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Just an update, turns out the spare drive on the RAID did actually die, put the new one in, and it now shows up as a dedicated spare drive. Just as I fix this problem another pops up, my CPU cooler pump died, so it has to go back under warranty. Pulled out my old computer and now remembered why...

That's the issue, I think that the card used to see the drive and listed it as spare but it doesn't now, anyway, I have tracked down an identical drive and ordered it, probably take about X'Mas to arrive but will add to the RAID card and see if it notices the added drive. If it does it probably...

I realise that about the spare, but I vaguely remember it showing as a spare drive (when I first set up the RAID5) in the list and my total capacity was about 20-23TB out of a potential 30TB. the thing that I am not sure about, is that it should show up an offline drive or faulty and there is...

I have a bit of a strange situation, I have a LSI 9362-8i with 5 x Seagate 6TB Enterprise 3.5" HDD V4 SED 7.2K RPM SAS drives, when I first installed it, I set it up as a 4 drive RAID 5 with 1 drive as a spare, apparently the 5th drive is not showing up anymore, it's been a while however since...

Hi Philip, strangely enough one of the things I had to do today got cancelled so I managed to rebuild my old PC and found out that the version of firmware on my P822 is V8.32, but as I suspected, the firmware package that I used to update it to that version is not on that desktop's drives and...

Hi Philip, that P822 also ran hot, I ended up putting a fan on top of the PSU to blow air directly on to it to cool it down. Incidentally the new 9362-8I also runs hot. It had reached way past 85C so so I reseated the heat sink, replaced the thermal compound and screwed a small fan directly to...

Hi, just checked and it is not there, the old computer is in bits so unfortunately I can't boot it up to check what version it is. I will be running it the next couple of weeks as I have to scrub the drives to sell off the bits and pieces so if I do find the version number, I will send you a...

Hi Philip, can't tell you exactly as it was quite a while ago (2019) and I recently bought a new PC including 5 x 6TB drives drives and 9362-8I RAID card. Having said that I will have a look to see if I kept a copy of the firmware on my current drives.

Unfortunately I have had to give up on running a type 1 hypervisor, it appears that my new system has too many incompatible hardware bits for them to install properly. I tried a couple of different types and then gave up. So I ended up installing Server 2022 and I have installed VMware Pro...

Thanks for all the replies, this new box is way cooler than my last one, so heat isn't much of an issue, I was just curious as to why they set up the top radiator fans in the way they did, I just added another 4 x 140m fans to this case so a total of 7 pulling air in and 1 out, so the case...

Yep, me too. I also just get really annoyed when the manufacturers make really powerful hardware and only provide drivers for WIN 10 and 11 plus a couple of others but none for Server 20xx, at least the included wifi 6 connection is working under Server 2019 otherwise I would not even be able...

What's the general consensus for another Type 1 hypervisor that will run 1 or 2 VM's and not require a technical knowledge of Linux and so forth, and free would be good! I am thinking of a Win 11 and a Server 2019 or 2022 VM. (not at the same time.) Thanks.

Need some opinions, the time had come to finally buy a computer as my old one was 11 years old. So I went to the local IT shop and ordered one to my specs, now that I have had some time to play around with it, I am questioning the direction of the air flow through the top mounted AIO radiator...

Hi everyone, Been doing a heap of reading and have come up none the wiser so thought that I would ask the collective members for your opinions so here is a bit of the background. I have an ageing ASUS P9X79-E WS computer with a HP H241 RAID card to run my LTO-5 External Tape drive with a...

I am just wandering if the fact that I setup up that drive as a single drive RAID O was the reason it failed or just a faulty hard SSD.

Hi everyone, just after some input: I have a spare 9267-8i card with 512MB cache, I connected it to a 2 year old 512GB Samsung Evo 560 SSD and used the Avago MegaRAID software wizard to create a single RAID O drive with no redundancy. I primarily wanted to used that card just to use the 512mb...

I bought an external LTO-5 external tape drive for $200 last year, and HP's policy is you have you have a service contract before they will let you download the latest Firmware which would most likely cost more that I paid for the drive itself. Tandberg, Quantum, IBM allow you to download that...

Hi , just wondering if anyone knows anything about IBM XIV 4TB SAS drives, are they a standard SAS drive that will work on any Generic SAS controllers, or do they require dedicate IBM controllers/harware and also specific software/firmware to initialize and format them. Thanks. Cheers.

Success at last, after many attempts I managed to finally get the correct firmware from the HP site for the P822 card and it upgraded, and also now works in my system, it managed to initialize a pair of SATA drives and also a set of 5 x 2GB SAS drives which are now set as a RAID 5 with a spare...

Just an update, I installed the card and Server 2016 recognized it as well as the BIOS when the system booted up. I could not get into it from the BIOS though. I ran the HP software and it found the 6 x SAS HGST 2GB Hard drives connected to it but from then it developed problems, it worked...