Questions tagged [sata]
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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Plextor SSDs don't work reliably in HP DL380p Gen8 servers
We recently purchased a few HP 380p G8 servers to add some VM capacity, and decided to add a pool of SSDs to our standard build, to create a "fast" RAID 1+0 array for some of our VMs that have higher ...
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Fujitsu D2616 Raid Card Lsi Mega Raid Enable Ports
I have a Fujitsu server with D2616 raid contorller, this has 2 mini SAS ports on it with one connecting into a backpane where i have 4 hdd plugged in. This works fine however wanted some SSD's in ...
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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 ...
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Finding SMART status of SATA disks in HP SmartArray
I'm trying to find SMART params of the disks in my array, it seems that simple way does not work:
% smartctl -d sat --all /dev/sg0 -H
smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.9.0-8-amd64] (local ...
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S-SATA Vs I-SATA (PCH, SCU)
My mother board contains SATA-3 ports however some are listed as S-SATA and I-SATA as shown in the manual:
I have plugged some harddrives in each of these ports and they both work fine. However I ...
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What does SATAu mean on Dells driver carriers?
I purchased an used Dell PowerEdge R630 online and had the option to get it preinstalled with some SATA drives, but I declined as I want to install my own (brand-new) SATA SSD drives. (I don't trust ...
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Dealing with an ATA error [closed]
my Xubuntu 16.04. produces a non-stop ATA error message. Here is the output of dmesg
[ 4547.943159] ata7: hard resetting link
[ 4548.657810] ata7: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 4548.657824]...
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How to reduce the SATA link speed of drive in CentOS?
How do I make CentOS run SATA drives at 3Gb/s at boot?
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I'm having an issue with a motherboard that claims to support 6Gb/s SATA transfer speeds, but when using 4 drives on it, in a ...
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RAID controller link speed with mixed drive types
What will be the negotiated speed if I mix 6 and 12gbps SATA and SAS drives in a single h/w RAID controller, but keep them in the separate raid groups? Let's take LSI (Dell PERC H730) as an example ...
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HDD SATA speed setting
I just noticed this info from smartctl
Does that mean I'm running inferior SATA II speed?
If yes, how do I enable SATA III speed?
smartctl 7.1 2019-12-30 r5022 [x86_64-linux-5.4.0-37-generic] (local ...
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ledctl: identify empty slots
Is there a way to get ledctl to identify empty drive sleds?
I can flash the light on an occupied slot by using ledctl locate=/dev/sdb (for example), but cannot figure out how to locate an/all empty ...
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How to use more than 3 hardrives with Supermicro X9DRT-HF board?
I got a 4 node supermicro 2U unit which has 12 how swapable caddies, 3 for each node.
The problem is that I want to connect at least 4 if not even 6 drives to a single node. The BIOS reports 3*2 ...
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Is the limitation of SATA attached drives on an LSI based SAS expander an ongoing issue?
In my research on developing a low-cost external drive bay for my server, I was presented with a critical issue in attaching commodity SATA drives through any SAS expander based on the LSI controller ...
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Is my server drive on SATA2 or SATA3 based on this output?
smartctl output:
# smartctl -a /dev/sda | grep SATA
SATA Version is: SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
dmesg output (empty):
# dmesg | grep SATA
hdparm output:
# hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep ...
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SAS or SATA for 3 TB drives?
We are looking to purchase new 3 TB enterprise-grade drives and can buy either SAS or SATA models.
AFAIK, SAS generally gives better performance than SATA, but searching for benchmarks I found ...
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Would using SAS disks instead of SATA disks make sense over NFS for a VMWare datastore?
We are deciding whether to use SATA or SAS aggregates on our Filer for our VMWare datastore. We will be using NFS to connect the VMWare hosts to storage.
Doesn't seem to make sense to use SAS disks ...
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What is a maximum useful length of a SATA/SAS cable?
The server in question is DELL PowerEDGE SC1435. I am thinking about buying a LSI 1068e based card with two internal SFF-8087 ports. I intend to use the machine with external multiple hard disk ...
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SAS / SATA max number of connected disks vs performance
I would like to understand following things:
When I have a motherboard with SATA 6Gb/s and 8 ports, does it mean that every single port is able to provide 6Gb/s speed to disk that is connected over ...
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New large HDD on Ubuntu server
I am running Ubuntu 18.04 on a server which at present only uses the system SSD for file storage. I have now connected a SATA HDD of 16TB which fdisk recognises at dev/sda as 14.6TiB. System disk ...
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Recover harddrive after abruptly power cut [closed]
Following is my partition table,
mercurial@providence:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 465.78 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Disk model: ST9500420AS
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 ...
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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'...
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Server Hot Swap Hard Drives
We have a HP Proliant DL380 G9 server. We have a separate data drive which consists of 4 x 1TB 7.2k 6Gb hot-swappable SAS drives RAID 5'd to provide a 3GB logical drive. We've noticed the performance ...
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HP ProLiant DL380 G4 SATA support? [closed]
I'm planning to get a second hand HP Proliant DL380 G4 and setup it as storage server, probably using NexentaStor and setup a ZFS system.
But now I wonder does DL380 G4 can be convert or support SATA ...
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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 ...
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Non-hotpluggable SATA III hard drives in Intel SR2625URBRPR backplane in conjunction with RAID controller
I'm messing around with server and RAID hardware for the first time, so correct me at any point if my understanding is wrong.
I'm wondering why the WD (and not the Seagate or Toshiba; see image below)...
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What is meant by outstanding IO request in a host controller (e.g. HBA/RAID card)
In context of a host controller (HBA/RAID card) which sends IO traffic to SAS/SATA drives which are part of logical volume - so in such setup, generally I hear a term "Outstanding commands". I did got ...
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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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How to disable redundant path warning for a d2600 with 12 HP SATA drives?
Have a HP p822 RAID controller with FirmWare 8.32 cabled to a HPE d2600 with 12 x 4TB SATA drives in RAID60. These are not dual-port SAS drives, but 4TB SATA drives so there is only one pathway to ...
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If I connect a SATA3 6Gbps SSD to a SAS2 6Gbps port using a breakout cable, will I get SATA3 speeds?
I have 2 SATA3 SSDs in my server, which are currently connected to SATA2 ports. If I wanted to get SATA3 speeds out of them instead, could I buy a SAS2 HBA and use an SFF-8087 to SATA breakout cable ...
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Can I move a single disk from one esxi to another esxi server?
I can't seem to find an answer on google...perhaps I am using the wrong query.....
I have an ESXi test system that is in production and is using a single SATA disk for the VM's datastore. I would ...
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What kind of SATA connector is this?
My Supermicro motherboard has a "vertical S-SATA connector". The manual simply says "A vertical S-SATA connector, offers four S-SATA 3.0 connections (S-SATA 0-3)". I took a picture of it and it ...
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How to expose raw SATA disks in KVM guest
I have a CentOS 7.3 64-bit host OS and KVM version (qemu-kvm-1.5.3-126.el7.x86_64) and need to run Fedora Core 13 (32-bit) as guest OS. I have recent hardware which has some SATA and IDE disks ...
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Integrated Raid Controller Dieds
I have an HP ProLiant ml110 G3 with an sata raid controller intrgrated in the motherboard. Few days ago the controller died. Can I use sata ports without the raid?
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Can a gen3 SATA harddrive be forced to always link at gen2 speed?
Is there a PC tool to program a gen3 SATA harddrive to avoid a link attempt at the gen3 speed (6Gb) and always start the link negotiation at the gen2 speed (3Gb)?
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HDD: performance differences between 7.2k SATA and 15k SAS
What is the rule of thumb in performance characteristics and differences between 7200rpm (SATA/SAS) and 15000rpm (SAS) hard disc drives of the same generation?
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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)?
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Do 1 TB Velociraptor SATA drives work smoothly in a Dell PowerEdge RAID setup? [closed]
We're looking at using velociraptor 10k SATA drives in a Dell Poweredge R720.
The late-2012 1 TB WD velociraptors seem like a great fit for our situation (need 10s of TBs of storage in a 2.5" format ...
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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 ...
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R610 PERC 6iR - Incompatible with SATA
I purchased a couple R610 servers which has been a constant source of frustration lately. I got a heck of a deal on them with a single 2.93 Ghz processor and 96GB RAM, so I cannibalized one and got a ...
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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 ...
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SATA drives in HP ProLiant server?
Does anyone know if I can install normal 2.5" SATA drives inside an HP DL360 G5 server? Right now it has 6 72GB SAS drives. I am looking for raw storage for my files SAS performance in not required.
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SATA disks instead of SAS - DELL 2950 [closed]
I have a DELL 2950 with a PERC5/i controller and a SAS backplane and my intention is to switch to SATA on the cheap. I don't even have drive trays.
This backplane has SAS ports. I just bought 2 ...
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Internal HDD keep being dropped
I own a server on which I run flexraid and since a couple of weeks, I get the issue that whenever the server is doing some heavy operations on the RAID, one or more harddrives get dropped.
In order ...
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HP D2700 enclosure and SSDs. Will any SSD work?
I've got an HP D2700 enclosure that I'm looking to shove some 2.5" SSD drives in. Looking at the prices of HP's SSD drives vs something like an Intel 710 and even something less 'enterprisey', there's ...
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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 ...
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Is it possible to check drives SMART attributes from a USB/eSATA enclosure?
I use USB external drives on a daily basis and I would like to be able to check on their integrity. I recently happened to discover I was unable to read SMART attributes from them.
I wonder if there ...
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KVM: pass-through SATA hot-swap drive?
I have a SATA hot-swap cage in my Linux box. Is it possible to pass-through the SATA disk which is injected in that cage to a KVM guest? I have multiple disks however the SATA port will be always the ...
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Can I reuse HP Proliant SCSI drives in a custom build?
I have an old HP Proliant DL385. Can I use the drives (36.4 GB - 10k, ULTRA320 SCSI) on a custom build, or is the interface a proprietary HP specific one? What support do I need from the motherboard? ...
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How do I get rid of this SATARaid screen on boot?
I have a server with a SuperMicro X8SIL-V motherboard. Here's the manual. Every time it boots, it spends about three minutes at this screen:
Sil 3124 SATARaid BIOS Version 6.3.18
Copyright (C) 1997-...
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P410i smart array controller SATA drive recommendations of known working models
Background:
my company needed some internal, reliable servers for internal data. (we normally use cloud).
Being a small company, we have scanty budget, but also flexibility.
We picked up a number ...