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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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SSD in early 2008 Xserve Apple Drive Module

Pretty much the title: it possible to use a modern, 2.5″ SSD in an Apple Drive Module on a early 2008 Xserve? This would be replacing a 15k RPM SAS drive, and in most places I've looked that HDD is almost as expensive than a similarly sized SSD.
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Installed 2TB disk in ubuntu server, dmesg reports it as 9444732965540666 MB

I've have an ageing Linux server running on Dell PowerEdge hardware, with a SAS 5IR RAID controller. It has a pair of SAS 146Gb disks in a RAID 1 configuration that has the OS and other software. I have a need to add a large chunk of storage to the…
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"Transparent" SATA RAID Controllers

I'm looking for a true hardware SATA RAID controller that can do levels 0, 1, and 5 and is, for a lack of a better term, "transparent" to the OS in that it requires no software drivers whatsoever. Does such a beast exist? If so I would appreciate…
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How do I power SATA drives in my DELL poweredge 2850?

I have a Dell 2850 which I've been fairly happy with. It runs RAID 5 to 6 Hot-swap SCSI drives, but I'd like to add some cheap storage. So I bought an Intel PCI-X SATA raid card and tried to install it. Problem is that my 2U server doesn't have any…
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Disable ESXi passthrough on SATA controller

I have a newly built ESXi server with two SSD's hooked up to the motherboard primary SATA controller. Everything was working until I made the mistake of enabling passthrough on that SATA controller. Now, ESXi will reboot & come up complaining it…
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smart Raw_Read_Error_Rate

Need experts opinions. Have disk. Here is smart output of Seagate "Barracuda 7200.10 family": ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 096 089 006 …
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Large SATA hard drive for Intellistation A Pro 6217

I posted this question to the IBM forums, but got no response! I'm hoping someone here will be able to help. I have recently become the lucky new owner of an Intellistation A Pro 6217. I would like to install some large SATA disks, but have not…
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sata timeout on webserver

I have a web server. About 100-150 virtual hosts. Just small websites. My first post is here: SATA hdd errors , but now I have new error on other disk. 1. I have problem with sata disk as described in the link. 2. I have put in other disk and... no…
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What is the value/cost of enabling "spread spectrum clocking" on my hard drives?

I'm building up a biggish NAS box (10x WD RE4 2TB SATA RAID10) and ran into some problems. During the course of my research, debugging, investigations, etc, I discovered a jumper on the physical drives labeled "spread spectrum clocking". After…
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linux kernel option to set sata disk to udma/133 1.5gbps

i try to speed up boot time of my linux server box which uses removable HDD rack's the current boot time is around 2 min's but if i connect the hdd's directly to the mainboard its about 2 sec's the problem is that ahci's kernel implementation causes…
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12G SAS Expander with 6G disks limiting speed?

I'm building a server with 24 SATA III disks connected to a Chenbro 12G SAS expander on a 12G SAS HBA (LSI 9300) with a single SFF-8643 cable. Aggregate write speed is slower than I hoped for, and I'm wondering if this is due to the lack of Store &…
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What is the best hard drive type for a small file server?

I have a fairly speedy computer that I'd like to use as a file server. The motherboard has IDE and SCSI ports. What is the best hard drive type to use? (IDE/SATA/SCSI, etc) Would it be smart to get a SATA card to run drives? Usage: 15 users,…
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ESXI Single drive SATA performance (onboard HP Proliant SATA SSD Port)

Good day, Sorry for my English, it is not my native language, and recenly I have less than it should be practice in analytical writing. I have an ESXi 6.0.0 Update 2 installed on a bare metal HP Proliant server. It operatesgood enough with 2…
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Manually executing option roms (PCIe SATA storage card)

I have an older Dell server, a Poweredge 2900 II, and I would like to use it with large HDDs (> 8 TB). For this, an expansion card is needed, since the motherboard nor the PERC RAID controller can deal with drive larger than 2 TB. However, the BIOS…
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Changing SATA/SAS and SSD/HDD mix capabilities on a raid controller

We are currently facing the challenge of replacing disks in a raid 1 configuration of a standalone server. The server is quiet old and uses 10k SAS HDD drives together with a Fujitsu D2616 (based on LSI SAS2108). One of the two drives failed.…
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