Storage Devices and Controllers

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1. Recommended controllers for Unraid 1 2 3 4 22

   By JorgeB, January 29, 2021
   • 533 replies
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   • methanoid
   • 11 hours ago

2. Failed Drives 1 2 3

   By SSD, May 13, 2015
   • 59 replies
   • 25.9k views
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   • Geck0
   • March 12

3. How to upgrade an LSI HBA firmware using Unraid 1 2 3 4

   By JorgeB, October 15, 2020
   • 84 replies
   • 45.5k views
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   • vertigo12369
   • February 24

4. LSI Controller FW updates IR/IT modes 1 2 3 4 71

   By madburg, May 3, 2011
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   • Borizz.K
   • February 4

5. BackBlaze Reports 1 2 3 4

   By SSD, October 3, 2014
   • 79 replies
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   • Vetteman
   • December 3, 2023

6. Areca Contoller Configuration for unRAID 1 2 3 4 5

   By SSD, March 2, 2015
   • 118 replies
   • 66.5k views
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   • SimonF
   • May 20, 2021

7. Seagate 8TB Shingled Drives in UnRAID 1 2 3 4 21

   By garycase, April 25, 2015
   • 523 replies
   • 178.2k views
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   • Lolight
   • May 15, 2021

8. HPA a.k.a. why are two identical drives different sizes?

   By Rajahal, February 9, 2011
   • 10 replies
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   • S80_UK
   • February 10, 2020

9. (SOLVED) Changed the PCIE lane of my LSI-HBA and now cannot see any drives

   By Ryguy, 6 hours ago
   • 1 reply
   • 79 views
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   • Ryguy
   • 58 minutes ago

10. PCIe Gen 3.0 x1 SATA card

    By Fluxonium, April 18
    • 4 replies
    • 192 views
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    • landS
    • 8 hours ago

11. Super slow parity rebuild with SMR drives in array

    By ruohki, 15 hours ago
    • 4 replies
    • 96 views
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    • ruohki
    • 10 hours ago

12. Questions about setting up SSD cache

    By asbath, April 12
    • 6 replies
    • 298 views
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    • asbath
    • Yesterday at 12:23 AM

13. Drives Detected but show as 0GB

    By Timokew, April 17
    • 2 replies
    • 162 views
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    • Timokew
    • Tuesday at 06:29 PM

14. Moving to Proliant G10 from homegrown Proliant G6

    By larson, Monday at 08:50 PM
    • 0 replies
    • 100 views
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    • larson
    • Monday at 08:50 PM

15. New Inexpensive 24 port SATA PCIE Card

    By bing281, October 27, 2022
    • 18 replies
    • 4.3k views
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    • electron286
    • Sunday at 08:55 PM

16. 2x JMB585 6 Hard Drives

    By Robbaz, March 27, 2023
    • 3 replies
    • 919 views
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    • electron286
    • Sunday at 08:01 PM

17. SAS upgrade checklist?

    By Harblar, April 16
    • 4 replies
    • 255 views
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    • Harblar
    • Saturday at 07:23 PM

18. How do you add lots of hard drive sata ports to your setup?

    By John Danger, November 27, 2022
    • 11 replies
    • 3.9k views
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    • electron286
    • Saturday at 10:52 AM

19. SSD v HDD - reliabity and speed

    By electron286, Saturday at 09:42 AM
    • 0 replies
    • 106 views
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    • electron286
    • Saturday at 09:42 AM

20. Added 2 port PCIe x1 SATA Expander - SMART Uncorrect on the drive

    By sannitig, April 18
    • 8 replies
    • 181 views
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    • JonathanM
    • April 19

21. When to use HBA and when to use SATA expansion card?

    By Thedinotamer, April 6
    • 10 replies
    • 493 views
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    • Thedinotamer
    • April 17

22. 9600-24i for Unraid

    By LeetDonkey, March 31
    • 8 replies
    • 532 views
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    • firstTimer
    • April 17

23. Sata/SAS controllers tested (real world max throughput during parity check) 1 2 3 4 5

    By JorgeB, September 21, 2015
    • 118 replies
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    • JorgeB
    • April 17

24. So your new SAS (or SATA) drive won't start (spin up)?

    By doron, October 4, 2019
    • 20 replies
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    • doron
    • April 15

25. Getting helium warning on non-helium HGST drive

    By sonofdbn, April 14
    • 4 replies
    • 214 views
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    • JorgeB
    • April 15

26. Use a QNAP TL-D1600S Expansion DAS to expand existing Setup

    By timethrow, February 14, 2021
    • 13 replies
    • 3.7k views
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    • Hurf
    • April 13

27. Scrutiny failed my Parity drive after parity rebuild

    By Lebowski89, April 11
    • 4 replies
    • 227 views
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    • Lebowski89
    • April 12

28. PCI-e Sata expansion card 1 2 3 4

    By elnevera, March 5, 2019
    • 76 replies
    • 67.1k views
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    • JorgeB
    • April 11

29. AsMedia or JMB585

    By Ayouby, March 22
    • 3 replies
    • 472 views
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    • electron286
    • April 9

30. does a 9207-8i work on pcie 3.0 x1

    By Eisi2005, November 1, 2022
    • 3 replies
    • 822 views
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    • only-university6482
    • April 8

31. Cache drive questions

    By segway, April 4
    • 5 replies
    • 313 views
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    • segway
    • April 8

32. CAN I USE AN SSHD AS A PARITY DRIVE WITHOUT PROBLEMS?

    By Mario Coelho, April 8
    • 1 reply
    • 191 views
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    • JorgeB
    • April 8

33. Can I swap the two SSDs in my ZFS cache pool to each other's bay?

    By sven, April 7
    • 1 reply
    • 176 views
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    • JorgeB
    • April 8

34. Verdict on LCC and Seagate Exos

    By Lebowski89, April 6
    • 2 replies
    • 235 views
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    • LeetDonkey
    • April 8

35. changing HD array 2TB to 1Tb (newbie)

    By jorgeg73, April 5
    • 1 reply
    • 222 views
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    • JonathanM
    • April 5

36. Help with configuration for SSD Cache & additional SATA Ports

    By scarpall, April 2
    • 3 replies
    • 299 views
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    • JorgeB
    • April 3

37. unraid not seeing physical drives on new server

    By AceBoyden, October 10, 2022
    • 3 replies
    • 878 views
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    • HDB
    • April 3

38. Intel Optane 905P 960GB

    By Sadistic, March 31
    • 9 replies
    • 300 views
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    • Sadistic
    • March 31
39. backup for flash dont going : (

    Topic was moved to forum General Support

40. Do i need to replace these drives?

    By TransformedBG, March 31
    • 1 reply
    • 261 views
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    • ChatNoir
    • March 31

41. Is my brand new 6tb WD Red bad?

    By TheSnuke, March 29
    • 3 replies
    • 306 views
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    • ChatNoir
    • March 30

42. The Best USB Boot Drive That You Will not Buy?

    By OrdinaryButt, February 12, 2022
    • 8 replies
    • 2.6k views
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    • bagican
    • March 28

43. Unable to detect SSD drive on unraid webui

    By LightSeeker, March 10
    • 6 replies
    • 412 views
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    • JorgeB
    • March 28

44. SMART 0xB5 (ID 181) Every Unraid Reboot Increases by 22 (filesystem) and 18 (parity)

    By rook, March 10
    • 6 replies
    • 565 views
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    • rook
    • March 25

45. Parity drive reports "disk has read errors"

    By [email protected], March 23
    • 1 reply
    • 360 views
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    • JorgeB
    • March 23

46. Logistics to move from XFS array to ZFS pool

    By Ademar, March 22
    • 0 replies
    • 350 views
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    • Ademar
    • March 22

47. 8 port Sata card for PCIe x4 slot (SOLVED)

    By Gullburr003, March 4
    • 6 replies
    • 707 views
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    • Gullburr003
    • March 22

48. Cold startup issues with QNAP TL-D800S, which uses ASM1164

    By eehobbyist, March 19
    • 4 replies
    • 474 views
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    • eehobbyist
    • March 22

49. H200 degraded link in a Dell R515

    By bpalhares, May 13, 2022
    • 1 reply
    • 936 views
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    • SilasPMS
    • March 19

50. Parse temperature of HBA 9300-16I (LSI SAS3008 controller)

    By Hellomynameisleo, March 1
    • 4 replies
    • 706 views
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    • Hellomynameisleo
    • March 17