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What is this thing? I bought this cable for these two U.2 drives I can connect the 2 big black things to the U.2 drives the white one looks familiar (Sata) but this other one at the forefront (picture above) what is it meant for? Is one Sata (white) enough to power the two U.2? what...

It's happening again, right before placing orders for U.2 drives, Samsung BM1743 61TB shows up promising 61TB with PCIe 5, the perfect candidate for the very few PCIe 5 MCIO slots on all my Motherboards (only have 3 mcio on each MB). Bit by bit, slowly wasting my life, I realised it's most...

This is one question I wish I never had to ask, but due to product availability, I might end up buying different NVMe drives with a similar storage capacity for the RAID 0. Would it work? What could go wrong if I combine in a RAID 0?: Western Digital Ultrastar DC SN655 → U.3 PCIe 4 TLC Solidigm...

SOLD I originally bought 19 of these, but only needed 11, so if anyone wants to buy the last 8 off of me I'm putting them up for sale here. Sale is through paypal invoice unless you are local to MN (55330) and want to do cash with discount. SMART data and pictures below. I have low level...

I bought two of these servers for a couple of nas builds. But for the life of me I can only get bays 0-3 and B0 working. Bay 4-7 and B1 seem not to be there. Do I need to set my bios differently or buy a hardware key of some sort? I have heard a little bit about something called rksata8 and...

Storage prices are starting to go down, so i am working on retiring some spinning disks with newer models. I though it be fun to see what others have on their drives. So post away. MY WD shucked 8TB drive just hit 2023 day lol. It will end up in cold storage unit for long term backups etc.

Right now I’m trying to erase 2 SAS drives but I came to the problem that I can’t just use a adaptor from SATA to SAS and plug it into my pc. So now I’m trying to find a SAS controller so I can plug it in to my pc and erase them. I’m new to server so I don’t know what type of controller I need...

** Update - 7 have sold. I now have 3 left. I have x10 WD Red 3TB 3.5" drives that have been used in Unraid and/or Drobo NAS setups in a homelab environment. I have included all the SMART reports in this post with the serial numbers. Each drive will ship in a protective case (see image), so...