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Serial ATA (SATA or Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) is a computer bus interface for connecting host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives and optical drives. Serial ATA was designed to replace the older ATA (AT Attachment) standard (also known as EIDE), offering many advantages over the older parallel ATA (PATA) interface.

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Recover harddrive after abruptly power cut

Following is my partition table, mercurial@providence:~$ sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 465.78 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Disk model: ST9500420AS Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes /…
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sata and sas on the same machine

I know you can't mix SATA and SAS in the same RAID configuration, but is it possible to mount a SATA drive on the same RAID controller as its own logical drive? If not, what do I need in order to mount a single SATA drive on a computer with a set of…
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How to expose raw SATA disks in KVM guest

I have a CentOS 7.3 64-bit host OS and KVM version (qemu-kvm-1.5.3-126.el7.x86_64) and need to run Fedora Core 13 (32-bit) as guest OS. I have recent hardware which has some SATA and IDE disks attached to it. I configured it to expose the raw SATA…
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How do I get rid of this SATARaid screen on boot?

I have a server with a SuperMicro X8SIL-V motherboard. Here's the manual. Every time it boots, it spends about three minutes at this screen: Sil 3124 SATARaid BIOS Version 6.3.18 Copyright (C) 1997-2006 Silicon Image, Inc. Press (Ctrl+S) or F4 to…
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How to use more than 3 hardrives with Supermicro X9DRT-HF board?

I got a 4 node supermicro 2U unit which has 12 how swapable caddies, 3 for each node. The problem is that I want to connect at least 4 if not even 6 drives to a single node. The BIOS reports 3*2 SATA slots which makes me think that I should be able…
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Adding sata disk w/o controller to IBM X3400 M3

We have IBM X3400 M3 with SAS controller and and two disk with raid 1. We need extra space without protection. I try to add standart SATA disk to server. It has two SATA port on mainboard. When I connect SATA disk, it can't boot from SAS controller,…
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third party drives connected to h330 controller in a dell r730xd

We have a bunch of Dell R730xd systems with H330 controllers in them in our data center, and would like to stock some spares to allow us to replace broken disks quickly. (We do have warranty on these servers, but not the gold plated stuff so it will…
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*why* should we not use optical drives on SCU server ports?

So I'm building out a VM/file server using a Supermicro X9SRA, and as I'm figuring out where I want to plug everything in I end up learning about the SCU on the Intel chipsets. I find a few things here here here that basically say "Don't plug…
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SATA3 and backwards compatability

Hay guys, I'm making a NAS for serving my files around my network. I bought a motherboard, a MSI KM4M-V Micro ATX. the spec says that it has "2 SATA 1.5Gb/s connectors". I'm however find these drives quite expensive. Would a SATA3 based drive work…
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Does anyone know if "SATA II" drives are compatible with a Dell SAS 5i/R?

I want to buy some cheaper HDs for our server (it will have practically zero HD access) but I plan to put them into a RAID 1 config, just for peace of mind. Our server is a second-hand PowerEdge 860, with a SAS 5i/R controller on it. The existing…
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"UNMAP not supported" error on a device that supports UNMAP

I was playing with trim/unmap commands on a Samsung SSD (MZ7WD240 model). To check the unmap support on this device i ran the following command: hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep TRIM And as expected the output shows that my device /dev/sda supports…
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HP ProLiant ML350 G5 2.5 Sata slow write speed

im currently running Windows Server 2012 R2 with a HGST (Hitachi) z7k500-500 2.5 SATA drive. I have a Smart Array E200i. Read is about 140MB/S but write is only from 7-14MB/S. I already updated the smart array firmware but same problem. I checked…
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Which disks in an mdadm-managed RAID-10 near-layout array mirror each other? How to distribute it on multiple SATA controllers?

I'm running a small raid10 mdadm array that looks like follows: # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid10] md0 : active raid10 sdd[3] sdc[2] sda2[0] sdb2[1] 5859211264 blocks super 1.2 512K chunks 2 near-copies [4/4] [UUUU] First off, I am…
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HP H240. does it do HW SATA RAID?

I have some needs to get cheap HP 1U for very low end purposes. I'm thinking about DL160 but I have no experience with the low end models. Does the H240 "controller" works with SATA drives? I would like to max it out with 4 LFF drives with 2x…
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Lycom PE-115 firware update possible? Otherwise `smartctl` on FreeNAS reports errors

I have Lycom PE-115 SATA 3 2 Port 6Gbps Low Profile PCI-e 2.0 Host Adapter in my machine running FreeNAS. It seem have some trouble with SMART of SanDisk SSD Plus I connected to it. I've seen reports people had to do a firmware updates for USB…
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