Storage Devices and Controllers

1977 topics in this forum

1. Failed Drives

   By SSD, May 13, 2015
   • 14 replies
   • 6812 views
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   • Talonius
   • March 15

2. Seagate 8TB Shingled Drives in UnRAID 1 2 3 4 19

   By garycase, April 25, 2015
   • 474 replies
   • 77366 views
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   • wheel
   • January 24

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

   By SSD, March 2, 2015
   • 111 replies
   • 30652 views
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   • ProphetSe7en
   • May 8

4. BackBlaze Reports 1 2 3

   By SSD, October 3, 2014
   • 62 replies
   • 21389 views
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   • Tybio
   • January 23

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

   By SSD, July 7, 2014
   • 71 replies
   • 110506 views
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   • garycase
   • December 24, 2018

6. [SOLVED] Disabling RAID from AOC-SASLP-MV8 firmware .21 1 2

   By TheWombat, April 21, 2013
   • 34 replies
   • 28123 views
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   • Fuggin
   • June 7, 2017

7. Which 4 TB drive should I buy? 1 2 3 4 6

   By Rajahal, March 29, 2012
   • 131 replies
   • 64898 views
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   • Switchblade
   • January 30, 2018

8. LSI Controller FW updates IR/IT modes 1 2 3 4 66

   By madburg, May 3, 2011
   • 1626 replies
   • 830267 views
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   • Jonny
   • August 1

9. Preclear and Failed Drives 1 2 3

   By DoeBoye, April 27, 2011
   • 67 replies
   • 46048 views
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   • jtcweb
   • November 6, 2014

10. SATA Controller Cards 1 2 3 4 26

    By Rajahal, April 16, 2011
    • 641 replies
    • 199395 views
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    • johnnie.black
    • July 30

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

    By Rajahal, February 9, 2011
    • 9 replies
    • 40881 views
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    • BRiT
    • February 23, 2011

12. Which 3 TB drive should I buy? 1 2 3 4

    By Rajahal, January 21, 2011
    • 97 replies
    • 68608 views
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    • karateo
    • December 24, 2016

13. Which 2 TB drive should I buy? 1 2 3 4 12

    By Rajahal, January 4, 2011
    • 283 replies
    • 101795 views
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    • BobPhoenix
    • July 14, 2013

14. Disk Unmountable - No File System after reboot

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

15. Moving a bunch of hdd from different controllers

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

16. What Hard Drives are you using?

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

17. SSD, HDD, and cache

    By Nanobug, August 13
    • 15 replies
    • 115 views
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    • Nanobug
    • Wednesday at 01:12 PM

18. Q: Best method of swapping out Cache array

    By Warrentheo, August 12
    • 3 replies
    • 78 views
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    • Warrentheo
    • Thursday at 02:45 AM

19. Hardware vs Software RAID controller

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

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

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

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

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

22. Size of system drive

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

23. WD My Book (WD White)

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

24. Looking for 2tb ssd for write cache

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

25. Which controller should I buy?

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

26. Combine Sata Controllers?

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

27. 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
    • 127 views
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    • ed.
    • July 29

28. Hot standby or swap smaller drive?

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

29. SSD as data array without parity disk

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

30. 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

31. SAS Breakout Cable

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

32. Water Panther drives?

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

33. 12GB backplane witha 6GB controller?

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

34. Primary cache drive failing swap question

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

35. Sonnet storage

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

36. SMR Host Managed Hard Drive Questions

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

37. Upgrade CASE and HBA controllers

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

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

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

39. Motherboard RAID Controller

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

40. Dell Poweredge R720 - Not detecting Drives

    By doblez, June 30
    • 0 replies
    • 89 views
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    • doblez
    • June 30

41. LSI RAID card on Unraid

    By JakeTheSteak, June 26
    • 0 replies
    • 125 views
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    • JakeTheSteak
    • June 26

42. SSD Cache - Different size drives

    By l3gion, June 22
    • 2 replies
    • 193 views
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    • l3gion
    • June 23

43. Looking for a good 16 port HBA or RAID controller

    By ashman70, June 22
    • 4 replies
    • 269 views
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    • wheelhouse2009
    • June 29

44. Preclear stalled

    By nraygun, June 20
    • 0 replies
    • 95 views
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    • nraygun
    • June 20

45. TOSHIBA HDWU130 Spin-Down issue

    By shire, June 20
    • 0 replies
    • 92 views
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    • shire
    • June 20

46. Multiple LSI SAS Controllers

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

47. [SOLVED] Which drive for PVR/DVR?

    By stor44, June 19
    • 2 replies
    • 155 views
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    • stor44
    • June 21

48. Do we really need badblocks over smartctl?

    By Hammerx, June 18
    • 3 replies
    • 138 views
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    • trurl
    • June 18

49. PCIE 3.0 SATA III Controller vs Onboard SCU SATA 2.0

    By CowboyRedBeard, June 17
    • 5 replies
    • 139 views
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    • testdasi
    • June 17

50. Expanding my array

    By caplam, June 13
    • 2 replies
    • 137 views
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    • caplam
    • June 13