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Storage Devices and Controllers

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

1977 topics in this forum

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

    By madburg,
    • 1626 replies
    • 830273 views

  2. SATA Controller Cards 1 2 3 4 26

    By Rajahal,
    • 641 replies
    • 199397 views

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

    By SSD,
    • 71 replies
    • 110506 views

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

    By Rajahal,
    • 283 replies
    • 101796 views

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

    By garycase,
    • 474 replies
    • 77367 views

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

    By Rajahal,
    • 97 replies
    • 68608 views

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

    By Rajahal,
    • 131 replies
    • 64901 views

  8. Preclear and Failed Drives 1 2 3

    By DoeBoye,
    • 67 replies
    • 46049 views

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

    By Rajahal,
    • 9 replies
    • 40883 views

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

    By SSD,
    • 111 replies
    • 30653 views

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

    By TheWombat,
    • 34 replies
    • 28124 views

  12. BackBlaze Reports 1 2 3

    By SSD,
    • 62 replies
    • 21389 views

  13. Failed Drives

    By SSD,
    • 14 replies
    • 6812 views

  14. Advanced Format Drives - WD10EARS WD15EARS WD20EARS 1 2 3 4 12

    By Tim P.,
    • 284 replies
    • 113940 views

  15. Do not run WDIDLE3 /D on the new Western Digital EZRX drives 1 2

    By tyrindor,
    • 26 replies
    • 108914 views

  16. Seagate’s first shingled hard drives now shipping: 8TB for just $260 1 2 3 4 27

    By neilt0,
    • 655 replies
    • 82881 views

  17. Potential Samsung F4 issues. 1 2 3 4 10

    By mcs,
    • 239 replies
    • 74179 views

  18. 2 TB Seagate Barracuda LP ST32000542AS Firmware Issues 1 2 3

    By BRiT,
    • 72 replies
    • 59348 views

  19. IBM ServerRaid Br10i FRU PCI-e 8x SAS HBA's 1 2 3 4 5

    By Talos,
    • 119 replies
    • 46106 views

  20. A good, but bad disk... badblocks alone can never be trusted. 1 2 3 4

    By Joe L.,
    • 77 replies
    • 37035 views

  21. Cheap Marvell-based (88SE9230) 4-port SATA3 PCIe 4x Controller 1 2

    By brandon,
    • 29 replies
    • 33158 views

  22. Clearing Confusion on AF Drives 1 2 3 4

    By limetech,
    • 95 replies
    • 30042 views

  23. Script to enable SATA Controllers without kernel modification 1 2 3 4

    By elkay14,
    • 75 replies
    • 28547 views

  24. 3 M1015's in ESXi not showing all drives in unRAID 1 2 3 4 6

    By RockDawg,
    • 139 replies
    • 28267 views

  25. [Solved] PERC H310 causing system not to boot

    By master.h,
    • 20 replies
    • 24301 views

  26. 4TB Seagate Faceoff - DX vs DM

    By JimmyJoe,
    • 20 replies
    • 23520 views

  27. Any experience with Seagate ST3000DM001 3TB? 1 2

    By HiSoC8Y,
    • 27 replies
    • 23020 views

  28. WD20EARX 1 2

    By furymaster,
    • 25 replies
    • 22548 views

  29. Multi_Zone_Error_Rate (again)

    By PeterB,
    • 18 replies
    • 22128 views

  30. [SOLVED] Flashing LSI 9220-8i Controller (IBM M1015) on a ASROCK 970 Extreme3

    By newbie_dude,
    • 10 replies
    • 21791 views

  31. HOW TO: Remove HPA with HDAT2 from USB Flash Drive

    By lishpy,
    • 1 reply
    • 20844 views

  32. Please explain how to flash a M1015 on a X9SCM-F 1 2

    By dikkiedirk,
    • 30 replies
    • 20511 views

  33. WD Red - new NAS optimized product line 1 2 3

    By gorbachev,
    • 63 replies
    • 20087 views

  34. AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 1 2 3

    By greybeard,
    • 53 replies
    • 18985 views

  35. Seagate ST4000DM000 4TB drive rated at 2400 power-on hours

    By vca,
    • 10 replies
    • 18960 views

  36. AOC-SAT2-MV8 with 3TB Drives? 1 2

    By tyrindor,
    • 33 replies
    • 18041 views

  37. SATA link down?

    By gorbachev,
    • 7 replies
    • 17852 views

  38. 4TB - WD Red or Seagate NAS? 1 2

    By JustinAiken,
    • 27 replies
    • 17554 views

  39. LSI SAS 3008 - supported?

    By jbartlett,
    • 14 replies
    • 17548 views

  40. High LCC count on WDEARS drives 1 2 3

    By Rajahal,
    • 54 replies
    • 17313 views

  41. Are the WD Red 3TB drives that much better than green? 1 2

    By mobias1313,
    • 39 replies
    • 16973 views

  42. Asmedia contoller card 1 2

    By aaronwt,
    • 30 replies
    • 16773 views

  43. totally lost with install of AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 1 2

    By adrian ballard,
    • 44 replies
    • 16746 views

  44. WD drives and autoparking

    By Manticore,
    • 19 replies
    • 16595 views

  45. Drive Identification - Shucked Seagate Expansion External (Not an Archive Drive?)

    By Kevlar21,
    • 12 replies
    • 16416 views

  46. IBM ServeRAID M1015/LSI SAS9220-8i PCI-Express PCIe8-port 6G SAS+SATA FRU46M0861 1 2

    By Harpz,
    • 27 replies
    • 15953 views

  47. Toshiba 7200rpm 3TB drives (DT01ACA300).

    By Talos,
    • 19 replies
    • 15688 views

  48. Using a HP Smart Array P400 in a non-HP system?

    By Exin,
    • 15 replies
    • 15572 views

  49. Thai floods halt WD hard disk fabs 1 2

    By neilt0,
    • 34 replies
    • 15455 views

  50. WD EADS/EARS vs. EARX 1 2

    By johnodon,
    • 27 replies
    • 15258 views