Storage Devices and Controllers

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1. Recommended controllers for Unraid 1 2 3 4 22

   By JorgeB, January 29, 2021
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   • JorgeB
   • July 10

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

   By madburg, May 3, 2011
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   • Dick Dawson
   • July 4

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

   By JorgeB, October 15, 2020
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   • JorgeB
   • June 30

4. Failed Drives 1 2 3

   By SSD, May 13, 2015
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   • Geck0
   • March 12

5. Ironwolf vs Exos for this purpose

   By shazza6887, 1 hour ago
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   • shazza6887
   • 1 hour ago

6. ZFS Cache Pool SMART Error

   By Steve Ford, 2 hours ago
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   • Steve Ford
   • 2 hours ago

7. renewed drive?

   By TODDLT, Sunday at 01:36 AM
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   • whipdancer
   • 5 hours ago

8. Looking to add additional drives externally.

   By DCox88, July 21
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   • JonathanM
   • Monday at 11:10 AM

9. Best Format for an External Drive (outside the array)

   By TODDLT, July 15
   • 15 replies
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   • _cjd_
   • Sunday at 10:58 AM

10. Oculink for external enclosure. Anybody used this brand?

    By Geck0, July 19
    • 1 reply
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    • Kilrah
    • July 19

11. Device is Disabled, Contents Emulated

    By updatenil, December 18, 2023
    • 15 replies
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    • updatenil
    • July 17

12. Cable/adapter that adds SATA DevSleep ability?

    By mgutt, September 22, 2020
    • 1 reply
    • 700 views
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    • kinoapparatom
    • July 15

13. Questions about setting up SSD cache

    By asbath, April 12
    • 7 replies
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    • wkellogg
    • July 13

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

    By coreylane, February 12, 2023
    • 19 replies
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    • Keexrean
    • July 12

15. Move to rack mount setup | Questions about HBA and backplane

    By peace-keeping-villa8590, July 7
    • 8 replies
    • 248 views
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    • peace-keeping-villa8590
    • July 12

16. Boot error w Broadcom HBA 9400-16i - unable to load MPT Bios Fault 0Dh

    By cbapel, September 22, 2023
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    • ZerkerEOD
    • July 11

17. Cache pools - 1tb NVME Gen3 and 1tb NVME gen 4

    By qal1h, July 5
    • 1 reply
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    • qal1h
    • July 10

18. QNAP TL-D400s - seems to work fine

    By yeah_mike, July 9
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    • yeah_mike
    • July 9

19. My Supermicro server should be much faster than this.....

    By jesseasi, July 3
    • 7 replies
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    • jesseasi
    • July 5

20. Unmountable: Unsupported partition layout

    By Foofaraw, July 3
    • 2 replies
    • 135 views
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    • JorgeB
    • July 3

21. Do i “need” SSD cache pool?

    By kakburken, June 28
    • 12 replies
    • 339 views
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    • kakburken
    • July 1

22. Drive not powering up

    By Ceco, January 27
    • 4 replies
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    • gacpac
    • July 1

23. SOLVED - how to ID if my hard drive is using SMR or PMR Technology

    By chris_netsmart, June 27
    • 5 replies
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    • chris_netsmart
    • June 27

24. Hard drive size sweet spot may be 18TB, Sept. 2021 1 2

    By xrqp, September 5, 2021
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    • xrqp
    • June 26

25. Vertically mounted HDD's

    By DarB, June 25
    • 6 replies
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    • DarB
    • June 26

26. Western Digital don't "spin down"

    By Jazer, February 17, 2023
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    • Zonediver
    • June 23

27. Can't stop the array because the system can't unmount an already unmounted disk

    By jgtierney, June 22
    • 2 replies
    • 191 views
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    • jgtierney
    • June 22

28. SSD in storage array?

    By DarB, June 18
    • 3 replies
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    • _cjd_
    • June 22

29. Use a QNAP TL-D1600S Expansion DAS to expand existing Setup

    By timethrow, February 14, 2021
    • 14 replies
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    • BRiT
    • June 18

30. Change NVMe Temp Sensor in Dashboard?

    By ConnerVT, June 8
    • 3 replies
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    • ConnerVT
    • June 16

31. Connectiong Drives to SFF PC Via LSI 9206-16e Card - Drives unseen

    By Tuntira, June 5
    • 9 replies
    • 340 views
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    • JorgeB
    • June 15

32. So your new SAS (or SATA) drive won't start (spin up)? 1 2

    By doron, October 4, 2019
    • 27 replies
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    • doron
    • June 14

33. CRC Error just poped up ...

    By SiRMarlon, January 20, 2023
    • 6 replies
    • 837 views
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    • DarB
    • June 12

34. New Build - Testing HBA SAS Controllers

    By dmiles34, October 5, 2023
    • 11 replies
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    • JorgeB
    • June 12

35. Need some guidance regarding SAS expansion cards

    By Pandemic, June 11
    • 3 replies
    • 231 views
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    • JorgeB
    • June 11

36. Unraid crash with LSI 9207-8i controller

    By Stembo, January 11
    • 8 replies
    • 783 views
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    • Zonediver
    • June 7

37. NVME SSD Drive in Array

    By mbc0, June 6
    • 2 replies
    • 294 views
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    • mbc0
    • June 7

38. Unraid (R620 w/ LSI SAS2308/9206-16e) can't see SAS drives connected to MD1200

    By dealbakerjones, January 21
    • 14 replies
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    • Quadrapole
    • June 6

39. ZFS cache and consumer SSD

    By Lebowski89, June 5
    • 1 reply
    • 301 views
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    • JorgeB
    • June 5

40. Best HBA controller for 18TB drives

    By hallamnet, June 2
    • 5 replies
    • 325 views
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    • JorgeB
    • June 4

41. PCI-e Sata expansion card 1 2 3 4

    By elnevera, March 5, 2019
    • 79 replies
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    • MrAndyBurns
    • June 2

42. Not all disks recognized by BIOS (reverse breakout)

    By Georg, March 28, 2020
    • 13 replies
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    • MammothJerk
    • June 2

43. New SAS HDD not being detected as a device

    By Neuron89, May 23
    • 5 replies
    • 330 views
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    • electron286
    • June 2

44. Adaptec 72405 to Replace Existing Array on LSI 9210-8i ?

    By jivetrky, June 19, 2020
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    • DevXen
    • June 2

45. Zfs raid 0 + Raid 1 configuration question

    By tylerdotdo, May 30
    • 3 replies
    • 278 views
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    • JorgeB
    • June 2

46. Replace drive?

    By Tyk, May 30
    • 2 replies
    • 285 views
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    • Tyk
    • May 31

47. Cloning windows formatted hard drive for unraid

    By HoochShepherd, May 25
    • 18 replies
    • 442 views
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    • JonathanM
    • May 31

48. Replacing 8TB Seagate Iron Wolf HDD (Options Same HDD Drive, Samsung QVO or PM Enterprise Drive)

    By vast, May 26
    • 9 replies
    • 444 views
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    • JorgeB
    • May 29

49. HBA expansion card

    By malaki86, May 27
    • 1 reply
    • 266 views
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    • JorgeB
    • May 27

50. SAS Expander for DELL H310 HBA card

    By dcatvn, May 20
    • 2 replies
    • 290 views
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    • dcatvn
    • May 20