Storage Devices and Controllers

3,436 topics in this forum

1. Recommended controllers for Unraid 1 2 3 4 22

   By JorgeB, January 29, 2021
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   • Nedry
   • May 1

2. Failed Drives 1 2 3

   By SSD, May 13, 2015
   • 59 replies
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   • Geck0
   • March 12

3. How to upgrade an LSI HBA firmware using Unraid 1 2 3 4

   By JorgeB, October 15, 2020
   • 84 replies
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   • vertigo12369
   • February 24

4. LSI Controller FW updates IR/IT modes 1 2 3 4 71

   By madburg, May 3, 2011
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   • Borizz.K
   • February 4

5. BackBlaze Reports 1 2 3 4

   By SSD, October 3, 2014
   • 79 replies
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   • Vetteman
   • December 3, 2023

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

   By SSD, March 2, 2015
   • 118 replies
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   • SimonF
   • May 20, 2021

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

   By garycase, April 25, 2015
   • 523 replies
   • 178.7k views
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   • Lolight
   • May 15, 2021

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

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

9. Migrating 16tb from Windows to Unraid (N100M asrock) replacing LSI 9260-8i

   By out_sid3r, May 1
   • 3 replies
   • 182 views
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   • trurl
   • Thursday at 08:41 PM

10. ASM1166 SATA FIS-based switching?

    By LeetDonkey, May 1
    • 0 replies
    • 90 views
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    • LeetDonkey
    • May 1

11. PCIe Gen 3.0 x1 SATA card

    By Fluxonium, April 18
    • 5 replies
    • 287 views
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    • Fluxonium
    • May 1
12. Plötzlich funktionieren einige Ports an der SATA Erweiterungskarte nicht mehr

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13. Slow Parity Sync - 2-8mb/s

    By Mizerka, April 28
    • 20 replies
    • 323 views
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    • Mizerka
    • April 30

14. 9600-24i for Unraid

    By LeetDonkey, March 31
    • 11 replies
    • 725 views
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    • Wody
    • April 27

15. Super slow parity rebuild with SMR drives in array

    By ruohki, April 25
    • 6 replies
    • 212 views
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    • Kilrah
    • April 26

16. (SOLVED) Changed the PCIE lane of my LSI-HBA and now cannot see any drives

    By Ryguy, April 25
    • 1 reply
    • 182 views
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    • Ryguy
    • April 26

17. Questions about setting up SSD cache

    By asbath, April 12
    • 6 replies
    • 374 views
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    • asbath
    • April 25

18. Drives Detected but show as 0GB

    By Timokew, April 17
    • 2 replies
    • 217 views
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    • Timokew
    • April 23

19. Moving to Proliant G10 from homegrown Proliant G6

    By larson, April 22
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    • 155 views
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    • larson
    • April 22

20. New Inexpensive 24 port SATA PCIE Card

    By bing281, October 27, 2022
    • 18 replies
    • 4.5k views
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    • electron286
    • April 21

21. 2x JMB585 6 Hard Drives

    By Robbaz, March 27, 2023
    • 3 replies
    • 985 views
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    • electron286
    • April 21

22. SAS upgrade checklist?

    By Harblar, April 16
    • 4 replies
    • 309 views
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    • Harblar
    • April 20

23. How do you add lots of hard drive sata ports to your setup?

    By John Danger, November 27, 2022
    • 11 replies
    • 4.1k views
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    • electron286
    • April 20

24. SSD v HDD - reliabity and speed

    By electron286, April 20
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    • 163 views
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    • electron286
    • April 20

25. Added 2 port PCIe x1 SATA Expander - SMART Uncorrect on the drive

    By sannitig, April 18
    • 8 replies
    • 239 views
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    • JonathanM
    • April 19

26. When to use HBA and when to use SATA expansion card?

    By Thedinotamer, April 6
    • 10 replies
    • 576 views
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    • Thedinotamer
    • April 17

27. Sata/SAS controllers tested (real world max throughput during parity check) 1 2 3 4 5

    By JorgeB, September 21, 2015
    • 118 replies
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    • JorgeB
    • April 17

28. So your new SAS (or SATA) drive won't start (spin up)?

    By doron, October 4, 2019
    • 20 replies
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    • doron
    • April 15

29. Getting helium warning on non-helium HGST drive

    By sonofdbn, April 14
    • 4 replies
    • 272 views
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    • JorgeB
    • April 15

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

    By timethrow, February 14, 2021
    • 13 replies
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    • Hurf
    • April 13

31. Scrutiny failed my Parity drive after parity rebuild

    By Lebowski89, April 11
    • 4 replies
    • 282 views
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    • Lebowski89
    • April 12

32. PCI-e Sata expansion card 1 2 3 4

    By elnevera, March 5, 2019
    • 76 replies
    • 67.4k views
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    • JorgeB
    • April 11

33. AsMedia or JMB585

    By Ayouby, March 22
    • 3 replies
    • 585 views
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    • electron286
    • April 9

34. does a 9207-8i work on pcie 3.0 x1

    By Eisi2005, November 1, 2022
    • 3 replies
    • 882 views
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    • only-university6482
    • April 8

35. Cache drive questions

    By segway, April 4
    • 5 replies
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    • segway
    • April 8

36. CAN I USE AN SSHD AS A PARITY DRIVE WITHOUT PROBLEMS?

    By Mario Coelho, April 8
    • 1 reply
    • 244 views
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    • JorgeB
    • April 8

37. Can I swap the two SSDs in my ZFS cache pool to each other's bay?

    By sven, April 7
    • 1 reply
    • 226 views
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    • JorgeB
    • April 8

38. Verdict on LCC and Seagate Exos

    By Lebowski89, April 6
    • 2 replies
    • 293 views
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    • LeetDonkey
    • April 8

39. changing HD array 2TB to 1Tb (newbie)

    By jorgeg73, April 5
    • 1 reply
    • 279 views
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    • JonathanM
    • April 5

40. Help with configuration for SSD Cache & additional SATA Ports

    By scarpall, April 2
    • 3 replies
    • 369 views
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    • JorgeB
    • April 3

41. unraid not seeing physical drives on new server

    By AceBoyden, October 10, 2022
    • 3 replies
    • 930 views
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    • HDB
    • April 3

42. Intel Optane 905P 960GB

    By Sadistic, March 31
    • 9 replies
    • 376 views
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    • Sadistic
    • March 31
43. backup for flash dont going : (

    Topic was moved to forum General Support

44. Do i need to replace these drives?

    By TransformedBG, March 31
    • 1 reply
    • 316 views
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    • ChatNoir
    • March 31

45. Is my brand new 6tb WD Red bad?

    By TheSnuke, March 29
    • 3 replies
    • 383 views
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    • ChatNoir
    • March 30

46. The Best USB Boot Drive That You Will not Buy?

    By OrdinaryButt, February 12, 2022
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    • bagican
    • March 28

47. Unable to detect SSD drive on unraid webui

    By LightSeeker, March 10
    • 6 replies
    • 474 views
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    • JorgeB
    • March 28

48. SMART 0xB5 (ID 181) Every Unraid Reboot Increases by 22 (filesystem) and 18 (parity)

    By rook, March 10
    • 6 replies
    • 622 views
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    • rook
    • March 25

49. Parity drive reports "disk has read errors"

    By [email protected], March 23
    • 1 reply
    • 428 views
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    • JorgeB
    • March 23

50. Logistics to move from XFS array to ZFS pool

    By Ademar, March 22
    • 0 replies
    • 410 views
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    • Ademar
    • March 22