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I've recently acquired 14 of used Toshiba PX04SVB320 SSDs off eBay. For some strange reason, every time I access their SMART values using smartctl, their "Non-medium error count" values increment by 1. This is for all of them without an exception. First I've installed them in a Dell R620...

Hello, Is there a way to use 0YW3J6 (Broadcom/LSI 9440-8i) RAID card in R720 server and have NVMe drives in RAID? Maybe with a bypass backplane like this: 693W6 and with SFF-8087 to SFF-8643 custom cables? Thanks.

Hello, I've provisioned a few servers with a bunch of Intel S3610's and I'm a bit concerned about the "Raw Read Error Rate" values. The tools shows all drives as healthy and there are no other errors as shown as full SMART data pasted below for one drive. Does these values mean anything...

I've found some inexpensive never used 1.8" S3610's on eBay. I was wondering if any of you have used them with a 1.8" mSATA to 2.5" SATA adapter and succeeded. I'm thinking of using 1.8" 16pin Micro SATA MSATA SSD to 2.5" SATA Card Converter Adapter HDD Case | eBay and then installing it in a...

Nimbus Data 800GB SSD SAS 2.5" Enterprise Flash Hard Drive Server /Storage Array I've been eyeing these for some time now. I was wondering if any of you guys are using these. If so, what are they? Are they manufactured by Nimbus or somebody else? Any SMART values? Benchmarks?

I have a Supermicro SMC2008 on a system and I've tried to update the firmware of it and after 1.5 hours of no progress and a ton of kernel error messages, it has failed. Now when I boot all I see is these messages: RAID Adapter Firmware Failed Validation!!! Adapter needs to be reflashed. Press...

Hello, I've just received a few Samsung SM863 drives and I've noticed something that looks strange to me. The drives have no LBA writes but a high amount of NAND Writes. I've pasted an output from magician below for one of them. Anyone care to explain? Samsung(R) SSD Magician DC Version 2.0...

Hello, I've been researching about a 1U build with E5-1650 CPU. I've decided on the following parts: Motherboard: X9SRI-F Chassis: SC113MTQ-563CB Then I got worried about if it will be good to cool this heat monster CPU. What would you suggest? I'm considering to go with a 2U...

Hello, I've searched a lot but could not find any benchmarks related to a setup that has 4 x Samsung 840 PRO's on RAID 5 array with a LSI 9265/9266/9271 card. Anyone wants to share their benchmarks? Thanks