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Independence of SATA channels and ports
I'm working on setting up a simple RAID and am wondering about how independent my SATA ports really are. There are 4 ports on the motherboard, but lspci shows only two controllers
00:0e.0 IDE ...
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SATA Card Blocks On-Board RAID Controller
I have a PCI-Express two-port SATA card (from SSU).
It is model SU-SATA3-T2.
I'm installing it in a Dell Optiplex 990. The Dell motherboard part number is 06D7TR.
The card seems to work, but with one ...
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LSI HBA Enable Partial or Slumber Low Power Mode
I have a SATA disc connected to a LSI 9207-8i HBA
which uses the LSI SAS2308 controller. I am trying to put this disc in slumber by enabling device initiated power management. Disk sends a PMREQ_P / ...
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What are following sata raid drivers for?
I've been installing raid 1 based server and the first time i did it. I didn't know which one to choose to I chose at random (I think ICH7R/DH one). Everything worked, but disk access times were ...
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Does a SATA III controller for PCI-e 1.0 (x16) exist?
I'm trying to hunt around for a solution to a disk issue I have with my home server. Basically, I started to use it to stream video (going from a virtual host, it now does alot more). I see alot of ...
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Migrating Windows installation to NVME RAID
I had Windows 11 installed on an NVMe drive and I have another spare (identical) NVMe drive. My plan was to create a Windows system image of my installation, create a new NVMe RAID array in my BIOS ...
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Windows freezes when accessing optical drive when SATA mode is set to RAID
I have a Asus X570-E motherboard with a couple drives connected in raid on the SATA bus. I've set the SATA mode from AHCI to RAID, and configured the raid successfully.
However, today when I ...
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How to connect additional drives to HBA controller?
I have a HBA 330 IT controller which has 2x4 12 Gbit/s SAS (or 6 Gbit/s SATA) ports, available through two SFF-8643 mini-SAS connectors. Though it has only 8 ports, it can aparently support up to 32 ...
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"ICRC, ABRT" errors with IRST (Intel Rapid Storage Technology, imsm): Could it be software?
I have a system with two IRST RAID1: sda+sdb (2TB), sdc+sdd (1TB) (in Linux-speech)
Each pair of disks was bought in one order, i.e. they are the same disk drives of the same age.
The 2TB RAID ...
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Intel Rapid Storage RAID10 volume fails after GPU installation
So, after I successfully installed a GPU in my server and started the server again, the RAID volume failed to initialize.
I have 4 HDD's (2TB each, same model) in RAID10 and this RAID has been ...
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NVMe + RAID: How to Optimize Lanes?
I have a Samsung 960 Pro, a RAID 1 with 2 Seagate (ST2000dx001) disks and a Blu-ray device (ASUS BW-16D1HT) on Asus H170Pro USB 3.1 with W10/64. I run the 960 with the Bios option “Not RST Controlled” ...
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Multi-channel SATA RAID card to RAID 4 Bay Enclosure
I have a Mediasonic ProBox HF2-SU3S2 4 Bay 3.5" Hard Drive Enclosure.
The box only has one eSATA port and one USB 3.0 port on the back. According to the manual of this storage box I need to get a ...
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Intel RST turned a disk off
I have an Asus ROG laptop and I got a BSOD while I was working and then after the restart, one of my partitions disappeared.
This used to show two disks but it only shows 1 disk and the cd drive. ...
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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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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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Cloning PERC H310 RAID 1 to non RAID SATA disk
I have a Windows 10 PC with the OS drive being 2 SAS drives on a Dell PERC H310 as a mirror.
I want to remove the RAID and install a single SATA SSD. I have some programs to which I have no ...
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Host system dead. How do I read data stored on a RAID 1 drive/pair?
I have looked for similar questions and I probably don't know the proper phrases to find an equivalent question if it exists here on SU. I have seen a couple questions from 6-plus years back that ...
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Desktop PC with RAID won't boot
I'm trying to fix my dads PC (Windows 10) being on holiday at my parents place. He has a RAID Volume installed, built of 2 SATA discs where at least one disk seems to be corrupt - it makes an ugly ...
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How does the Intel ICH*R storage controller detect and fix errors in a RAID1 array on a full scan?
In Intel's RST tool to manage ICH*R arrays, there is an option for RAID1 arrays to "scan and fix" errors, which starts a job to scan the entire array.
So detecting errors with a high degree ...
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Can't change SATA mode from RAID to AHCI in Windows 10
I am trying to install Ubuntu in dual boot with Windows 10, but after many failed attempts I realized that I have to change SATA mode to AHCI.
I have tried literally everything I have read online, ...
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Connecting multiple hard drives through one sata input
There is a surveillance system with one sata input, there are several hard drives that I would like to connect through this port with that
sata hub
After a careful reading I came to the conclusion ...
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Changed from AHCI to RAID and now Windows won't boot
I've got 2 SSDs, one for Windows and one for Linux Mint. I have another 4 HDDs I turned into a RAID 0 array via my BIOS. Mobo is ASUS TUF X570.
I had the 4 HDDs in a Microsoft storage pool but started ...
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Which SD Card spec satisfies Sata 2?
So I have this old MacBook from 2010 whose internal HDD can be swapped. Because the old HDD died, I bought a cheap 1TB SSD and threw it in there. Not even a brand I know or anything but I really just ...
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Dell XPS 15 (9550) dual SSD
I recently opened up my Dell XPS 15 9550 to blow out some of the dust, and was surprised by the presence of an empty SATA bay next to the smaller 56 Whr battery. I only opted for the 256GB M.2 drive ...
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How do I set up a raid configuration in a separate case from my computer?
I want to set up a RAID 5 configuration with a bunch of drives but my current case has no hot swap bays and doesn't have enough bays or sata ports to connect them all in the same case. I want to put ...
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How to Switch from RAID to IDE/SATA without BIOS acces
At the company we have a Laptop HP Elitebook 8770w which has some problems with booting. We had an SSD to boot from and a 2nd HDD. The Windows 7 OS is installed on the SSD. Now we have removed the SSD ...
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Which of these drivers do I need? (RAID controller for Asus P5BW-LA)
I've been looking for drivers for my Asus P5BW-LA motherboard (running Windows XP Pro SP3) that will allow me to use RAID and/or AHCI SATA mode instead of IDE. I found two different candidates:
https:...
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Home HDD Storage - Internal (SATA) vs. External (Gigabit)
I've been considering setting up a fileserver for my home storage.
Would an external HDD setup at Gigabit speeds be slower then just staying with internally installed, SATA III-speed drives in my ...
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Windows 10 Couldn't boot, replaced HDD, only recognized in bios using SATA0 or SATA1?
Suffered some sort of failure where my computer wouldn't boot (Windows 10). After trying a few recovery methods unsuccessfully, I figured it was a bad drive, bought a replacement (WD Blue 1TB), but ...
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How to setup Raid0 while having a ssd has main boot
i tried setuping this up.
SSD with windows to boot on
2 x 2T Hard Drive
When i switched my sata configuration in my bios to Raid to configure the other disks, my main boot ssd stoped working. It ...
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How exactly do you hook up 16 drives to this RAID card?
http://www.lsi.com/products/raid-controllers/pages/megaraid-sas-9240-8i.aspx#tab/tab1
I'm utterly confused only because I'm not versed as well in enterprise storage capability and solutions. The ...
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Why can't Windows Server 2008 R2 (during clean install) find ANY device drivers?
I am trying to get a fresh install of Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard (64-bit) onto a (somewhat dated) Dell PowerEdge 1800. I'm am using the bundled Adaptec CERC SATA1.5/6ch RAID controller, and have ...
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No hard drive detected during Debian installation
I'm having problem in installing debian 7.5.0 on Supermicro server running on raid 1 whereby the hard drive is not detected. This server is running 2x 600GB hdd and i'm using DVD images of debian-7.5....
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How can I get my SATA DVDs working again?
My hard drive crashed (WinXPpro), so I took a C drive from a broken PC. The new C drive is Win7pro. Motherboard is MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum, with 4 hard drives installed on SATA 1-4 (nForce4 Ultra); ...
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USB 3.0 to SAS; seems slow to me. Is it?
I've been transferring about 5TB from a USB 3.0 enclosure with built in hardware RAID running 4x SATA III drives. The destination is an external SAS enclosure (7x SATA II) with 2x SAS cables connected ...
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How to install ESXi 4.1 with an Intel SRCS28X?
I have a Dell 2850 rack server and just purchased an Intel SRCS28X 8 port SATA card for it. Previously I ran VMware's ESXi server with no issues, but it wont recognize the new card. I read that the ...
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Is it possible to configure a Sata RAID Controller without RAID
I have a 6 port SATA RAID card (taken out of an HP ML150 G2 server). What i want to do is connect the Sata Hard Drives that i have to this card without formatting or loosing any data on the hard drive....
