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Do SSDs have to have AHCI to maximize performance?
After my last post concerning my motherboard's RAID, I'm considering purchasing an additional dedicated RAID controller, but I have a few concerns about what to buy, because I'm facing yet another ...
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How to determine cause for failing RAID arrays
I have to investigate a recent increase in failing RAID-1 (Mirror) arrays we're encountering in our installed PC park (10K+ PC's).
The problem is twofold: one part of being a pilot phase we started ...
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SATA-II SSD Raid 0 slow on Windows-7
I have 2 SSDs and made a RAID 0 with the on-board controller of my mainboard.
But i only get 130 megabyte/second average read/write speed which seems to be pretty slow for me even for SATA 2 which ...
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Progressive upgrade of a RAID array
Our group has a 16 disk backup RAID6 array. Currently, those 16 disks have the following specs;
500 GB
16 and 64MB cache
3 Gb/s SATA
I would like to begin upgrading these disks if possible, ...
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How to add extra sata drives to desktop server
I have an ubuntu 12.04 machine with a raid using mdadm. The motherboard has 8 sata ports which are all being used, and I would like to add more hard drives to it.
What's the easiest/best way to add a ...
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Data transfer from NAS to D: completely soaks my C: drive -- why?
I have a NAS where I have temporarily stored about 2.2TB of data while I rebuilt my “heavy lifter” workstation. My heavy lifter has no SATA on-board, but I use an LSI 9550sx-12 PCI-X RAID card for my ...
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Asus m5A97 RAID/AHCI configuration
I'm trying to RAID two SSD's in raid 0 to install games on, but I want to have my OS running off of my HDD (which it is currently installed on). I have the HDD plugged into SATA 5, and the SSD's ...
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Software RAID 1 resync's on SATA cable switch?
I made a mistake when I opened up my desktop removed a 2 disk RAID 1 and reconnected them, but with the SATA cables switched, such that sda became sdb and viceversa.
On boot, the RAID array started ...
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Reset Disks to Non-RAID in Intel Matrix Storage Manager
I have a Gigabyte S-Series motherboard based PC that was configured with two SATA drives. The drives were NOT raided, but the RAID controller in BIOS was enabled - just no raid volumes created. ...
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Intel RAID controller failing to diagnose faulty disk
On my system (running Windows 7 x64) I have an Asus Z87 Deluxe motherboard, with a built-in Intel RAID controller; my config includes a Kingston 240GB SSD disk for the OS and two Western Digital 4TB ...
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Two SATA 2TB drives in RAID-1 configuration; only one 6.0gb/s port open
Here's the scenario:
I am building a computer that will act as a network storage device for local networked users, and a source code repository and backup device for remote users. The machine will ...
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Do 7.2k SATA drives and a hardware raid controller always end with trouble?
I'm reading the FreeNAS userguide and came across the statement:
Note that hardware RAID configured as JBOD may still detach disks that
do not respond in time; and as such may require TLER/CCTL/...
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Adding RAID to my existing PC
I am currently running a Dell Precision T5400 (Intel Xeon E5420 @ 2.5GHz / 4GB RAM).
I am looking to add disk mirroring. I presume I will require a RAID card and two new fast SATA hard drives.
I ...
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“failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED” with HDD plugged to ASM1062 (PCI-E SATA expansion card)
Setup
I refurbished an ASRock QC5000M motherboard for a home server, by installing Debian 12 on it with the intent to set up a RAID 1 on 2 hard drives.
This motherboard only has 2 SATA ports, so I ...
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Which connector does SAS use?
I have a Lenovo D30 workstation I'm using as a NAS. I recently got a few 3TB SAS drives and I'm trying to figure out how to install them. I'm pretty sure the computer supports SAS drives, but I can ...
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