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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Cloning multiple SATA drives using dd with the assistance of software RAID1
So, I clone lots of Windows-based NTFS drives from images each day and I'm halfway through a project that could potentially help me and others to speed up this process dramatically.
I currently have a set up of Ubuntu 17.10 with mdadm and 16 SATA…
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Slim ATAPI or Slim SATA to SCSI HD50
Is it at all possible to connect a Slim-ATAPI connector (CD-ROM drive) to SCSI HD50?
I have an internal CD-ROM drive with a Slim-ATAPI connector, that I would like to connect to an older 50 pin SCSI device - if…
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Can Sata drives be attached to a SAS backplane receptacle in Dell workstations?
I am configuring a Dell Precision T7610 workstation. It has only two sata ports on board, one connected to a CD/DVD drive, and one free for the 5.25" bay. There are four 3.5 SAS bays with what looks like normal SAS backplane receptacles. …
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When using an external SATA enclosure, how can I discover newly added drives (Ubuntu Linux)?
I have been working on a system for processing data on large numbers of independent hard drives. To accomplish this, I purchased a Sil3124A 4-port eSATA controller card and a 10-bay external SATA drive enclosure.
Hardware…
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SATA disk connected to mother board with SAS cable
I have a server mother board with SATA connections and 2U server case with 8X3,5" drive bays. The bays are connected with two SATA-> SAS cables (as show in the picture below)
So the connection is SATA on mother board -> SAS cable to hdd bay -> SATA…
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SAS connector = 4x SATA automatically?
So I've been looking at server board and I often see some of them having a SAS connector. Base on my previous experience with SAS (Dell Perc6i), I can connect a SAS-to-4xSATA cable so I can use normal drives.
Is this true for all SAS connectors or…
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Is it possible to format a drive from a windows virtual machine on ESXi?
I'm trying to backup data residing on virtual machines on an ESXi host.
What I would like to do is plug a 6TB SATA drive into the motherboard, then format it as NTFS, then backup data residing inside the virtual machine to the 6TB drive, then remove…
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How to correctly connect SFF8643?
I plan to buy Adaptec RAID controller in my workstation.
I have 8i ports with 2xSFF8643. So I need to use 2 cables SFF8643 => 4xSATA (shown on image).
But I can see on image 1 additional connector (latest on the right).
What is it? How should be…
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Dell PowerEdge 1750/1850 using *SATA*?
we're currently looking for a cheap, but reasonably powerful, server to collect analytics and act like a firewall for our Web Application server.
It seems a PowerEdge 1750 or 1850 would do the job nicely, but they both appear to only accept SCSI…
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Windows - Enable write caching on this device
When this option is enabled on a SATA device, does it enable the disks on board write back cache (i.e 32mb) or does it enable the operating systems write back cache (i.e RAM)?
Or more specifically, when the option is not set, does it disable the…
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Is it possible to install a solid state drive into a Sun Ultra 40 M2 workstation?
Our Sun Ultra 40 M2 workstations came with SAS drives, but my understanding is that the backplane will support both SAS and SATA. Sun's docs specify a very limited number of supported drives, but I'm wondering if anyone has actual experience…
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How much cpu (and RAM) is used to rebuild an Intel RSTe RAID 5 (firmware/bios/fake)?
Let's say I have a dual CPU system with:
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2667 v4 3.20GHz 25MB Cache
3 x 1TB SATA3 Seagate Enterprise class in RAID5 on the Intel C612 RSTe Controller
Total final storage is: 2TB
Fault tolerance: 1
256GB RAM
The Intel RSTe is…
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Adding a 2nd Hard drive causing intermittent restart on server
I'm in the middle of configuring a server with circa 6tb storage.
I've got 8x 1TB drives, using a 3ware RAID card (9650SE)
The server also (currently) has 1 additional 250gb SATA drive, with the OS (Windows Server 2008 standard 64 bit) installed on…
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Western Digital Re | Hot-Swap?
As the title suggests; my question is:
Are the Western Digital Re Gold SATA drives for the RAID-systems hot-swap-able?
I cannot find this answer anywhere, sorry if it is a stupid question; but sometimes it's better to ask in order to learn.
Also;…
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Poweredge R715 with H700 & SATA drives
I am taking a class that is all about configuring and deploying physical & virtual servers. So as to be able to do this more readily I bought a bare-bones Dell Poweredge R715, 2 Opteron 6276s, 64GBs DDR3 ECC Registered RAM, an H700 RAID card, and 6…
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