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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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On a RAID controller card, what is the difference between the connector, port, and device numbers?

I'm looking at RAID controllers, specifically the (Avago) LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 9261-8i. It is a 8-port card, which I would be able to "Connect up to 128 SATA or SAS drives with eight internal 6 Gb/s SATA and SAS ports" but I only see two…
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Moving MegaRAID SAS 9240-8i to case with a backplane: anything to be scared of?

Currently we have a "homemade" ESXi server that has been put in a Supermicro SC842i-500B chassis; this is obviously suboptimal, given that we do have a RAID 10 setup (6 SATA disks, with a MegaRAID SAS 9240-8i RAID controller) but the chassis does…
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Recover ATA SSD After Secure Erase Without Setting Password

I have received an ATA SSD drive which was secure erased before being handed over. When it was secure erased (using the "Disk Eraser" tool on Parted Magic LiveCD), the default NULL password was entered into the GUI. However, no password was set…
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Server throwing error on drive: status: { DRDY ERR }, error: { ABRT }, failed command: READ DMA EXT

I have a server from Red Barn that has been throwing errors accessing its local SATA flash drive. Here are some facts: I'm running Ubuntu 15.10, although two other similar Supermicro servers are as well, with no trouble. The root drive is a SATA…
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Can't mount SATA drives when moved from USB enclosure to internal

I have had 4 external drives connected over USB to my Dell Precision 490 workstation. They are in /etc/fstab by uuid and formated as UUID. UUID=04c37bff-b93e-440e-acd0-3d984ddb2ec3 /mnt/drive0 ext4 defaults,nobootwait 0…
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Is it possible to replace the SATA CD-ROM to SATA HDD\SSD on my dell R610?

Like many people, I do not use a CD-ROM on my server is it possible to replace the SATA CD-ROM to SATA HDD\SSD on my dell R610? Thanks
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CentOS 6: SATA link down when scanning for unused drives

I recently inherited a CentOS 6 server with 8 installed hard drives. 6 of these drives were going to be configured as an LVM, but never got that far. The drives are installed and, from what I can tell, healthy, but lsblk does not show them, nor does…
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What speed should I expect from an MSA60 attached to an HP p212

I have an HP DL380 G5 with a P212 controller and a 256MB cache card/battery. The P212 is hooked up to an MSA60 enclosure, which for testing, I have populated with 8x 500GB 7.2k SATA disks. I know after a lot of research, that the MSA60 will only…
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ESXI 5.5 Doesn't see full hard drive

I have an ESXI 5.5 host which I've had up for a while (whitebox build) and I've recently replaced one of the internal hard drives due to failure (not raid, directly connected to the SATA controller). The new drive is EXACTLY the same as the one I…
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Can a RAID card be used just to connect an optical drive?

This is one of those daft "I bought some used equipment on eBay' type questions. I have an IBM xServer with a SCSI RAID running CentOS 6 and I bought this 3Ware 9500 SATA RAID card thinking I could use it to add SATA bus for a DVD upgrade to…
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Inexspensive SATA raid controller for small virtualization host

I've had a few issues running software raid on XenServer, and I would also like to try out VMware ESXi which won't easily be combined with a software raid. Are there any low cost PCI cards that would run 8 s-ata spindles in raid 5 and is supported…
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HD recognized by BIOS but not Linux or GParted

I have an old (2007) Dell Precision Workstation 690 with Ubuntu 12.04. It has 2 mirrored 139G SAS drives for OS and 2 WD Black 2TB data drives that were formatted ext4 and rsynced and had my virtual machines on them. We had an extended power…
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3rd party HDDs in Dell Poweredge r805

I have a Dell Poweregde R805 Server that came with two 147GB 10K SAS drives. To stack up the storage on this machine, i purchased two SATA drives (HGST Travelstar Z7K500, 500GB, 7200RPM, SATA III). The RAID controller is a PERC 6/i. The new drives…
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Difference "SATA style SAS connector" (SFF8482) and SATA

I own a tape drive with a SATA shaped connector on the backside, but the datasheet says it should be connected to SFF8482. I saw, that SFF8482 is usually converted to up to 4x SATA connectors, so my question is, if this drive could be connected to a…
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R610 PERC 6iR - Incompatible with SATA

I purchased a couple R610 servers which has been a constant source of frustration lately. I got a heck of a deal on them with a single 2.93 Ghz processor and 96GB RAM, so I cannibalized one and got a dual processor with 192GB RAM and then started…
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