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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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SATA SSD in Dell Server

I have a Dell R815 (PDF LINK), which has 6 2.5" bays. I would like to put some Intel X25-E in the spare bays, but have been cautioned that they may not fit since they are SATA and the bays are SAS/proprietary. On the R815 data sheet it says "Up to…
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Terrible Performance with SATA Drives on Dell PowerEdge, steps to troubleshoot?

I had asked this question earlier and the question went missing so here it is again. Bought a DELL Poweredge 2950 to use as in-house QA Server. Disk performance is beyond terrible, 1000-4000 ms response time on the drive with our SQL Server…
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SATA hard resetting link

Here is my dmesg output: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x2 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen ata2.00: cmd 60/48:08:6f:13:3a/00:00:01:00:00/40 tag 1 ncq 36864 in res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata2.00: status: {…
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Western Digital 1TB SATA and PE 860 using SAS 5 Problem Writing to Drives RAID1

I've got a Dell PE 860 that I recently took out of service to re-purpose. I upgraded the memory from 2GB to 8GB, and replaced 2 80GB WD 7200RPM SATA drives with 2 1TB WD 5400RPM SATA drives. Installed Win2003 64bit and thought things were good.…
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Install Ubuntu on USB drive then put back HD inside computer?

I would like to install Ubuntu on a hard drive that is accessed via USB. Then, when all is OK, replace the computer hard disk with that one that was USB-connected. (Computer used for USB installation and the one receiving the HD is the same…
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SATA card with good hotswap ability

I'm building a Win2k8 backup machine with a removable SATA drive enclosure. The idea is that each week someone will pull out a drive and pop another one in. I need this to work without having to manually rescan disks or reboot. My question is which…
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Mapping raw storage devices to VMs in XenServer 5.6?

In VMware ESXi, we can easily present a raw SATA hard drive to a virtual machine through Raw device mapping. Is it possible in the free edition of XenServer 5.6?
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SATA hdd errors

I have one server with WDC WD3202ABYS ... There are 100 virtual hosts. Server is working about 5 years and in this time period I have change 4 disks. All with same reason: sata error. The last one: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0…
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Win2003 R2 - 1.5TB disks not identified

I just installed 4 1.5TB hard disks (WD) in two servers (2 in each). Upon reboot they are not showing up in the disk manager whatsoever. I'm running Windows Server 2003 EE (32bit) with 8GB ram. They both currently have mirrored 300GB sata disks.…
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PowerEdge430 - BIOS can detect SSD, but OS installer cannot

I have a Samsung SSD 860 EVO 2.5" SATA III 500GB which I'm trying to use as the OS installation drive for a newly-acquired PowerEdge R430 with 8 2.5" drive bays. I've installed the drive in a drive caddy and installed it into the front panel. I am…
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RAID Controller -- SAS Expander -- SATA drives. What max throughput can be expected?

I am building fast recovery solution. And there is a stuck with the choosing of the RAID controller. I have a chain: 24 SATA SSD drives each performing at 4Gbit/s. Total write throughput is 96Gbit/s. SAS Expander Intel RES3TV360. 2x4 SAS IN. 7x4…
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VMWare Server High Processor Usage (Disk I/O)

I have a Dell Power Edge 6850 with 2 physical Dual Quad Core Processors and 24GB of Ram as our VMWare Host Server. We have VMWare Server (Old GSX) installed on this box and have 5 Virtual Servers (Guests) running. The Guest OS's are running off…
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Troubleshooting SATA/SAS reverse breakout cable

For a new server build, I'm trying to connect a SAS HDD backplane (SFF-8643) to a SATA motherboard. From my research, this should be possible using reverse breakout cables. I bought and installed two "SFF-8643 to 4x SATA" reverse breakout cables,…
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Fujitsu D2616 Raid Card Lsi Mega Raid Enable Ports

I have a Fujitsu server with D2616 raid contorller, this has 2 mini SAS ports on it with one connecting into a backpane where i have 4 hdd plugged in. This works fine however wanted some SSD's in there and this card says in specs it has 8 ports so…
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How to use 12 HDDs with the Supermicro BPN-SAS3-826EL1 backplane?

I have got a chassis with the Supermicro BPN-SAS3-826EL1 backplane. This backplane allows 12 HDDs to be attached. However, I obviously haven't yet understood the cabling between the HBA and the backplane which I need to actually use all 12 HDD…
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