Questions tagged [sas]
Serial Attached SCSI, or SAS, is a storage attachment interface most often used on high-end equipment such as servers, and which is capable of transferring data at up to 12 Gbit/second on the bus.
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Why does my SAS hard drive report "device not ready"?
I have recently bought a HBA card (an LSI 9211-8i flashed to IT mode) and two SAS hard drives - 2x8TB Seagate enterprise hard drives, and I have connected them to my Linux server with a mini-SAS to ...
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How to connect a SAS drive to a SATA motherboard?
I'd like to add 8TB DELL Exos 7E8 drives, model ST8000NM0185, to my servers.
I bought these SAS->SATA adapters to connect them, but the drives aren't detected by the BIOS.
I mainly use ASUS ...
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Why can't I see any devices on my LSI 430-16i SAS/SATA controller?
I received my Lenovo 430-16i LSI SAS3416 9400-16i Tri-Mode HBA Controller 12G IT Mode NAS AU PCIe card yesterday and installation has gone fine, physically speaking.
The firmware is updated and the ...
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Is it possible to connect multiple SATA drives to a U.2 Port of a PC?
I have an Asus Pro WS x570 and I'm reading the document here and it mentions that a the Mini-SAS connector (U.2) can be used with a Mini-SAS HD cable to connect up to four SATA devices. Is this right?
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Does my Fujitsu D3307-A12 RAID Card fit on GIGABYTE B760M? [duplicate]
What I have:
Fujitsu D3307-A12 CP400i 12GB RAID HBA card, cables and couple of SAS drives.
PC with GIGABYTE B760M H DDR4 LGA1700 Micro ATX with free PCIe 4.0 x16 slot.
The PCI slot on MB is longer ...
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HDFS + Using very large disks with HDFS [closed]
from my understanding Using 20-30TB disks with HDFS can present some challenges, but it can also be managed effectively with proper configuration
using 20-30TB disks with HDFS is possible, it requires ...
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Cloning PERC H310 RAID 1 to non RAID SATA disk
I have a Windows 10 PC with the OS drive being 2 SAS drives on a Dell PERC H310 as a mirror.
I want to remove the RAID and install a single SATA SSD. I have some programs to which I have no ...
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SAS HDD Clicking Noise in IDLE - Seeking Advice on PERC H710 Setup (Storage Troubleshooting)
I recently acquired 5 used SAS HDDs with approximately 35 days of service each. It was a great deal compared to purchasing new HDDs, but there was a slight mix-up as I initially thought they were SATA....
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EVGA GT1300 doesn't power 4TB Dell SAS drives from its SATA connectors, but does when connected to Molex; Why?
I've been having problems with enrolling some SAS hard drives (on a ZFS ZOL system of mine).
I had an EVGA 600w power supply. I thought maybe it was that or cables. I replaced the cables, still had ...
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How to reuse a SAS Samsung 1.92TB SSD after NIST800-88?
I bought a SAS (serial SCSI, not serial SATA) SSD from this eBay listing titled: "EMC MZILS1T9HCHP-000C3 1.92TB PM1633 SAS 12GBPS 2.5" SSD, Erased with NIST800-88".
I have read that ...
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SAS RAID controller or SATA for typical Windows 10 installation?
I purchased an HP Z620 recently. It came with one Xeon CPU, 32GB of RAM, and an LSI SAS 9212-4i controller. I'm planning to install Windows 10 on a typical SSD drive (non-NVMe).
This machine has 6 ...
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P420 Hewlett Packard RAID controller reporting identical physicaldrive in all HDD disks
Followed this article to install HP Smart Storage Utilities on Linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
https://www.jimmdenton.com/hp-raid-tools-ubuntu/
I have an UNYKAch Server Rack Hot Swap 4U 24 Bay. I am using a ...
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Installing a SAS drive (No SAS controller available on the motherboard)
I know that I can't connect the SAS drive (a Seagate Exos X16 ST12000NM002G) directly to the motherboard as the motherboard doesn't have a SAS controller so I'll need to get a PCIe SATA controller ...
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How do I troubleshoot an LSI HBA card that is not recognized as a controller `storcli`?
I am trying to set up a Supermicro CSE-826 chassis, but with an ASRock J4005B-ITX board and an LSI SAS 9207-4i4e card instead of an officially Supermicro-supported system.
The backplane in the system ...
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Someone asked me about PCIe GEN 3 X16 to Mini SAS HD 8X Dual Port Adapter (sff-8643) which led to some confusion about pcie and how it works
A friend of mine had an old computer and wanted to set it up as a server and wanted to try using a sas connector's for the first time and asked me how it worked... Well i have never used sas stuff as ...
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