Storage Devices and Controllers

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

3428 topics in this forum

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

    By SSD,
    • 118 replies
    • 66.3k views

  2. BackBlaze Reports 1 2 3 4

    By SSD,
    • 79 replies
    • 46.4k views

  3. Failed Drives 1 2 3

    By SSD,
    • 59 replies
    • 25.8k views

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

    By JorgeB,
    • 84 replies
    • 44.7k views

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

    By Rajahal,
    • 10 replies
    • 56.3k views

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

    By madburg,
    • 1.8k replies
    • 1.3m views

  7. Recommended controllers for Unraid 1 2 3 4 22

    By JorgeB,
    • 532 replies
    • 205.6k views

  8. Seagate 8TB Shingled Drives in UnRAID 1 2 3 4 21

    By garycase,
    • 523 replies
    • 177.5k views

  9. Has anyone tried a LSI SAS 9201-16i HBA in unRAID?

    By Johnm,
    • 12 replies
    • 11.6k views

  10. LSI MegaRAID SAS MR 8888

    By tritron,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views

  11. LSI SAS1068E 4To Disk

    By abdellah,
    • 4 replies
    • 2k views

  12. The SSD Endurance Experiment: They're all dead

    By jumperalex,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.1k views

  13. ... is this SMART result concerning...

    By ChristianMingle,
    • 23 replies
    • 1.6k views

  14. ......................

    By mickjayjay,
    • 1 reply
    • 990 views

  15. "Critical Media Error" in ubuntu linux as VM passthrough

    By Bob Cadenza,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.1k views

  16. "SOLVED" Will this HP DL380 Gen9 Card work with My Lenovo 8i card?

    By Splatman2,
    • 9 replies
    • 2.2k views

  17. "Storage Option Boot Control" setting with LSI 9201-8i and Unraid - best practice?

    By ScoopGP,
    • 3 replies
    • 999 views

  18. (Resolved) Need help getting my M1015 up and running

    By lovingHDTV,
    • 11 replies
    • 6.4k views

  19. (SOLVED) ASM1166 compared to Dell Perc H310 PCIe SATA vs SAS HBA

    By Dr_Otter,
    • 4 replies
    • 3.2k views

  20. (SOLVED) Command Timeout 4

    By Danvic,
    • 5 replies
    • 2.4k views

  21. (SOLVED) Hard Drive Post-Read Verification FAIL (Part 2)

    By B Train,
    • 6 replies
    • 748 views

  22. (solved) hard drive smart reports

    By kingpin,
    • 8 replies
    • 5.3k views

  23. (Solved) is this drive good or bad?

    By Harro,
    • 0 replies
    • 719 views

  24. (SOLVED) LSI 9200 8e configuration

    By HK-Steve,
    • 5 replies
    • 649 views

  25. (SOLVED) LSI 9240-8i Flashed to 9211-8i IT Mode not Seeing Drives

    By Machine_Galaxy,
    • 13 replies
    • 4.2k views

  26. (SOLVED) Replace sata controller with a SAS controller?

    By Spydawg,
    • 9 replies
    • 2.1k views

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

    By cracksilver,
    • 6 replies
    • 1.4k views

  28. (SOLVED) SMART errors on two new 10TB WD101EMAZ drives shucked from WD Easystores

    By nametaken_thisonetoo,
    • 3 replies
    • 965 views

  29. (SOLVED) So.....does this mean I need to return this hard drive... PreClear Failure

    By Hobbes_Is_Real,
    • 4 replies
    • 976 views

  30. (SOLVED) Unable to write to flash drive

    By cracksilver,
    • 10 replies
    • 1.8k views

  31. (SOLVED) unRAID not seeing drives connected to HP SAS expander

    By NightOps,
    • 16 replies
    • 2.4k views

  32. (SOLVED) WD My Book (WD White)

    By gberg,
    • 5 replies
    • 2.1k views

  33. (Solved)LSI 9211-8i IT Mode Firmware Flash Problems

    By J0my,
    • 9 replies
    • 5.1k views

  34. [6.8.1] SED (self-encrypting drives) in the array

    By stereobastler,
    • 7 replies
    • 3.1k views

  35. [6.9.2] Extremely Slow Preclear Post-Read

    By DiagnostiX,
    • 2 replies
    • 936 views

  36. [Closed] Older LSI SATA controller

    By FreeMan,
    • 7 replies
    • 5.1k views

  37. [CONFIRMED] Seagate buys Samsung's disk drive business 1 2 3

    By neilt0,
    • 55 replies
    • 18.1k views

  38. [fixed] read/write speed drops after a few seconds

    By Sledgehamma,
    • 12 replies
    • 2.5k views

  39. [Guide] Changing block size on SAS and SCSI drives

    Topic was moved to forum General

  40. [Help] flashing LSI SAS 9311-8i to IT

    By prash3r,
    • 8 replies
    • 9.1k views

  41. [HELP] Putting disks back to normal again 1 2

    By ricreis394,
    • 32 replies
    • 1.2k views

  42. [LIST] Working USB 3.0 to SATA Adapters / Enclosures

    By mgutt,
    • 4 replies
    • 3.6k views

  43. [POLL] Hard Drive Brand of Choice

    By hernandito,
    • 11 replies
    • 2.3k views

  44. [Q] Any tips for moving from a Sata card to an LSI card? (2 disks on SATA card ATM)

    By Joshndroid,
    • 2 replies
    • 683 views

  45. [Resolved] Disks errors at the start of Unraid

    By SieyS,
    • 6 replies
    • 1.7k views

  46. [RESOLVED] Silicon Image 3114 controller troubles; trying to update BIOS 1 2

    By jeff.lebowski,
    • 26 replies
    • 20.5k views

  47. [SOLVED!!] - Cannot get SATA Add-on Cards to Work

    By hernandito,
    • 4 replies
    • 22.6k views

  48. [SOLVED] x470d4u + LSI 9211-8i - not seen by lspci

    By GaLaReN,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.8k views

  49. [SOLVED] - Raid card failure - Is all data lost?

    By Drabert,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.6k views

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

    By Talonius,
    • 5 replies
    • 2k views