Storage Devices and Controllers

1977 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
   • 199335 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
   • 30630 views
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   • ProphetSe7en
   • May 8

4. Failed Drives

   By SSD, May 13, 2015
   • 14 replies
   • 6804 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
   • 21370 views
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   • Tybio
   • January 23

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

   By SSD, July 7, 2014
   • 71 replies
   • 110478 views
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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
   • 64860 views
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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
   • 28105 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
    • 68590 views
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    • karateo
    • December 24, 2016

11. Preclear and Failed Drives 1 2 3

    By DoeBoye, April 27, 2011
    • 67 replies
    • 46034 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
    • 101794 views
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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
    • 40877 views
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    • BRiT
    • February 23, 2011

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

    By axipher, May 5, 2017
    • 15 replies
    • 944 views
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    • J.Nerdy
    • 22 hours ago

15. Disk Unmountable - No File System after reboot

    By peezy45, Thursday at 08:36 PM
    • 6 replies
    • 62 views
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    • peezy45
    • Friday at 09:59 PM

16. What Hard Drives are you using?

    By flambot, Thursday at 07:56 AM
    • 2 replies
    • 57 views
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    • flambot
    • Thursday at 10:52 PM

17. Moving a bunch of hdd from different controllers

    By svennand, Thursday at 04:46 PM
    • 2 replies
    • 45 views
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    • svennand
    • Thursday at 06:33 PM

18. Q: Best method of swapping out Cache array

    By Warrentheo, Monday at 08:33 PM
    • 3 replies
    • 74 views
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    • Warrentheo
    • Thursday at 02:45 AM

19. SSD, HDD, and cache

    By Nanobug, Tuesday at 09:03 AM
    • 15 replies
    • 114 views
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    • Nanobug
    • Wednesday at 01:12 PM

20. Hardware vs Software RAID controller

    By Nanobug, August 12
    • 16 replies
    • 144 views
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    • Nanobug
    • Wednesday at 10:57 AM

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

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

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

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

23. Size of system drive

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

24. Looking for 2tb ssd for write cache

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

25. WD My Book (WD White)

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

26. SSD cache on Dell R710 - suggestions?

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

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

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

28. SSD as data array without parity disk

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

29. Hot standby or swap smaller drive?

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

30. Combine Sata Controllers?

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

31. Which controller should I buy?

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

32. 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
    • 126 views
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    • ed.
    • July 29

33. 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
    • 129 views
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    • jbartlett
    • July 24

34. Seagate Drive Lineup

    By TODDLT, March 9, 2017
    • 11 replies
    • 1297 views
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    • jbartlett
    • July 24

35. SAS Breakout Cable

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

36. Primary cache drive failing swap question

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

37. Water Panther drives?

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

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

    By khelm, May 31, 2013
    • 33 replies
    • 8686 views
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    • deaerator
    • July 20

39. 12GB backplane witha 6GB controller?

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

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

    By flambot, September 21, 2013
    • 2 replies
    • 1234 views
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    • KC
    • July 18

41. SSD Array for unraid?

    By Shinta0Saint, July 29, 2018
    • 12 replies
    • 3218 views
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    • BRiT
    • July 13

42. Multiple LSI SAS Controllers

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

43. Sonnet storage

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

44. Drive fail?

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

45. SMR Host Managed Hard Drive Questions

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

46. Marvell 88SE9230 not working

    By nico1995doom, June 9, 2016
    • 11 replies
    • 1924 views
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    • fluisterben
    • July 7

47. issues reading some disks on flashed LSI

    By sean13128, December 23, 2017
    • 11 replies
    • 2014 views
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    • Jmoney
    • July 4

48. Upgrade CASE and HBA controllers

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

49. SAS dual port mode (speed over 12Gbps)

    By JanRov, July 3
    • 0 replies
    • 114 views
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    • JanRov
    • July 3

50. Motherboard RAID Controller

    By teitzelthomas, June 30
    • 3 replies
    • 130 views
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    • teitzelthomas
    • July 1