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So I got my Supermicro AOC-S2308-8Le today and I still can't see my backplanes in ExpanderXTools. Does anyone have any ideas why I've never been able to use that software to see/flash them? I'm going to kick off another sync now and see if it's fixed my stability issues.

Yup, I flashed it to the latest and it's still flaky.

Nevermind, it's still flaky. Blah. Just tried to run another sync and all the drives disconnected again.

It finished successfully after changing the power management settings. Hopefully that fixes the flakiness for good now. Thanks guys.

Would you guys gets get an HP H220 (LSI SAS2308) or a Supermicro AOC-S3008-L8e (LSI SAS3008) for use with Supermicro SAS2-846EL1/826EL1 backplanes?

It's a redundant 1280W PSU so I think it's got plenty of juice there. I haven't heard anything but I am leaning towards this possibly be due to my HBA. It's a Supermicro SAS2LP-MV8 which I figured would be good with Supermicro backplanes but I guess maybe not. Yeah, I don't need any more...

I also noticed that the speed of the Snapraid sync was really jumping around while it was going. From a bit over 1GB/s to as low as 50MB/s. Is that normal or weird?

Failed again last night and temps were stable, so I think we can rule out heat. Here are the event viewer errors. Googling the reset error message I got this: Reset to device, DeviceRaidPort0 was issued [FIXED] - Driver Easy Now I've disabled those power management settings and I'm going to...

Yeah, I can check when it fails again to get the exact message from the Windows event log. But it basically just says that the drive has disconnected from the system. The Snapraid error says that it's a Windows error 1167 which according to System Error Codes (1000-1299) - Windows applications...

Temps seem fine so far. We'll see how this goes.

Hmm, I had turned the fans down for noise reasons and the temps are fine during regular usage. This is a good question though so I just cranked the fans up and started another sync. I'll let you know how it goes. I can hear it clearly from the main floor of our house now (server is in the...

After a lot of reading it seems like maybe this could be an HBA/backplane conflict and that an LSI 2308 based card might be a better choice? Should I grab an HP H220, they seem like a pretty good deal? Or go with a 3008 based one like the Supermicro 3008?

I'm struggling a bit getting my server running well and was hoping you could answer some questions that I have. Current setup: - Supermicro CSE-847 case - Supermicro SAS2-846EL1 backplane - Supermicro SAS2-826EL1 backplane - Supermicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 HBA - Intel i7-4770k CPU - ASRock Z97...