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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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Does the Dell backplane affect the speed of the drives?

I've already checked the following questions but couldn't find an answer: Does the backplane on an HP server have any impact on the speed of the drives? 3rd party SSD drive in HP Proliant server only shows 3G transfer speed In both the above…
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ChkDsk Timout during repair attempt

I started chkdsk H: /F /R /X as admin on a SATA harddisk (WD Caviar Green 1TB) that I mounted using an USB adapter. After a while the operation timed out with the message The specified I/O on \Device\Harddisk3\DR60 was not completed before the…
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ESXi free with 2 VMs dedicated for FEM analysis on a HW RAID1 2x SATA 7.2k ML150 Gen9

I need to build a new server/super workstation for FEM calculations to replace current dual-boot solution, where either windows or unix is working at the time. This new unit is planned to have 24C/48T, 256GB RAM. As right now often resources are not…
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Hard disk reporting incorrect size in BIOS

I have a server with a software RAID system. There are 4 disk in the array: 4 x 4TB model WD40EFRX-68WT0N0 I noticed that the OS was reporting one of the disks to be 3TB, so I rebooted and checked in the BIOS and it also reports 3TB. Whereas it…
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Does ESXi 6.0 Support any PCIe x1 SATA RAID Controllers?

I'm trying to find a PCIe x1 SATA RAID controller, that is supported by ESXi 6. I've spent hours searching the ESXi compatibility site, however I have yet to come across one. Is this a fruitless search?
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Which bandwith can i expect, when i´m running a SATA SSD on a SAS interface?

So, i know this question had been asked before. I consider to buy a SSD for my Server, because i kinda hate the SAS HDDs in there. I thought: If i connect a SSD, which, in fact, handles way more than 550MB/s which the SATA6 can, to a SAS Interface,…
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Upgrade RAID 10 with 7200RPM SATA

We have a Dell T320 with a S110 software RAID with 7200RPM SATA drives. The RAID level is 10 with four drives. I underestimated the demand on the disk, and it is now a major bottleneck of the system. Is it possible to replace the drives with…
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CentOS - Raid Speed Below Single Disk

I'm encountering some odd behavior and wondering if anyone has ideas what would be causing it. Setup: 2x 2.4GHz Opteron quad cores, 8GB RAM, 2x 500GB 7200 RPM SATA2 drives, with Clean minimal CentOS 7 install running no workloads (yet) and nothing…
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Sata Disk very poor performance

I have a HP MicroServer NL54, stock BIOS, with 4 HDs Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache. If I run a dd benchmark I get: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=4K count=4096 4096+0 records in 4096+0 records out 16777216 bytes (17 MB)…
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How to connect a SATA / ESATA / USB 3.0 device over Gigabit Ethernet

I am looking for a way to connect an 5.25 SATA removable drive bay from CRU to our HP Proliant 360 blade server. Unfortunately the server has no support for USB 3.0 and no free PCI slot to upgrade USB 3.0 functionality. Also it doesn't have an eSATA…
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Is using a PCI-E SATA Controller equivalent to the onboard controller

I have a Windows Server, in which the on-board SATA controller is broken and the machine can not identify any of the connected disks. To overcome the issue I am thinking of buying PCI-E SATA Controller and connect all the available disk devices on…
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SATA drivers in Debian squeeze

I have Debian Squeeze installed on a compact flash card in ATA port. I copied the whole system to SATA drive but system holds in initramfs because can't mount root file system. I know that my system don't have support for SATA drives - I don't see…
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Large SATA drives in HP ProLiant 585 G5 server?

I have been reading in the manual that the 8, 2.5 hard drive slots use up to 500gb SAS each, for a maximum of 4TB. So my question is, what if I wanted to use one regular 1TB 2.5 sata hard drive in one of the slots? Would the server recognize it, or…
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How do you figure out why a drive is dropping out on a Marvell Raid Controller?

I just got a Marvell SATA Raid controller for my Dell T-410 (the existing Raid card was full 0+1); trying to use it with 2 drives in Raid-1, but one of the drives keeps falling out. The log shows nothing... is there any way to figure out why the WD…
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What types of workloads require SAS disks compared to SATA?

I am looking to outfit my new server (new to me) with larger capacity disks. The server right now has 4 SAS 146GB disks in it. My original thought was to just buy larger SAS disks and replace or add more disks to the existing configuration. The…
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