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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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