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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PERC 6/i will not find my SATA drives
I got a PERC 6/i for our build-system machine running ESXi 5.0update1. The hardware is a MSI X79A-GD65 with Intel X79 chipset, Extreme i7 CPU. I also got a SFF8484->4xSATA cable and connected it to 4 SATA drives (WD10EARX), but I can't get the…
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Dell R510 backplane/LSI RAID card
I've been tasked to price up and order a new server. My plans are for a Dell Poweredge R510 with the 8 HDD option, an LSI 9265-8i RAID card, two Dell 600GB 15k 3.5" SAS drives in RAID 1, and six Intel 520 120GB 2.5" SATA III SSDs in three RAID 1…
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Database server is better to have SAS than SATA, also preferable RAID1?
I want to know if it's better to hast DB server by SAS hard disk than SATA hard disk?
And it's also better to use RAID1.
I don't know much about RAID.
If the server is RAID6 default. Can I change it to RAID1? How?
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ProLiant ML350 Gen9 SATA Questions
Im a newbie with the "real" server-world, previously I've used ordinary pc's for servers but got my hands on a ML350 Gen9 recently and decided to have a go.
Now to my questions.
1, How large SATA drives can the motherboard handle? Thinking of…
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Dealing with an ATA error
my Xubuntu 16.04. produces a non-stop ATA error message. Here is the output of dmesg
[ 4547.943159] ata7: hard resetting link
[ 4548.657810] ata7: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 4548.657824] ata7: EH complete
[ 4548.757449] ata7:…
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What is meant by outstanding IO request in a host controller (e.g. HBA/RAID card)
In context of a host controller (HBA/RAID card) which sends IO traffic to SAS/SATA drives which are part of logical volume - so in such setup, generally I hear a term "Outstanding commands". I did got somewhat understanding that these are number of…
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benefit of SAS controller over typical SATA
as a home user who uses Windows 10 Home Edition more than 90% of the time with a GTX970 and playing steam games what practical benefit would an economical SAS controller provide if any?
yes, I would reinstall win10 on a new SAS SSD
I am planning on…
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Repair windows server 2008 on dell poweredge t710
I really have a big problem. My server could not boot. I have an IMAGE BACKUP but when I try to recover it from external storage it asks me for a driver.
I don't know which driver to use. I have a dell poweredge t710.
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Hp Proliant DL380 G4 Power on without Backplane
I got an HP ProLiant DL380 G4 for free and want to use it with SATA HDDs as described here:
https://serverfault.com/a/516949/290693
But how can i power up the server without the SCSI backplane, because the power Switch connects to it
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What are the pros/cons of software raid made up disk connected over SATA and others over USB?
I would like to use RAID1 with 1 SATA disk and 2 USB disks
PS: This is an ARM board (cubietruck) with only 1 SATA port and 2 USB ports.
PS2: The OS boots from a SD card :)
PS3: The setup does not aim for speed but for data reliability.
Edit: I…
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How could all of my hard drives fail at once?
I have an Ubuntu 13.04 server. Today I found the box had crashed. I restarted it, and now every single hard drive's partition table is missing. (1 SSD for /boot, /, and 3 2TB drives for RAID).
I have the SSD connected to a laptop VIA USB->SATA…
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SATA disks instead of SAS - DELL 2950
I have a DELL 2950 with a PERC5/i controller and a SAS backplane and my intention is to switch to SATA on the cheap. I don't even have drive trays.
This backplane has SAS ports. I just bought 2 trays. Unfortunately those trays do not include…
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How to connect SCA-2 to SATA?
I have SCA-2 hard drive with connector like this:
http://www.ivoryegg.com/imagesNew/150000/154608--659238-7378.jpg
It's possible to connect it to motherboard with SATA?
Thanks!
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I need an adaptor to read my old laptop harddisk
I want to find an adaptor that will allow me to read my old Laptop harddrive. Can someone help me find the right adaptor for this?
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HP ProLiant DL180 Gen9 modding/cabling
I bought a HP ProLiant DL180 Gen9 server in 12LFF drives configuration. Now I'd like to put two additional 2.5" SATA drives inside the case to serve as system drives.
As there isn't a default spot for that inside the case, I thought on using this.…
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