Storage Devices and Controllers

1876 topics in this forum

1. LSI Controller FW updates IR/IT modes

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   By madburg, May 3, 2011
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2. SATA Controller Cards

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   By Rajahal, April 16, 2011
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   • Frank1940
   • January 30

3. Seagate 8TB Shingled Drives in UnRAID

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   By garycase, April 25, 2015
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4. BackBlaze Reports

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

5. *** SEAGATE 5TB EXTERNALS - MYSTERY SOLVED ***

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

6. Areca Contoller Configuration for unRAID

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   By SSD, March 2, 2015
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7. Which 4 TB drive should I buy?

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   By Rajahal, March 29, 2012
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8. Failed Drives

   By SSD, May 13, 2015
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   • November 6, 2017

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

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   By TheWombat, April 21, 2013
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10. Which 3 TB drive should I buy?

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    By Rajahal, January 21, 2011
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11. Preclear and Failed Drives

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    By DoeBoye, April 27, 2011
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    • jtcweb
    • November 6, 2014

12. Which 2 TB drive should I buy?

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    By Rajahal, January 4, 2011
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13. HPA a.k.a. why are two identical drives different sizes?

    By Rajahal, February 9, 2011
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    • BRiT
    • February 23, 2011

14. SAS expander card not working (Intel RES2SV240)

    By BeaverTerror, 14 hours ago
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    • johnnie.black
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15. Wanting to add more disks (JBOD) Advice needed

    By TeCH-Guruz, Saturday at 05:07 PM
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    • johnnie.black
    • Sunday at 10:53 PM

16. HBA for unraid

    By andymiller, Saturday at 06:27 PM
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    • andymiller
    • Sunday at 11:59 AM

17. Preclear before shucking?

    By tucansam, February 12
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    • hitman2158
    • Thursday at 10:11 AM

18. Unraid still doesn't support SAS disk spindown?

    By dajinn, Thursday at 10:04 AM
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    • johnnie.black
    • Thursday at 10:10 AM

19. Is this drive Okay?

    By Drezdun, February 13
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    • johnnie.black
    • February 13

20. New 10TB HDD fail after 342 hours and other concerns

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    By Wolfe, January 30
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    • trurl
    • February 12

21. Experience with Dell GTP9G HBA (SAS 9217-8i)

    By Forusim, February 11
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    • johnnie.black
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22. Need something beefier than a 9211-8i

    By Meller, January 16
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    • BRiT
    • February 11

23. Need help with my server built....

    By Jebelis, February 10
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    • Michael_P
    • February 10

24. SMART values of a HGST drive

    By hawihoney, February 9
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    • hawihoney
    • February 9

25. SAS Recommendation, LSI 16i or Extender?

    By mbc0, February 7
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    • mbc0
    • February 8

26. SAS Expander, parity check, rebuilding an array

    By volume, February 7
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    • johnnie.black
    • February 7

27. (SOLVED) SAS 9207-4I4E HOST BUS ADAPTER doesn't work?

    By cracksilver, February 7
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28. Removing drive

    By Zygizz, February 6
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    • johnnie.black
    • February 6

29. Favorite Drives?

    By squirrellydw, February 4
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    • BobPhoenix
    • February 4

30. Please help.

    By grinnell27, February 3
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    • grinnell27
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31. Dell H200 on Dell PowerEdge R710: Clarifications

    By sibi78, September 18, 2018
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32. Anyone Tried a SAS 3008 or Perc h330 Controller?

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    By mbc0, January 18
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33. General SMART Fails Questions

    By ccsnet, February 2
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34. M.2 SATA Controller?

    By jmcguire525, February 1
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    • Hoopster
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35. Upgrading - Dual Parity?

    By CowboyRedBeard, January 28
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    • trurl
    • January 30

36. How to setup and configure existing Unraid setup with new LSI 9211-8i?

    By unRaide, January 21
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    • unRaide
    • January 29

37. COMRESET failed (errno=-32)

    By oh-tomo, January 13
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38. Please Take a look at all my Drive Benchmark Speeds, VERY SLOW SAS Drive!

    By mbc0, January 24
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39. SATA controllers on mobo or separate controller?

    By snowboardjoe, January 22
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    • mbc0
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40. Cascading Supermicro Expander Backplanes with JBOD cases

    By hawihoney, January 22
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41. Drive Show under SCSI Devices, but not in the drop down....

    By indy90, November 27, 2018
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42. Slow speeds on SSD with HDD parity

    By jmmrly, January 18
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    • January 19

43. 9207-8i VS 9211-8i

    By Draven, January 16
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    • johnnie.black
    • January 16

44. New Highpoint Rocket 750 - 40-Port SATA 6GB/s

    By Pauven, April 11, 2013
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45. H200 Modular (Embedded) on Dell R310

    By cosmoneer, January 3
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    • cosmoneer
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46. Would like to add 2x M.2 SSD as cache. How?

    By hawihoney, January 9
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    • tjb_altf4
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47. LSI 9211-8i (PERC H200) Can see drives, but can't access

    By ninjosh97, January 6
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    • johnnie.black
    • January 6

48. HBA + Sas expander info

    By beire, January 5
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    • johnnie.black
    • January 5

49. Drive Failed

    By PredatorMLK, January 5
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    • PredatorMLK
    • January 5

50. Trim suddenly failing on cache drive

    By rclifton, January 4
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    • johnnie.black
    • January 4