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Storage Devices and Controllers

Discuss HDDs, SSDs, and the controllers to which they connect!

1915 topics in this forum

  1. LSI Controller FW updates IR/IT modes

    By madburg,
    • 1604 replies
    • 798657 views

  2. Failed Drives

    By SSD,
    • 14 replies
    • 5891 views

  3. SATA Controller Cards

    By Rajahal,
    • 628 replies
    • 188942 views

  4. Seagate 8TB Shingled Drives in UnRAID

    By garycase,
    • 474 replies
    • 70420 views

  5. BackBlaze Reports

    By SSD,
    • 62 replies
    • 19561 views

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

    By SSD,
    • 71 replies
    • 107088 views

  7. Areca Contoller Configuration for unRAID

    By SSD,
    • 109 replies
    • 27892 views

  8. Which 4 TB drive should I buy?

    By Rajahal,
    • 131 replies
    • 61825 views

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

    By TheWombat,
    • 34 replies
    • 26682 views

  10. Which 3 TB drive should I buy?

    By Rajahal,
    • 97 replies
    • 66545 views

  11. Preclear and Failed Drives

    By DoeBoye,
    • 67 replies
    • 44322 views

  12. Which 2 TB drive should I buy?

    By Rajahal,
    • 283 replies
    • 100614 views

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

    By Rajahal,
    • 9 replies
    • 40259 views

  14. Proper Expander usage

    By ProfitbotPro,
    • 2 replies
    • 46 views

  15. Adaptec 7805Q Unable to switch from RAID to HBA

    By ptr727,
    • 0 replies
    • 13 views

  16. How to use external HDD

    By gweari,
    • 1 reply
    • 28 views

  17. Solutions: Shucked WD 8TB Easystore 3.3v PIN Issue

    By bmilcs,
    • 9 replies
    • 1353 views

  18. 8TB 7200 rpm drive

    By opentoe,
    • 3 replies
    • 141 views

  19. Help me decide which drive to use for parity

    By Art4security,
    • 3 replies
    • 90 views

  20. Need consumer motherboard that support LSI 9201-8i IT Mode

    By EmualDave,
    • 2 replies
    • 85 views

  21. Cache drive. Solution to my headache?

    By Johan76,
    • 0 replies
    • 70 views

  22. Hard Disk Sentinel

    By Sabot,
    • 8 replies
    • 1094 views

  23. Array setup

    By frodr,
    • 6 replies
    • 117 views

  24. Optane 900P for cache drive?

    By Blindsay,
    • 9 replies
    • 815 views

  25. Help with Understanding on Drive Selection

    By Nano,
    • 5 replies
    • 137 views

  26. To Mix or Not to Mix SSD Cache

    By Nano,
    • 1 reply
    • 99 views

  27. Building list of Motherboard that Support LSI/IBM SAS Controller

    By EmualDave,
    • 0 replies
    • 98 views

  28. Which LSI card?

    By Odom,
    • 4 replies
    • 160 views

  29. finally found a 4 controller USB card that works

    By scratch,
    • 0 replies
    • 110 views

  30. (SOLVED) Unable to write to flash drive

    By cracksilver,
    • 10 replies
    • 185 views

  31. Adaptec RAID 71605 setup in HBA mode? Bottleneck with 16 drives?

    By enmesh-parisian-latest,
    • 2 replies
    • 501 views

  32. COMRESET failed (errno=-32)

    By oh-tomo,
    • 26 replies
    • 494 views

  33. SAS Recommendation, LSI 16i or Extender?

    By mbc0,
    • 20 replies
    • 365 views

  34. How much cache?

    By Bustom5,
    • 1 reply
    • 197 views

  35. Odd problem with new drives

    By Kevin,
    • 0 replies
    • 82 views

  36. Initial Storage Settings

    By Paulohnk,
    • 5 replies
    • 145 views

  37. Is this drive usable or trash?

    By Everend,
    • 1 reply
    • 118 views

  38. Question re: LSI controller

    By DavidInDE,
    • 2 replies
    • 121 views

  39. HP 689576-001 LSI SAS9212-4i PCI-E x8 SAS/SATA 6GB/S 4 Port Raid Controller Card

    By Strubdog,
    • 14 replies
    • 199 views

  40. PCI-X slot SATA RAID (JBOD) card for Win7 x64

    By smilem,
    • 3 replies
    • 102 views

  41. Device is disabled, Device emulated?

    By TheBawse,
    • 1 reply
    • 89 views

  42. Current Pending Sector Count

    By x-null-x,
    • 1 reply
    • 107 views

  43. Optiplex 7010 MT - Can I mix 2 HGST He 8tb Enterprise drives with 2 3Tb Seagate NAS drives?

    By BigSpoonzz,
    • 2 replies
    • 147 views

  44. [SOLVED] [6.6.7] New installation, very low parity build speed.

    By Talonius,
    • 5 replies
    • 189 views

  45. New hard drives not shown in BIOS

    By djlcurly,
    • 2 replies
    • 118 views

  46. Syba 4-port SATA III PCIe 2.0 Controller Card (SD-PEX40099)

    By Strubdog,
    • 1 reply
    • 124 views

  47. SAS Expander Speed Concerns

    By DeathByDentures,
    • 4 replies
    • 142 views

  48. Which speed do I get on the drives when using expander backplane.

    By MvL,
    • 28 replies
    • 1946 views

  49. LSI OEM Internal SAS SATA 9211-8i 6Gbps 8 Ports HBA PCI-E RAID Controller, will it work?

    By eikum,
    • 4 replies
    • 777 views

  50. Mechanical Cache Recommendations??

    By andymiller,
    • 0 replies
    • 87 views