Questions tagged [sas]
Serial Attached SCSI, or SAS, is a storage attachment interface most often used on high-end equipment such as servers, and which is capable of transferring data at up to 12 Gbit/second on the bus.
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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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Connecting a sata ssd drive to my sas hotswap bay
I purchased the SilverStone Technology RM21-304 2U Micro-ATX Rackmount Server Chassis with Four 3.5" hot-swap Bays, SST-RM21-304. The description says "Supports four 2.5"/3.5" Sas/...
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How to properly safely remove (hot-swap) HDD connected to LSI HBA card under Windows Server 2019
I have a LSI HBA 9400-16e connected to a 24-bay enclosure with HDDs in it and running Windows Server 2019 (only JBOD, no RAID). The enclosure backplane supports hot-swap.
I am doing manual cold ...
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SAS HDD Clicking Noise in IDLE - Seeking Advice on PERC H710 Setup (Storage Troubleshooting)
I recently acquired 5 used SAS HDDs with approximately 35 days of service each. It was a great deal compared to purchasing new HDDs, but there was a slight mix-up as I initially thought they were SATA....
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NL-SAS disk in desktop PCIe SAS controller. Does it work?
I have recently got the idea of deploying a home NAS, since I got a used SAS disk online.
But now I realised it's a nearline SAS disk, and I preemptively bought a SAS controller for my desktop ...
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HPE Proliant DL360E Gen8 failing to boot from correct HBA device (H220 and H241)
So, here's an overview of the problem to hand (Images found at bottom).
A Gen 8 Proliant DL380E with a H220 card managing it's 8x LFF drives in the internal bays.
An MSA60, connected via HP Mini SAS ...
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EVGA GT1300 doesn't power 4TB Dell SAS drives from its SATA connectors, but does when connected to Molex; Why?
I've been having problems with enrolling some SAS hard drives (on a ZFS ZOL system of mine).
I had an EVGA 600w power supply. I thought maybe it was that or cables. I replaced the cables, still had ...
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How do you decode SAS "Sense" or "CDB" data reported by an HBA or RAID controller?
My Broadcom-based RAID adapter (Cisco UCSC-RAID-M5HD) reported the following "Unexpected sense" error:
Unexpected sense: PD #012 = Port 0 - 7:1:9No addtional sense information, CDB ...
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How to reuse a SAS Samsung 1.92TB SSD after NIST800-88?
I bought a SAS (serial SCSI, not serial SATA) SSD from this eBay listing titled: "EMC MZILS1T9HCHP-000C3 1.92TB PM1633 SAS 12GBPS 2.5" SSD, Erased with NIST800-88".
I have read that ...
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SAS RAID controller or SATA for typical Windows 10 installation?
I purchased an HP Z620 recently. It came with one Xeon CPU, 32GB of RAM, and an LSI SAS 9212-4i controller. I'm planning to install Windows 10 on a typical SSD drive (non-NVMe).
This machine has 6 ...
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P420 Hewlett Packard RAID controller reporting identical physicaldrive in all HDD disks
Followed this article to install HP Smart Storage Utilities on Linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
https://www.jimmdenton.com/hp-raid-tools-ubuntu/
I have an UNYKAch Server Rack Hot Swap 4U 24 Bay. I am using a ...
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Installing a SAS drive (No SAS controller available on the motherboard)
I know that I can't connect the SAS drive (a Seagate Exos X16 ST12000NM002G) directly to the motherboard as the motherboard doesn't have a SAS controller so I'll need to get a PCIe SATA controller ...
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How do I troubleshoot an LSI HBA card that is not recognized as a controller `storcli`?
first time posting in here, I hope I'm not off-topic.
I am trying to set up a Supermicro CSE-826 chassis, but with an ASRock J4005B-ITX board and an LSI SAS 9207-4i4e card instead of an officially ...
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Someone asked me about PCIe GEN 3 X16 to Mini SAS HD 8X Dual Port Adapter (sff-8643) which led to some confusion about pcie and how it works
A friend of mine had an old computer and wanted to set it up as a server and wanted to try using a sas connector's for the first time and asked me how it worked... Well i have never used sas stuff as ...
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Can i use a SAS drive on my backplane?
I have a Lian Li PC-011 Dynamic XL case. It comes with 4 hot pluggable HDD slots that are accessible from the back. I know they work for SATA drives, as i have 1 4TB drive plugged into it right now ...
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