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I bought 8 Hitachi HUH728080AL5200 (SAS 12GB 8TB) drives a while ago to upgrade a Zdev in one of my TrueNas pools. These are 512e drives that were sitting someplace since 2016 when they were made and were brand new with zero hours when I got them. I did the upgrade by replacing one drive at a...

Compared to some problems listed this might be simple (or not). I have an HP Z420 MB that I use for a backup server. It started life in a Z420 case so everything was fine. After about 5 years I needed more drives and got a PC case that I could load 8 dives in using a 3 into 5 and 2 into 3...

I have a HP Z420 motherboard in a different chassis that I use for a backup "server" running TrueNas Core 12, About a week ago I started having connection problems but I got done what I needed and didn't look into it. The next time was far worse and finally I couldn't connect at all. The...

I just ordered 8 HGST He8 Ultrastar 8TB HUH728080AL5200 (I listed it in the great deals section if you want some) and I plan to reformat these to match the 4200 series drives I have. Sg_format has a lot of options but so far I haven't seen any of them used for a straight block size change...

Pretty sure this is at least a good deal on the edge of greatness. Just bought 8 an hour ago w/free shipping. HGST He8 Ultrastar 8TB HUH728080AL5200

As above, would like it from east of the Mississippi if possible just to cut the shipping costs. Has to have all trays, PS, fans. Motherboard, CPU and memory not absolutely needed but if you have a complete ready to go box I'll entertain it depending on price. It doesn't have to look perfect, it...

I've never seen or heard of this before but it happened to me today. I had some Seagate 3TB (St3000dm001) laying around that I used for an extra backup before I reconfigured one of my pools. To do this I pulled out a pool that I wasn't going to use and replaced it with these 6 Seagates. After...

Starting to look for a new motherboard for my backup machine. Here is what I need: 2, preferably 3 x16 slots that don't go below x8 electronically. 5 or 6 Sata 3 ports on board, an eSata port would be nice but not a deal breaker No larger than EATX Single CPU is fine Able to handle 32 or...

I need six of them total. Has to be the exact model listed in the title and has to pass all SMART tests with no warnings. People shucked these out of external cases left and right over the past few years so if you have some with reasonable power cycles and hours on them and are itchin' to...

I have a SuperMicro 846TQ being fed by 3 Dell Perc H310 HBAs. Can I use 8 SAS drives from one of the H310's and have the rest Sata drives? Does the controller or backplane even care if SAS and Sata are mixed?

Might be too good to be true.

I'm building the above system. The MB, HBAs, everything except the power supplies came out of my Istar chassis where it worked just fine. Installed it into the 846TQ with the standard 900W redundant power supply, bought the approved wire adapter to hook up the header to non-supermicro...

Since the TQ backplane has separate inputs for each drive would it be possible to mix 8 sata drives off of one HBA and 8 sas drives off of another HBA (Dell Perc H310's in this case) ? Does the backplane know the difference in that scenario or does it just supply power and so doesn't care?

I got my first 2U chassis and while I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it exactly I am sure I'm going to do something with it. To that end I need to keep the CPU cool (E5-2670). Is the preferred choice a large flat heatsink like this Dynatron R30 or a more upright unit like a Dynatron R5...

Yet another ebay deal Supermicro 847A-R1400UB 36x Bay Chassis The shipping was way too high when I asked about this, turned out to be a the ebay auto-ship price which is always far too much. Now it is more inline with most others. I make no claim as it it's compatibility or of the sellers...