Storage Devices and Controllers

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

3432 topics in this forum

  1. Sata Card Recommendations

    By batt01,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.1k views

  2. Drive types by purpose

    By mrmarkfr,
    • 6 replies
    • 2.7k views

  3. SOLVED: Recommendations for 16port half-length SATA Controller

    By Porterhouse,
    • 3 replies
    • 5.1k views

  4. Dell TD977 4e/DC

    By Prof.Nova,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.1k views

  5. Can someone explain the new 8TB Seagate drives?

    By tyrindor,
    • 2 replies
    • 2.2k views

  6. PROBLEM with LTO6 tapedrive in a LSI 9207-8i HBA and using LTFS on a Win7

    By fe_,
    • 9 replies
    • 2.6k views

  7. Ars: Hard disk reliability examined once more: HGST rules, Seagate is alarming

    By jumperalex,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views

  8. Hard Disk Prices on the Rise?

    By SSD,
    • 5 replies
    • 1.8k views

  9. M1015 Detection and Flashing

    By 01111000,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.2k views

  10. The need... for speed...Samsung Unveils First PCIe 3.0 x4-based M.2 SSD

    By bubbaQ,
    • 1 reply
    • 1k views

  11. [Solved] Getting a newer Areca JBOD Card to work with unRaid

    By ToXIc,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.5k views

  12. 6TB club

    By nightanole,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.7k views

  13. AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 will not boot, hangs on POST

    By CasanovaFly,
    • 21 replies
    • 4.5k views

  14. Multiple AOC SAS2LP-MV8 Cards

    By brandon,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.2k views

  15. Criteria for disk replacement.

    By ratmice,
    • 8 replies
    • 1.8k views

  16. Drive Advise - Hitachi HGST 4TB's (5400 RPM vs 7200 RPM)

    By chooch,
    • 3 replies
    • 2.9k views

  17. Identical HDDs, significant differences in Preclear times

    By Shunz,
    • 20 replies
    • 4.6k views

  18. Drive Advice

    By TODDLT,
    • 6 replies
    • 2.4k views

  19. Harddrive reads/writes?

    By dluusional,
    • 2 replies
    • 949 views

  20. Review & Testing of WD 6 TB RED - WD60EFRX

    By HiSoC8Y,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.1k views

  21. Hard drives with data already on them?

    By Brker19,
    • 7 replies
    • 3.3k views

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

    By neilt0,
    • 655 replies
    • 127.5k views

  23. Using Addonics AD4SA6GPX2 ( 6G 4-port SATA PCIe 2X controller) with unRAID

    By pkn,
    • 5 replies
    • 5.3k views

  24. Samsung Spinpoint M8 1TB

    By TUMS,
    • 2 replies
    • 935 views

  25. 2TB Parity Drive - Does it make sense to add something bigger?

    By JP,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.4k views

  26. New Build Help

    By G Speed,
    • 5 replies
    • 1.5k views

  27. high upper temp

    By TODDLT,
    • 5 replies
    • 2.1k views

  28. End-to-End Error?

    By anime513,
    • 1 reply
    • 1.1k views

  29. What is the best card? getting lost with all these topics

    By HiSoC8Y,
    • 18 replies
    • 13.5k views

  30. Replacing Dell PERC h200 with H710, what is the procedure?

    By HiSoC8Y,
    • 3 replies
    • 2k views

  31. Dell PERC H710

    By HiSoC8Y,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.7k views

  32. which one for Parity hdd?

    By thuy-nam,
    • 6 replies
    • 2.4k views

  33. LSI MegaRAID SAS MR 8888

    By tritron,
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views

  34. 4 port sata controller that can handle S3?

    By aspik,
    • 0 replies
    • 1.1k views

  35. Looking for new HDs and a raid controller

    By leetwolf,
    • 0 replies
    • 805 views

  36. 100TB drives by 2025

    By bubbaQ,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.5k views

  37. Opinions Wanted on a 3TB Hard Drive

    By rick.p,
    • 2 replies
    • 1k views

  38. Need a new drive

    By sgibbers17,
    • 10 replies
    • 1.8k views

  39. cheap controller

    By tritron,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.2k views

  40. M1015 & P20

    By digitalfixer,
    • 6 replies
    • 2.1k views

  41. help with SSD cache pool

    By ljm42,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.7k views

  42. SATA card for PCIe 2.0 x1 slot with 8 ports (or at least 4) 1 2

    By Bizarro,
    • 27 replies
    • 18.2k views

  43. Connecting a SSD cache drive to my Norco 4224 (Icy Dock EZConvert or ?)

    By mikeybunting,
    • 4 replies
    • 1.6k views

  44. 2-4 Port card that works with VT-d enabled

    By Manticore,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.1k views

  45. Replace a drive.

    By Esse,
    • 2 replies
    • 1k views

  46. SYBA SD-PEX40049 2-port PCI-E 2.0 x1 SATA III card

    By cassiusdrow,
    • 4 replies
    • 2k views

  47. WD Drives

    By demonmaestro,
    • 3 replies
    • 1.6k views

  48. new HGST drive bad?

    By optiman,
    • 8 replies
    • 3.6k views

  49. SuperMicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 Hard Drive Size

    By brettm357,
    • 2 replies
    • 1.4k views

  50. Using SMART to predict hard drive failure

    By Frank1940,
    • 9 replies
    • 2.9k views