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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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Why is one drive running at 3.0gb/s?

I have a server where I will be updating the Adaptec RAID controllers firmware and drivers soon, and so I was arcconf to check a few things. The four disks are all the same model configured as a RAID10 volume. In running the GETCONFIG of arcconf, I…
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Switch SATA disks in DELL PowerEdge R410

I need a 1U rackserver for hosting a website running on Windows Server and MS SQL. I plan to have a SSD drive for the system and SQL database and a large 1-2 TB standard SATA HDD for a lot of datafiles that needs to be served from the website. The…
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Add a SCSI disk on Linux without rebooting

I added new disk to my running Linux virtual machine. Is it possible to add a SCSI/SATA device explicitly, or to re-scan an entire SCSI/SATA host bus without rebooting a running Linux?
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Testing Hard Drives

First off, I hope this is the right location for this question, if not, any guidance on where to go would be greatly appreciated. I am looking for some equipment to test multiple hard drives. In the past, we used a simple Drive Duplicator and just…
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SATA port multiplier connected disks performing poorly

I have three disks making up a RAID-Z vdev in a zfs pool on Ubuntu Server 16.04.2 which are connected via a cheap PCIE SATA card, a single eSATA cable, and a port multiplier at the other end. iostat shows these disks are performing extremely poorly…
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Supermicro server not detecting SAS drives

I got a used Supermicro server with no drives in it. When I plug in a SATA drive it detects it just fine but when I plug in a SAS drive, even the BIOS will not detect the drive. It looks like the backplane has SAS connectors on it, but I'm not sure…
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Hard resetting link, limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps

Lenovo G500 laptop, Debian Jessie 8.7 Here is my dmesg output: [22957.061286] ata3: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen [22957.061294] ata3: irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed [22957.061297] ata3: SError: {…
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HP DL580 HDD Fan Issue

I recently obtained an HP ProLiant DL580 G7 without any HDDs so I went ahead and installed an SSD which works great and the other day I ordered a 2.5" SATA 2 TB HDD (ST2000LMB15). After installing the new SATA drive, one of the temperature sensors…
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booting halts due to new disks being connected

I have a Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 motherboard with the latest BIOS flashed in (version F13). I also have 4x sata disks (in proven working condition) from a different server. Two of them are Western Digital ATA WDC WD1003FBYZ-0 and the other 2 the (very…
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Is it possible to replace the SATA CD-ROM to SATA SSD on HP DL360p Gen8?

Can I connect an SDD instead of CD-ROM ? I found Miscellaneous cable kit 671353-001, include Includes the front video adapter cable, embedded SATA cable, Capacitor Pack with 36-inch cable (provides back up power to the FBWC memory module), and…
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Does the backplane on an HP server have any impact on the speed of the drives?

I have an HP Proliant DL380 Gen7. The server currently has no drives and is running on the integrated smart array controller. I was looking into replacing the controller with an LSI-9211-8i controller and adding some SATA III (6gbps) drives. I know…
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Does any SATA drive work in any SATA port?

I was under the assumption (apart from restrictions due to old operating systems not being able to read large drives) that as long as a hard drive was of the same type as what is available for the computer (e.g. if the computer has IDE, you can plug…
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Is there any downside to having 4 SSDs in RAID 10 on the same SATA controller as a DVD drive?

Setting up a new server; the motherboard is a Supermicro X10SRW-F. It has two SATA controllers, one with 6 ports, one with 4. The one with 6 ports already has a DVD drive connected to it. I'm about to use 4 x 512GB SSD drives in a RAID 10 array, and…
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Very irregular disk write performance and repeated SATA timeouts

I have a new 8TB Seagate Archive disk in one of my machines (Ubuntu 14.04.2, Kernel 3.19 from git.freedesktop.org, MSI 7817, Haswell chipset, i5-4570 CPU) and there are multiple issues with this disk. See also here. First, every now and then the…
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Compatible SATA disks for Proliant ML350 G5 server

I have got a Proliant ML350 G5 server with two SAS drives of 146GB in RAID 1+0, but I would to add two SATA drives of 500GB in another RAID 1+0, but I don't know which are compatible. The measure of the SAS drives are 2.5', I suppose that the SATA…
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