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    Flash/Crossflash DELL H330 RAID Card to HBA330/12Gbps HBA IT Firmware

    Hi In case you are interested cooling those HBA330 cards (in a pc tower even at idle it can t be touched more than 5 secs so i guess it might be 45 -55 Celsius and in a rack machine like Dell R730 it is still hot but not so much. In both cases I am not comfortable with these temps even if...
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    Flash/Crossflash DELL H330 RAID Card to HBA330/12Gbps HBA IT Firmware

    In which environment are you trying to list teh disks? The picture you provided only shows the info specs of the adapter. Boot to a linux distro and type in cli lsblk and check if drives are avaliable there. Maybe what you see is the disks that can boot from and not all the disks that are...
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    Flash/Crossflash DELL H330 RAID Card to HBA330/12Gbps HBA IT Firmware

    It is really simple. In a Dell R730 with 16 hdd slots, the embedded h330 mini mono (I have already flashed it with the guide here) can drive only 8 of them (it would be possible to drive 16 hddswith the appropriate 16 slot backplane - which has an expander, but I dont have that backplane). I...
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    Flash/Crossflash DELL H330 RAID Card to HBA330/12Gbps HBA IT Firmware

    Hi I have an urgent situation here since I need this card to be done until tomorrow. My Issue (maybe, not sure) is the following: I have noticed in 15 pages here, many talking about the troubleshooting trying to flash the card but nothing about the afterwards part. The afterwards part could...
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    sas drives and write cache option

    ...true but the read speeds (or is it write) goes down by a significant margin
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    sas drives and write cache option

    Well mentioned. Didnt notice it at all. Anything I can do?
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    sas drives and write cache option

    Thank you for the reply but this raises more questions than answers. Key facts on that discussion were the following <<<Write cache is a changeable drive setting. WCE is commonly enabled when buying a HDD vendor branded drive, and disabled when buying a server vendor branded drive as they...
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    sas drives and write cache option

    Hello I ve being using in a production level some sas2 disks hitachi-wd Dell 2.5inch 10k 1.2Tb drives with zfs (no Zil or Slog extra devices) in a raid 10 level. In a random check to the drives I noticed that the feature of all the drives write cache was disabled. Used the command sdparm -g...