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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HP ProLiant with SATA/SAS Drives
I Currently have a DL350 G5. I have 4 74GB SAS drives in RAID that work fine but I tried to add a 1TB WD RED SATA drive for some storage and the RAID controlling isn't giving me an option to create a new logical disk.
At first I thought it might be…
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Using consumer grade hard drives in a server
My company needs to upgrade a couple of (very) old servers we are currently running, but we are kinda strapped for cash.
We got a great offer on a pair of HP DL360 G6 servers, but the hard drive cost for either SAS or enterprise SATA is ridicuouls,…
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FreeBSD 9.2 shows SATA3 drives as SATA2
I'm running FreeBSD 9.2 on an Intel S2600GZ server board with 4 Intel SSDs. Both the server board as well as the disks are SATA3 capable. However, FreeBSD seems to think they are SATA2. Nowhere in system configuration are the disks limited to SATA2.…
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How to connect SATA disks to copy large amounts of data from them to HP server running CentOS 6
We have an HP Proliant DL320e running CentOS 6.
We will get SATA hard disks with data in the formats NTFS, FAT, HFS and HFS+ from which we would like to copy the files to the server (read-only), preferably without having to reboot the server each…
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Can I put in laptop 2.5" SATA drives into an HP ProLiant DL380 G5?
I have an HP DL380 G5 server and I was wondering if can I put in standard notebook 2.5" SATA drives?
In the front where the drives go, the SATA connections dont seem to fit.
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how do you mount and format /dev/sda to a different /dev/ name?
We have linux box running fedora. It has a small laptop hard drive running the OS and a 3ware RAID controller running 3 SATA drives RAID 5.
When we boot the computer and login, I run “fdisk –l” and it lists all the hda partitions. No /dev/sda. …
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Connecting our first tape drive (SAS) to SATA bus
Our small team is considering buying our first tape drive for backups. However, we are still lacking serious enterprise-grade servers and have to rely temporarily on SATA drives in our rigs. Cost considerations argue against setting up a high-end…
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RAID card w/1x mini-SAS connector : how do I physically connect 16 disks?
I'm looking at a MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i Sgl card which has a single X4 Mini-SAS SFF8087 connector. As far as I know, such a connector can be expanded to 4 SATA disks. So, I would know how to connect 4 SATA disks. However, the documentation says it…
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Are SAS Drives really worth their money and are they much better than todays latest SATA?
The price difference between SATA and SAS is really very big. Of course I understood, that SAS drives have their advantages, but does this really legitimate a price difference of 100% or more? Should I really spend 1 Euro per GB?
Of course I…
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Mixing 15K rpm SAS with 7.2K rpm SATA on Dell PowerEdge R610
Is it possible to mix 15K rpm SAS with 7.2K rpm SATA on Dell PowerEdge R610 on the same RAID configuration (Raid 5)?
Is the SAS' speed going to drop to follow the lowest speed (the SATA speed)?
and the storage cap, is it going to drop to the…
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Abort raid6 expansion on Adaptec 52445 SATA RAID?
I am expanding my raid6 array from 18x2Tb to 20x2Tb disks and after 3 weeks status shows:
Logical device Task:
Logical device : 0
Task ID : 105
Current operation : Reconfiguration
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Can I use a Smart Array P410 controller on a HP Proliant DL 180 G5 server?
This link says the HP Proliant DL 180 G5 server only supports Smart Array E200, E500, P400 and P800 controllers.
Can I use a Smart Array P410 instead?
Currently the server has only the default internal controller, I need an additional one for better…
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Are there different kinds of Mini SAS to 4x SATA reverse breakout cables?
I have an RPC-4224 case that has 24 bays with 6 Mini SAS ports. I needed a cable to break out one of them into 4 SATA ports, so I went down to my local Fry's Electronics and bought one. The cable came with a "sideband" cable that says optional on…
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Difference between LSI SAS3081E-R vs. LSI SAS3081E-S SAS/ATA HBAs
I'm trying to figure out if there are any differences between the "R" vs. the "S" of this SAS controller. As far as I can tell, the "S" is a Sun Microsystems re-branded version. I can't find much solid documentation on the "S" version.
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Can I mix SAS and SATA2 drives on one controller?
I've read here that I can't mix SAS and SATA2 drives on the same controller - is that really true? I understand I shouldn't mix on the same channel, but the same card!?
For example, when I plug my 6-drive backplane (IBM x3650-7979) via SFF-8087…
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