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would also swap for 2 16TB SAS drives that support 512b sectors

For sale 3 * 12TB WD HGST DC HC520 hard drives. Purchased in May 2021, working fine and pass all tests. Only selling as i need 512b drives to add to my Storage Pool and they are 4kn Advanced Format drives. Would ideally like to sell as a job lot £450 + delivery, but open to offers

Could it be the sector size? The existing volume has a sector size of 512b, but the 3 drives are 4kb drives.

thanks, but i have already tried that.

Hi all, I have windows server 2022 running storage spaces with an existing pool of 8 drives (some SAS some SATA, either 12TB or 16TB) But i am unable to add 3 drives to this pool. All three are HGST huh721212al4200 drives, i can create a new pool with the 3 drives fine but no add to existing...

morning, i never used the IPMI/BMC as a home user it was a non requirement for me as i had easy access to BIOS. I am sure there will be a way of resetting, Reset BMC Password | TrueNAS Community Chris

payment received for board/CPU/RAM i9 sold elsewhere

If you want them then fine, was just wanting to add a couple of fans to my server

The reason I went for this motherboard is the 10gig network ports

i have turned off CSM and fast boot ant the system has booted, will test further tomorrow. Chris

I also have an i9-9900k cup for sale. £250 delivered

Looking at £35 fully insured (5day service) (£50 3day service) (£170 1day service)

i have based the £500 asking price on how much i paid for the lot 2-3 years ago, and knocked a bit off so not looking to make a profit. Chris

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i have secure boot enabled (with TPM) the drives have a storage spaces array already on them from a previous build. I haver tried with just SAS drives, just sata (12TB spinners) and also sata ssd's result is the same. If i boot with no drives attached, then plug in after post then the system...