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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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scsi and ata entries for same hard drive under /dev/disk/by-id

I am trying to set up a ZFS pool using 4 bare drives which I have attached to my Ubuntu system via a SATA hot swap backplane. These are Hitachi SATA drives. When I list the contents of /dev/disk/by-id, I see two entries for each…
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Faulty SATA disk but with a periodic error?

I have a Seagate St2000dm001 2TB Barracuda Sata3 disk that is producing errors similar to this : [Tue Jun 14 10:02:06 2022] ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen [Tue Jun 14 10:02:06 2022] ata2.00: failed command: WRITE…
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SCSI vs SATA? Is SCSI "actually" better?

Well, I was talking with a guy about servers the other day. I was a bit shocked whenever I asked him if there was any significant difference between SCSI and SATA and why he always uses SCSI. (note, I'm not sure if by SCSI he meant SAS) He told me…
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Are SATA 1, 2 and 3 cables interchangeable?

I've got an older SATA drive (not sure if it's SATA 1 or 2). Same size plug as my new SATA 3 M/B. Are the cables interchangeable? Any decrease in performance from using a "lower" cable?
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Any experience with SATA SAS Interposer Cards?

Driven by the current price difference between SATA and SAS disks on one side and the potentially bad behaviour of SATA disks in bigger storage arrays on the other side, I have found so-called SATA-to-SAS interposer cards. Advertised as "seamlessly…
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So you really can push a SATA2 disk into a SAS backplane?

There's only one SAS, right? Serial attached SCSI? The female connectors: SATA2 looks like: ------------| |------- And SAS looks : ------------+-+------- For me, the SATA2 male connector looks like it has little corners in the middle that would…
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HDD: performance differences between 7.2k SATA and 15k SAS

What is the rule of thumb in performance characteristics and differences between 7200rpm (SATA/SAS) and 15000rpm (SAS) hard disc drives of the same generation?
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ssd firmware, linux: updating large batch of drives

I was recently hit with a fatal firmware bug that affected dozens of Crucial SSDs deployed in my datacenter. Many of the affected machines use LSI or other proprietary SAS controllers, which Crucial's bootable ISO does not recognize. None of the…
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SATA drives in HP ProLiant server?

Does anyone know if I can install normal 2.5" SATA drives inside an HP DL360 G5 server? Right now it has 6 72GB SAS drives. I am looking for raw storage for my files SAS performance in not required.
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S-SATA Vs I-SATA (PCH, SCU)

My mother board contains SATA-3 ports however some are listed as S-SATA and I-SATA as shown in the manual: I have plugged some harddrives in each of these ports and they both work fine. However I want to know the difference between these ports and…
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What is a SSATA port?

I bought an ASUS ZPE10-D16 motherboard for a server I'm building. The manual describes two banks of SATA ports; a group of four it calls SSATA, instead of just SATA ports. I'm wondering if there's any difference between the SSATA ports and the…
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Is SATA-2 backwards compatible with SATA-1?

As per the title, are the two versions compatible?
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Can we upgrade Dell's basic Server R240 (which still uses HDD 7200RPM) to an SSD?

Today I was shopping for the most basic dell rack server which is the R240. Ironically, they are still using HDD 7200 RPM, with no option for SSD in their selection; and we're approaching…
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hard resetting link exception Emask 0x50 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4090800 action 0xe frozen

Following situation: A productive linux debian 7 server with kernel 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.68-1+deb7u2 x86_64 GNU/Linux Manufacturer: Supermicro Product Name: X10SLL-F Version: 1.02 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Lynx Point 6-port SATA…
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Is there way to read sectors from SATA drive without ECC correction?

I know, there was such possibility like that in old ATA standards: "READ LONG" command produced LBA sector + ECC payload. sg_read_long supports in in linux, but the command is obsolete for quite a long time, so I'm not surprised, that my HDD does…
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