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 Drive order for unknown Ubuntu Distro with multiple partitions
We have a server that was being decommissioned and it was thought that all the data and services had been migrated to new systems. Instructions to our tech was to remove drives and prepare the system for recycling. Just before this was done it was…
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How to replace SCSI with SATA or adapt SCSI to SATA drives
At first, I apologize for my question, but I am complete beginner.
My friend gave me an old HP Proliant DL385 server which was replaced in bank, where he works, by newer stuff. Because of privacy, he removed all hard-drives from it and told me that…
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What limits a Device not to detect multiple LUNs behind a single target?
What limits a Device not to detect multiple LUNs behind a single target? What is required to make this possible in broad perspective?
I want to know if there are any limitations in SAS/SATA or SCSI? (<- My only focus areas)
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HyperV Eject passthru disk while VM is running
I have a disk that I need to connect as a pass thru for one of my guest OSes, sbs 2011. The guests internal backup program will backup to the disk, which I'm planning to attach to the VMS SCSI controller. Since its a backup disk I also want to…
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Attaching SATA device disturbs boot order
I'm running a Supermicro X7DCA board in a NAS server.
Whenever I plug in a sata disk the boot sequence goes out of order.
This is a problem, because it is running headless.
I've had this problem many times before with other consumer…
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LSI Megaraid 150-6 as regular SATA controller
I have an old but reliable server board that does not have any SATA ports on it.
Also i have LSI Megararaid 150-6 (with latest firmware) which i want to use as ordinary "dumb" SATA controller.
I don't want to use any RAID functionality of the…
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Can proprietary SATA/SAS drives be used in a standard SATA controller
If I take SATA or SAS drives out of a Dell or HP server and install them in a different machine with a standard SATA or SAS controller will they still be readable? Obviously if they are part of a hardware array they won't but if they are part of a…
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Connecting SATA 3 to SAS port performance analysis
SATA 3 hard disk can be connected to SAS ports. But If i connect SATA 3 drive to a SAS port then can i get same speed as SATA 3 originally offers or will it be a difference? Will it reduce the performance than connecting to a SATA 3 port.
I have a…
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2950 internal backup SATA drive
We have a Dell 2950 II with 4 76GB drives in a RAID 10 configuration, running ESXi and 5 virtual machines. The RAID controller is Perc5/i. There is a low transaction rate, so this gives us minimal hardware and lots of performance for our needs. We…
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Dell PowerVault MD1000 + PN939
I have a Dell PowerVault MD1000 with all hard drives damaged.
I want to know if it is possible to replace the SAS drives with SATA drives + PN939 or similar interposer.
I know that SATA drives are not so performant but performance is not an issue. …
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Beginner SAS and SAS2 speed expectations
We have one SAS backplane, without SAS expander, with 8 HDDs and we connect it to the motherboard with 2 SFF-8087 to 4 sas/sata cables.
The motherboard supports SAS2 and the SSD supports SAS2. How fast will my SSD be, 300MB/S or 600MB/S?
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SATA Disk not recognized in brand new server
We bought a HP Proliant ml350 g6 server for our work place. It comes with RAID 5 supportted by SAS disks. It also has SATA 750 GB disk.
We wanted to install windows server 2008, but the SATA disk is not detected. I thought it was a driver issue and…
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Can a gen3 SATA harddrive be forced to always link at gen2 speed?
Is there a PC tool to program a gen3 SATA harddrive to avoid a link attempt at the gen3 speed (6Gb) and always start the link negotiation at the gen2 speed (3Gb)?
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IBM x3650 M1 SATA support up to 2 Tb
I have an IBM x3650 (M1 [i think because of DDR2 rams]), an as i know it only support SATA hard drvies only up to 1 Tb.
Is there any RAID controller firmware/BIOS update which can give the server 2 tb hard drives support?
And how can is update…
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Mount dell perc (megaraid) partitions on linux box without hardware raid
I have sata hard disk extracted from Dell server with perc 5i.
I need to save data on another linux box, without hardware raid.
Is it possible? How?
I know there are two partitions on this disk, but when I connect it, "cfdisk" show me only one, and …
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