Storage Devices and Controllers

3432 topics in this forum

1. Full NVMe SSD only unRAID with ASUS Hyper M.2

   By retrogamer999, September 29, 2019
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   • trurl
   • September 30, 2019

2. Cache Pool Best Practices

   By SNDS, September 24, 2019
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   • SNDS
   • September 25, 2019

3. issues reading some disks on flashed LSI

   By sean13128, December 23, 2017
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   • DanW
   • September 23, 2019

4. Question regarding PCIe Adapters

   By ethronrion, September 16, 2019
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   • ethronrion
   • September 21, 2019

5. Filesystem

   By Nanobug, September 20, 2019
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   • Nanobug
   • September 20, 2019

6. SATA Card Suggestions

   By emuhack, September 7, 2019
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   • HojojojoWololo
   • September 19, 2019

7. UnRaid and inexpensive bíg-data disks?

   By Froberg, September 12, 2019
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   • landS
   • September 14, 2019

8. Any non-SMR external drives on the market?

   By xerces8, August 25, 2019
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   • JorgeB
   • September 11, 2019

9. Adaptec RAID 71605 setup in HBA mode? Bottleneck with 16 drives?

   By enmesh-parisian-latest, July 2, 2018
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   • DoeBoye
   • September 10, 2019

10. Dell Perc H310 causing stability issues

    By djglenn, September 9, 2019
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    • djglenn
    • September 9, 2019

11. 2 identical (4-drive) enclosures - 1 headache

    By jimmysq1, August 27, 2019
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    • Xaero
    • September 5, 2019

12. Passing trough fusionIO xs350

    By contay, August 30, 2019
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    • contay
    • August 30, 2019

13. [Solved] LSI 9300-16i auxiliary power?

    By Harro, August 29, 2019
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    • Harro
    • August 30, 2019

14. 12GB backplane witha 6GB controller?

    By DaMAN, July 19, 2019
    • 2 replies
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    • DaMAN
    • August 25, 2019

15. SSD running hot?

    By superloopy1, August 19, 2019
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    • Michael_P
    • August 21, 2019

16. Anyone Tried a SAS 3008 or Perc h330 Controller? 1 2 3

    By mbc0, January 18, 2019
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    • Sleyk Esrun
    • August 20, 2019

17. What is the best way to upgrade my entire array?

    By axipher, May 5, 2017
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    • J.Nerdy
    • August 17, 2019

18. Disk Unmountable - No File System after reboot

    By peezy45, August 15, 2019
    • 6 replies
    • 859 views
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    • peezy45
    • August 16, 2019

19. What Hard Drives are you using?

    By flambot, August 15, 2019
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    • flambot
    • August 15, 2019

20. Moving a bunch of hdd from different controllers

    By svennand, August 15, 2019
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    • 717 views
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    • svennand
    • August 15, 2019

21. Q: Best method of swapping out Cache array

    By Warrentheo, August 12, 2019
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    • Warrentheo
    • August 15, 2019

22. SSD, HDD, and cache

    By Nanobug, August 13, 2019
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    • Nanobug
    • August 14, 2019

23. Hardware vs Software RAID controller

    By Nanobug, August 12, 2019
    • 16 replies
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    • Nanobug
    • August 14, 2019

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

    By DaMAN, August 11, 2019
    • 1 reply
    • 604 views
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    • JorgeB
    • August 12, 2019

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

    By interwebtech, August 9, 2019
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    • interwebtech
    • August 9, 2019

26. Size of system drive

    By svennand, August 8, 2019
    • 4 replies
    • 957 views
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    • svennand
    • August 8, 2019

27. Looking for 2tb ssd for write cache

    By Abula, August 7, 2019
    • 1 reply
    • 941 views
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    • testdasi
    • August 8, 2019

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

    By gberg, August 8, 2019
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    • Hoopster
    • August 8, 2019

29. SSD as data array without parity disk

    By widdefmh, July 27, 2019
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    • widdefmh
    • July 30, 2019

30. Hot standby or swap smaller drive?

    By acurcione, July 28, 2019
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    • 666 views
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    • acurcione
    • July 29, 2019

31. Combine Sata Controllers?

    By CellDweller, July 29, 2019
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    • 711 views
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    • CellDweller
    • July 29, 2019

32. Which controller should I buy?

    By Dovaka, July 29, 2019
    • 1 reply
    • 660 views
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    • JorgeB
    • July 29, 2019

33. LSI 9201-16i + Intel RES2CV360 vs. Adaptec 71605H + an expander (Intel RES2CV360 or what?) vs. Adaptec 71605H + Intel RES2CV240

    By ed., July 29, 2019
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    • ed.
    • July 29, 2019

34. 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, 2019
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    • jbartlett
    • July 24, 2019

35. SAS Breakout Cable

    By Titus, July 23, 2019
    • 1 reply
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    • JorgeB
    • July 23, 2019

36. Primary cache drive failing swap question

    By thatnovaguy, July 18, 2019
    • 18 replies
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    • JorgeB
    • July 23, 2019

37. Adaptec 72405 24 Port Controller Series 7 Controller - Compatible? 1 2

    By khelm, May 31, 2013
    • 33 replies
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    • deaerator
    • July 20, 2019

38. WD CAVIAR RED WD40EFRX 4TB - Are the the REDs being Discussed?

    By flambot, September 21, 2013
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    • KC
    • July 18, 2019

39. Multiple LSI SAS Controllers

    By _0m0t3ur, June 20, 2019
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    • _0m0t3ur
    • July 11, 2019

40. Sonnet storage

    By caplam, July 11, 2019
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    • caplam
    • July 11, 2019

41. Drive fail?

    By _jonte, February 26, 2019
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    • Iceman24
    • July 10, 2019

42. SMR Host Managed Hard Drive Questions

    By blackbirdz, July 10, 2019
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    • blackbirdz
    • July 10, 2019

43. Marvell 88SE9230 not working

    By nico1995doom, June 9, 2016
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    • fluisterben
    • July 7, 2019

44. Upgrade CASE and HBA controllers

    By makarai, July 3, 2019
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    • makarai
    • July 3, 2019

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

    By JanRov, July 3, 2019
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    • JanRov
    • July 3, 2019

46. Motherboard RAID Controller

    By teitzelthomas, June 30, 2019
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    • teitzelthomas
    • July 1, 2019

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

    By ashman70, June 22, 2019
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    • wheelhouse2009
    • June 29, 2019

48. New drives - bad sectors

    By Vabch22, May 6, 2019
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    • testdasi
    • June 27, 2019

49. Looking to change out my Raid controller, looking for recommendation.

    By cfloener, November 25, 2015
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    • eras3d
    • June 27, 2019

50. LSI RAID card on Unraid

    By JakeTheSteak, June 26, 2019
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    • JakeTheSteak
    • June 26, 2019