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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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Moving Harddisk to other server

I have a situation that required to move 3 SATA hard Disk from a Dell T100 to T350 Server. This was working 90% ok and the Windows 2008 server started fine need only install Drivers. HD 1Tb (Datafiles) HD 160gb HD 1TB (Hyper-V) But one problem the…
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Wubi SATA Drive Problems

I installed Wubi on my 1TB Sata drive. Windows still works fine but Wubi won't boot. I believe this has to do with the sata drive? Ubuntu installed on a seperate partition works, but I would prefer Wubi.
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RAID 1 after install and two controllers

I have question regarding RAID 1. Can I setup software RAID 1 after having installed the first drive and setup ubuntu 12? I know that during server install and partitioning I can select RAID and setup then, but what I am not clear on is how in the…
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Lost RAID partition for no clear reason

We have some machines with a RAID 1 out of two 2TB hard drives. Now it has been found to the error that the partition was not recognized from OS (Windows in most cases). In the configuration menu there is the message "set0 invalid raid drive". The…
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NCQ: what is a safe maximum of tags per drive

I have 16 Seagate Barracuda ES.2 drives in a RAID array. If I select "tags per drive" parameter too high, I get "unexpected drive timeout" across all drives under heavy use. What value should I select for reliable yet fast operation?
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ML 350 additional SATA RAID controller (mirror only)

I have a Proliant ML350 G8 with two SAS raid arrays currently set up - thereby maxing the default P420i raid controller. I need to set up a large video dump space in addition to this existing set-up (for non backed up, non-critical, temporary…
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Does VMWare ESXi 4.1 work with SATA hard drives?

I'm confused about the hard drive requirements to use VMWare ESXi 4.1 I conducted an experiment on an old desktop PC with a SATA hard drive and it couldn't find it. I'm now ready to go to production but I'm unsure whether a SATA hard drive will be…
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External 2.5" enclosure SATA power only

we have these mini-SAS PCIe SATA III controllers. Mini-SAS enclosures seem to run about $500, but I can use a $10 mini-SAS-to-SATA adapter cable so then all I need is an external enclosure that provides SATA power and has a way to run the cables…
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unable to recover data from failed hdd

my hdd failing (or maybe totally dead) i've connected the hdd via USB but it doesn't appear in fdisk Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512…
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Server crash mount XEN Server sata disk

Our Xen Server crashed and we try to mount the sata disk on an other linx to save the VM's. But unfortunately we are unlucky because the only thing we see is a lot of strange LV mounts. When we do an lvdisplay we get the following output [15:28:44]…
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RAID 1, mixed size drives?

Hi I have a couple of windows systems that I wanted to install RAID 1 onto, I have purchased PCI express controller cards and extra drives, but here I made a mistake, one PC has an existing 3.5" 160Gb SATA drive, and by mistake I bought a 2.5" 160Gb…
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Dedicated server - do SAS disks make a noticeable difference?

Possible Duplicate: What are the merits of SAS vs SATA drives? I am running a linux centos dedicated server. Basic specs are a Intel Dual Core Xeon X3065with 2GB ram and 2 x 160GB Sata drivers in RAID1 configuration. The server is used for host a…
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configuration for max read throughput on ssd: pcie vs sata vs raid

I'm looking to configure a storage setup, using ssd's, that will deliver the fastest read throughput on large (2+ GB) files on a 24 core (12 physical core) system. The data is static for the most part, although occasionally (1x/week) it is…
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Mirrored HDD on Windows 2000 Server become invalid on Windows 7

I have a situation: I had two SATA HDD, on mirror (soft mirrow by Windows), on Windows 2000 Advanced Server x86 then I remove it, throw away the server and keep the disk. Now I want some data on it, so I put the HDD in a USB Sata encloser and put in…
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Windows Server making hard disk accessible after moving to a new installation

I have a serial ata disk running windows server 2003 in an old setup and now our company wanted to upgrade the system. We got a new computer and I transfer the hard disk from one setup to the other. Now every time I boot the computer I see the logo…
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