Storage Devices and Controllers

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1. Recommended SATA card for 24+ Drives

   By larionlarion, June 23, 2017
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   • ashman70
   • January 4, 2018

2. WD20EARX to WDIdle3 or not?

   By Beer40oz, August 27, 2012
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   • hurricane51
   • March 7, 2013

3. Flash dell perc 710 to IT mode?

   By nightanole, October 14, 2016
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   • nightanole
   • January 14, 2017

4. "Ideal SATA/SAS Controllers for Linux MD RAID"

   By neilt0, February 13, 2011
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   • neilt0
   • February 13, 2011

5. 4TB shipping!

   By Auggie, December 21, 2011
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   • c3
   • January 20, 2012

6. WD Red 8TB Drives Now Available 1 2

   By JimPhreak, March 14, 2016
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   • danioj
   • March 31, 2016

7. External HDD are cheaper, shucking?

   By rikdegraaff, April 23, 2020
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   • John_M
   • May 2, 2020

8. Dell 6/i sas controller success

   By jmcgeejr, April 17, 2012
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   • Fireball3
   • November 21, 2014

9. RMA Experiences 1 2

   By SSD, February 19, 2011
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   • Superorb
   • May 17, 2011

10. Marshal 8TB Hard Drives? $180! 1 2

    By interwebtech, September 25, 2016
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    • SSD
    • July 18, 2017

11. Drive Performance - What drives/configurations to use?

    By Alcor, June 10, 2017
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    • SSD
    • June 14, 2017

12. F3 vs F4 vs WD20EARS

    By loadme, January 26, 2011
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    • Superorb
    • February 16, 2011

13. Does preclear remove HPA from disk?

    By adrianz, January 28, 2011
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    • sam9s
    • August 3, 2011

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

    By prash3r, January 7, 2020
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    • Peter80
    • February 21, 2021

15. Which HDD manufacturer has the best Warranty?

    By geekette, May 29, 2012
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    • chickensoup
    • June 3, 2012

16. Fast cache drive vs fast parity drive?

    By coldflame, October 15, 2010
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    • Rajahal
    • January 18, 2011

17. [SOLVED] How to format a 3TB drive not to be included in the protected array?

    By TornroT, May 18, 2012
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    • TornroT
    • May 21, 2012

18. H310 IT mode - Drives not detected 1 2

    By Ctofte, December 6, 2018
    • 31 replies
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    • Trylo
    • January 19, 2020

19. Water Panther drives?

    By heffe2001, July 19, 2019
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    • Chico
    • August 3, 2020

20. Western Digital Releases 5TB and 6TB Red and Green Drives 1 2

    By Jomp, July 21, 2014
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    • garycase
    • August 26, 2014

21. Raw Read Error Rate.

    By PeterB, August 21, 2015
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    • tr0910
    • June 7, 2016

22. Comparing the Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid drive, SSDs, and HDDs

    By Rajahal, December 2, 2010
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    • Rajahal
    • January 12, 2011

23. 3TB Seagate drive differences?

    By Julez, December 26, 2013
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    • garycase
    • December 27, 2013

24. unRaid not seeing JBOD drives 1 2

    By ToXIc, July 19, 2014
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    • ToXIc
    • January 7, 2015

25. Need help BIOS upgrading LSI 9207-8i Controller

    By Hammer, January 15, 2020
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    • Knights21
    • February 8, 2021

26. Very Very Slow Write Speed 1 2 3

    By ManishGupta8, December 13, 2018
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    • trurl
    • December 20, 2018

27. LSI 9205-8i or LSI 9207-8i for a PCIE 3.0x4 slot

    By davidst95, October 11, 2019
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    • RaidUnnewb
    • June 4, 2023

28. sil3132 vs sil3124

    By djdexter, January 17, 2011
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    • CHBMB
    • March 2, 2011

29. Asmedia 1062 vs JMB585?

    By kakashisensei, July 15, 2020
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    • JorgeB
    • July 26, 2020

30. Whats the best HBA (it mode) that its supported by unraid?

    By Abula, March 22, 2017
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    • Carpesimia
    • January 6, 2018

31. NVME cache drive recommendations

    By Stratto, November 19, 2022
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    • spamalam
    • November 24, 2022

32. IBM ServeRAID M1015 vs SuperMicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8

    By morreale, June 15, 2012
    • 13 replies
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    • spylex
    • July 29, 2012

33. Sata Power Cable to Hard Drive Question

    By spinbot, August 2, 2011
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    • spinbot
    • August 3, 2011

34. wdidle3 does not work on new BLUE drives :-(

    By craigr, January 24, 2017
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    • craigr
    • January 26, 2017

35. 5400 or 7200 rpm 6TB drives considering Price, Noise, Power Consumption

    By limefrog, October 28, 2015
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    • garycase
    • November 1, 2015

36. Seagate Skyhawk drive for unRaid?

    By superloopy1, April 2, 2018
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    • superloopy1
    • January 13, 2021

37. WB My Book 6TB - SMR?

    By xerces8, August 23, 2019
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    • Lolight
    • September 2, 2021

38. Is 6Tb Too Big (For Parity Checks / Re-builds??) 1 2

    By flambot, March 21, 2015
    • 34 replies
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    • garycase
    • April 12, 2016

39. Excessive Hi Fly Writes

    By ct1478, December 9, 2013
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    • ct1478
    • December 11, 2013

40. DELL PERC H310 Problems 1 2

    By clevoir, December 28, 2016
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    • clevoir
    • December 31, 2016

41. LSI MegaRAID SAS 9280-24i4e

    By moh050, August 28, 2013
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    • Ford Prefect
    • September 2, 2013

42. PCIe x4 into x16, but what about the transfer speeds?

    By Rich, June 12, 2011
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    • Rich
    • June 20, 2011

43. Wd 8tb (easy store shucked) Red drives not recognized

    By bilbo6209, December 25, 2017
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    • SBN
    • January 5, 2021

44. does my Raid card need flashing for Unraid? 03X3834 IBM LSI 6GB 16 PORT PCI-E SAS EXPANDER CARD 9240-8i 9261-8i 11407-1 1 2

    By comet424, December 20, 2019
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    • comet424
    • December 21, 2019

45. SUPERMICRO AOC-SASLP-MV8 Issue

    By onthecake, May 2, 2011
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    • onthecake
    • May 11, 2011

46. Hard drive size sweet spot may be 18TB, Sept. 2021 1 2

    By xrqp, September 5, 2021
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    • JorgeB
    • January 25

47. Dell H310 IT MODE Lastest Firmware?

    By CSIG1001, September 14, 2018
    • 15 replies
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    • CSIG1001
    • September 17, 2018

48. Just got a new controller - Supermicro AOC SAS2LP MV8

    By gborrillo, September 22, 2011
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    • Johnm
    • November 16, 2011

49. Storage options for unRAID on a laptop

    By Seeker14491, June 19, 2016
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    • John_M
    • June 23, 2016

50. Digitus DS-30104-1 working with unraid?

    By Zonediver, July 6, 2014
    • 15 replies
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    • FlabbaMann
    • March 13, 2015