Storage Devices and Controllers

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1. Recommended controllers for Unraid, last updated 02/2021

   By JorgeB, January 29
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   • JorgeB
   • January 29

2. How to upgrade an LSI HBA firmware using Unraid

   By JorgeB, October 15, 2020
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   • Hoopster
   • January 30

3. Failed Drives

   By SSD, May 13, 2015
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   • toms_jeep
   • November 6, 2020

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

   By garycase, April 25, 2015
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   • Hoopster
   • December 15, 2020

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

   By SSD, March 2, 2015
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   • flyize
   • December 4, 2020

6. BackBlaze Reports 1 2 3

   By SSD, October 3, 2014
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   • Tybio
   • January 23, 2019

7. LSI Controller FW updates IR/IT modes 1 2 3 4 68

   By madburg, May 3, 2011
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   • Jonaskp
   • Saturday at 09:34 AM

8. SATA Controller Cards 1 2 3 4 28

   By Rajahal, April 16, 2011
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   • ChatNoir
   • 7 hours ago

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

   By Rajahal, February 9, 2011
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   • S80_UK
   • February 10, 2020

10. Upgrade from onboard SATA to SAS

    By Goldie01, 19 hours ago
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    • 52 views
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    • ChatNoir
    • 19 hours ago

11. Need more ports! Card suggestions?

    By david97, Sunday at 09:45 PM
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    • ChatNoir
    • Monday at 07:46 AM

12. Seagate MACH.2 in Unraid.

    By frodr, Friday at 09:42 PM
    • 1 reply
    • 127 views
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    • JorgeB
    • Saturday at 08:11 AM

13. LSI 9211-8i not working

    By workermaster, February 21
    • 6 replies
    • 196 views
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    • Gragorg
    • Thursday at 08:05 PM

14. Need SATA Controller Advice - Marvell Controller Causing Issues

    By SuperNotSupper, February 17
    • 2 replies
    • 164 views
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    • SuperNotSupper
    • February 17

15. Performance!

    By darkcyde, February 16
    • 4 replies
    • 166 views
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    • frodr
    • Friday at 09:51 PM

16. LSI 9207 8i Fake or Not

    By brettm357, February 15
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    • 114 views
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    • whipdancer
    • February 15

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

    By timethrow, February 14
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    • timethrow
    • February 14

18. LSI 9220-i8 card not detected with sas2flash.efi

    By BoKKeR, February 14
    • 1 reply
    • 116 views
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    • ChatNoir
    • February 14

19. Shall I RMA My Drive?

    By Jimmy2k20, February 14
    • 2 replies
    • 137 views
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    • Jimmy2k20
    • February 14

20. Toshiba n300 8tb drives

    By coblck, February 13
    • 6 replies
    • 202 views
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    • SME Storage
    • Friday at 01:31 PM

21. Can someone help me figure out what controller I should use to replace my current one?

    By thejellydude, February 12
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    • 134 views
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    • JorgeB
    • February 13

22. Intel SAS expander help!

    By CodyH, February 12
    • 1 reply
    • 118 views
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    • JorgeB
    • February 12

23. Preclear: post-read verification failed

    By adrifromhh, February 10
    • 2 replies
    • 149 views
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    • adrifromhh
    • February 10

24. Best practices for removing SSD's from Array

    By antwick, February 10
    • 1 reply
    • 147 views
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    • trurl
    • February 10

25. Not Detecting Drives

    By New2Unraid, February 10
    • 3 replies
    • 190 views
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    • New2Unraid
    • February 10

26. Adding external drive enclosure to my array 6.8.3

    By Cark, February 9
    • 1 reply
    • 172 views
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    • JorgeB
    • February 9

27. Who to buy LSI 9305-24i

    By Abula, February 8
    • 1 reply
    • 171 views
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    • spasszeit
    • February 21

28. an old SSD for Plex Metadata storage

    By yanksno1, February 7
    • 2 replies
    • 191 views
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    • ChatNoir
    • February 8

29. SAS drives with OEM firmware

    By DocScot, February 7
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    • 134 views
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    • DocScot
    • February 7

30. torrent download disk wear - does ssd cache reduce wear problems overall?

    By xrqp, February 7
    • 1 reply
    • 143 views
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    • xrqp
    • February 7

31. Preclear: 1 HDD takes 2h longer. Damaged?

    By froland80, February 6
    • 2 replies
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    • froland80
    • February 7

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

    By nametaken_thisonetoo, February 5
    • 3 replies
    • 185 views
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    • JorgeB
    • February 5

33. Drives on new SATA card not recognised

    By Omid, February 5
    • 16 replies
    • 303 views
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    • Omid
    • February 6

34. MSA60 With Dell H200E

    By Blair2499, February 4
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    • Blair2499
    • February 4

35. 2 drives drives disabled

    By SavellM, February 4
    • 13 replies
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    • SavellM
    • February 9
36. Best Docker on CA for cbz. files?

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37. support for this controller please, SI-MPE40125

    By unGUNDAM, February 4
    • 1 reply
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    • Squid
    • February 4

38. Netapp DS2246 and NetApp 111-00341+F2 4-Port HBA

    By purplechris, February 3
    • 2 replies
    • 196 views
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    • JorgeB
    • February 11

39. Seagate ironwolf 510 nvme ssd for cache

    By coblck, February 3
    • 0 replies
    • 125 views
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    • coblck
    • February 3

40. RAID Accidents and Solutions

    By g0li4th, January 31
    • 0 replies
    • 136 views
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    • g0li4th
    • January 31

41. SES2 support

    By cyruspy, January 31
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    • 115 views
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    • cyruspy
    • January 31

42. kunfuezion - drives not being detected

    By kunfuezion, January 31
    • 8 replies
    • 223 views
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    • doron
    • February 9

43. Upgrade Parity or Add Disks?

    By pnbrooks, January 31
    • 4 replies
    • 188 views
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    • pnbrooks
    • January 31

44. Disk read errors - bad HBA, bad drive cage, bad drives?

    By DayspringGaming, January 29
    • 4 replies
    • 154 views
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    • DayspringGaming
    • January 29

45. SATA Controller Cards supported

    By Giuffro, January 29
    • 3 replies
    • 189 views
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    • JorgeB
    • January 29

46. Help with SATA card

    By Ira, January 28
    • 21 replies
    • 286 views
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    • Ira
    • January 29

47. HBA drives not recognized after update to 6.9.0 rc2

    By Karoolus, January 28
    • 8 replies
    • 248 views
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    • Karoolus
    • February 2

48. Sanity check on a PCIE to 5-Port SATA3.0 Expansion Card

    By nametaken_thisonetoo, January 26
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    • 267 views
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    • mgutt
    • February 12

49. UDMA CRC error on drive

    By planetwilson, January 26
    • 2 replies
    • 119 views
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    • planetwilson
    • January 26

50. Preclearing Disks - Slow Performance

    By @zen, January 26
    • 3 replies
    • 181 views
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    • JorgeB
    • January 26