Paravane Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 @SundarNET Idk if you'll see this but I just ordered a LOT of hard drives off eBay. 10 new HP server SAS 2TB drives. The drives are formatted into 520 block size because HP hates everyone but themselves. I couldn't get them to read but after a LOT of googling I found this users thread and his instructions helped a crap load. I have now added an extra 20TB of space to my shares. Thanks bud! Quote Link to comment
SundarNET Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 no worries matey it took me a while to find the info and thought it would be best in a nice descriptive thread the download link changes a bit so is the only thing you needed to update Quote Link to comment
SundarNET Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 (edited) just finished adding a Dell MD1200 storage array to my server using a H200 HBA SAS card !!! I can now add 12 more SAS or SATA drives and it takes full size HDD's as well so bring on the cheap high capacity SAS drives guys!! Edited April 28, 2020 by SundarNET spelling Quote Link to comment
Paravane Posted April 28, 2020 Author Share Posted April 28, 2020 1 hour ago, SundarNET said: just finished adding a Dell MD1200 storage array to my server using a H200 HBA SAS card !!! I can now add 12 more SAS or SATA drives and it takes full size HDD's as well so bring on the cheap high capacity SAS drives guys!! Look at eBay. I found 10 2tb SAS for $75 all brand new still sealed. Company was selling them because they were out of warranty. They apparently order in bulk and keep them on site for hot swap replacements. But once they hit end of warranty they basically trash em. Quote Link to comment
SundarNET Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 Im always on ebay!just looking to upgrade all my controllers to 12Gbps SAS as Im finding a serious bottleneck with 23 HDD's it takes about a full 24 hrs for a parity check on my array, about 1TB per hour and for all the people out there that might say things about the network speed wont handle this . Ive just ordered all the hardware for 10G fiber network 3 dual port ethernet sfp+ cards with tranceivers an 8 port mikrotik sfp+ switch 4 extra 10G tranceivers and a bunch of OM3 LC/LC fiber optic cables Quote Link to comment
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