23, 2017
    • 11 replies
    • 2027 views
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    • Jmoney
    • July 4

50. Upgrade CASE and HBA controllers

    By makarai, July 3
    • 2 replies
    • 146 views
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    • makarai
    • July 3