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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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What does SATAu mean on Dells driver carriers?

I purchased an used Dell PowerEdge R630 online and had the option to get it preinstalled with some SATA drives, but I declined as I want to install my own (brand-new) SATA SSD drives. (I don't trust used SSDs, especially older ones wear out too fast…
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RAID controller link speed with mixed drive types

What will be the negotiated speed if I mix 6 and 12gbps SATA and SAS drives in a single h/w RAID controller, but keep them in the separate raid groups? Let's take LSI (Dell PERC H730) as an example with 2 x SATA @6Gbps in RAID1 and 2 x SAS @12Gbps…
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HDD SATA speed setting

I just noticed this info from smartctl Does that mean I'm running inferior SATA II speed? If yes, how do I enable SATA III speed? smartctl 7.1 2019-12-30 r5022 [x86_64-linux-5.4.0-37-generic] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen,…
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Is the limitation of SATA attached drives on an LSI based SAS expander an ongoing issue?

In my research on developing a low-cost external drive bay for my server, I was presented with a critical issue in attaching commodity SATA drives through any SAS expander based on the LSI controller chip. Is anyone else aware of this issue? Is…
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Is my server drive on SATA2 or SATA3 based on this output?

smartctl output: # smartctl -a /dev/sda | grep SATA SATA Version is: SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s) dmesg output (empty): # dmesg | grep SATA hdparm output: # hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep SATA Transport: Serial, ATA8-AST, SATA 1.0a, SATA II…
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Ceph with mainstream (desktop) SSDs?

I am searching for an answer about using SSDs drivers, which are build for the mainstream. Afaik ceph uses for its marketing to buy cheap disks for entprise ready storages. But I cannot find any details or tests about this. E.g. if you take a look…
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What's the difference between 10k/15k SAS HDDs and SATA SSDs?

What is the rule of thumb in performance characteristics and differences between 10k / 15k revolutions per minute (RPM) Serial Attached Storage (SAS) hard disc drives (HDDs), versus Serial ATA (SATA) 6Gbps solid state drives (SSDs) of the same…
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New large HDD on Ubuntu server

I am running Ubuntu 18.04 on a server which at present only uses the system SSD for file storage. I have now connected a SATA HDD of 16TB which fdisk recognises at dev/sda as 14.6TiB. System disk appears to be named /dev/mapper/sda3_crypt(it is…
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How to disable redundant path warning for a d2600 with 12 HP SATA drives?

Have a HP p822 RAID controller with FirmWare 8.32 cabled to a HPE d2600 with 12 x 4TB SATA drives in RAID60. These are not dual-port SAS drives, but 4TB SATA drives so there is only one pathway to each drive. With either one or two miniSAS cables,…
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Internal HDD keep being dropped

I own a server on which I run flexraid and since a couple of weeks, I get the issue that whenever the server is doing some heavy operations on the RAID, one or more harddrives get dropped. In order to investigate where the problems originate from I…
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Fantec SRC-2080x7 connect backplane from SAS to Sata

I've read this topic: How exactly does a SAS SFF-8087 breakout cable work? + RAID/connection questions Which basically explains that you can go from sata to SAS, but not vice versa. However, from the store page of the Fantec SRC-2080x7 chassis I've…
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How to determine disk connection type in Linux

So this might be an obvious question, but I am managing several servers over a network and I would like to be able to find out what type of connector each server is using (i.e. SATA, SCSI, IDE, etc...) without powering off the machine and looking…
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What is the type of this SATA port called? (On Dell EMC R440 - 14G Server)

I would love to know what's the name of this connector so that I could stock some cables in aftermarket. The Dell Parts for connecting the MB to the 4x Drives Backplane is called "GPPHP", yet the name doesn't suggest what's the port called. So…
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Need help connecting my 8087 Backplane to normal SATA Ports

Motherboard: SuperMicro MBD-X10SL7-F-O Chassis: Norco RPC-3216 Hard Drives: WD Red 2TB NAS HDD Breakout Cables: Norco Reverse Breakout Cables This is a FreeNAS server I put together at home and is running in my garage. It has been running a few…
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Additional SATA power on PowerEdge T130?

I have a new PowerEdge T130 that came with two SATA drives in RAID 1 setup on a PERC ctrl. I want to add another SATA drive not connected to the PERC controller. I opened the case up and see there's one SATA data port on the motherboard and no…
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