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How to connect a SATA III port to a SAS hard drive?
On my motherboard, the ASUS Z9PA-D8, it says that it has a row of 8 SAS ports for connecting to SAS hard drives.
I'm talking about the line of blue things running horizontally in the bottom right of ...
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Does changing the SATA setting in BIOS render your Windows installation unbootable?
I accidentally changed the SATA setting from RAID to ACHI (by reseting to the factory settings) and don't receive any signal to the monitor, as a result can't boot (or potentially see) to BIOS. I'm ...
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SSD (SATA) Disk along side RAID with 3 Disks
I have the P6T7 WS motherboard (https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P6T7_WS_SuperComputer/) and wanted to install 4x 4TB drives as a RAID 10 on the ICH10R Serial ATA connectors (6 times) ,
I have also ...
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How to tell RAID setup
One of my colleague's computer broke and they sent me 5 disks.
One has the OS and is making the click of death and the others might have been in a RAID configuration.
I don't know the RAID ...
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Result of raid 0 with these two HDD
I'm new to raid arrays, and I'm trying to figure out what I would gain by combining this hdd:
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=9d373f15020b0210VgnVCM1000001a48090aRCRD
which is a ...
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What do I need to know to find a good second drive?
I am getting a second hard drive for my hp pavilion a1630n. The hard drive that came with it is: 250 GB SATA, 7200 rpm (WD WD Caviar SE, 8mb cache). What do I need to know to find a good second drive ...
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Newly installed hard drive not visible
Motherboard was too old to install a sata 2 harddrive So i bought a raid controller ("http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816132008")
In windows 7 , the device manager detects ...
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Upgrading Win 8 to Win 10 not possible
The screenshot explains everything:
A couple of days ago received a machine with Ryzen 1700 cpu and ASUS X370-Pro motherboard with enabled RAID1 on first 2 SATA ports (in fact on all ports, ask ASUS ...
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How to rescan a SATA hard disk devices in a RAID array remotely from the main server it is connected to?
I have the RAID 5 system in 4bay-hdd-case with a SATA cable connected to main server.
Cach drive is registered like these
/dev/sdj3
/dev/sdk3
/dev/sdl3
/dev/sdm
However suddenly, /dev/sdj3 seems to ...
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How does loss of single drive influence 4k random performance of RAID 1 array?
Here is one explanation of the benefits of RAID 1:
"As different disks can seek on different data, it [RAID 1] has up to 2x the random read IOPS but the same 1x (or slightly lower, due to ...
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What to do to be able to switch from SATA mode AHIC -> RAID RST in Linux and Windows?
I have the following MOBO https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/RAMPAGE_IV_EXTREME/ and the hardware configuration:
Main SSD disk #1 with Ubuntu 18.04 x64 on 6G SATA connector.
Main SSD disk #2 with ...
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m.2 SATA to PCIe adapter [closed]
I bought two m.2 SATA SSD SanDisk SSD x400 128Gb.
But my motherboard Asus Maximus IX Hero has only one m.2 SATA port m.2.1. Second m.2 port m.2.2 accept only PCIe devices.
Now I want to buy m.2 ...
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Unable to configure drives on Intel S500VSA server board.
I am installing two 2TB SATA drives on an Intel S500VSA server board. I want to configure a RAID 1 array. When I log into the RAID configuration panel with Ctrl-E I find that the two drives are ...
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How to copy RAID 0 array with failing drive to single drive
I'm using the Intel SATA RAID Controller built into my motherboard.
I'm using it in RAID 0 mode with two 1TB Samsung HD103SJ drives.
One of the Samsung drives is reporting an error.
On the same ...
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Disconnect the SAS on T7500
I have a Dell Precision T7500.
In BIOS I have turned off the SAS controller, which means that I can't use two HD's and the DVD drive, which I am fine with.
I have an Adata SU800 SSD in it, which I ...
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