raid

I have an Areca 1280ML with 16 attached drives (4tb's right now). Its operating in RAID6 mode, with NTFS on top of them, but unfortunately the drives are starting to age and its time for me to swap them out for 8s. This would be the ideal time to change controllers and or filesystems. To...

Previous post: HERE So last year we had the opportunity to open our over stock of HGST Enterprise and WD drives for sale. I posted here and the reaction was great even though we had some small learning curves and growing pains. We've noticed a lot of our customers are in the server or...

I'm looking to upgrade my server a little bit and add on a DAS enclosure but I'm having some issues getting everything planned out before I buy stuff as I'm somewhat new to using RAID controllers and HBA cards. I'm planning on getting a rackmounted Rosewill case with hot swap bays to hold my...

At this price it's worth buying a handful, as long as the lengths (20", 24", 28", & 31") will work with your setup. I personally have 1M cables coiled up and velcro-ed together in one of my short depth cases, so these will work for at least that application. H/T @Rand__ for his post...

Hello, I have a 1u server chassis 813MTQ-441CB and the remote hands technician couldn't install the parts: MEGARAID SAS 9271-4I LSI00297 / LSICVM01 (LSI MegaRAID CacheVault Accessory Kit) we used a riser card for the RAID card but according to the documentation we need a remote mount board for...

Hi all, I'm considering setting up a Proxmox server, but I'm lost in the sea of possibilities ;) Maybe someone here has set up a similar system and could offer some advice... What I'm looking to build is primarily a file server, with some containers or VMs (internal webservers, databases with...

Hi all, I cleared this with the admin. Our business has been in the data storage/controller/RAID industry for over 20 years. Our main products are controller cards and Thunderbolt 3/Type C RAID enclosures. We've built a good reputation with a lot of people and have a lot of ongoing projects...

Hello, Introducing myself and stating that I work for a data storage/management company right off the bat. I work fr a company called Tekram/CineRAID. I just started a new position so if I want to survive I pretty much have to learn. I'm on this forum to understand our market and where the...

I'm completing out my new Ryzen 2 build, and will be picking up 2x 8TB drive drives sometime this week. As my storage strategy will be shifting to local/DAS storage to FreeNAS sometime soon, I'm considering mirroring my local bulk storage drives. It will be mirrored only. Does anyone have...

Hi, i have two Western Digital RED 8TB (WD80EFZX). I need to buy other two disk and build a software RAID5 with the others. Now, the WD80EFZX serie have been replaced by WD80EFAX (Western Digital RED 8TB). I use a LSI-92118i in ITmode and I will setup the raid using mdadm. Do I have problem if...

so i got myself a new 2TB s840 STEC SAS SSD, Z16IZF2E-2TBUCZ to use as vm-datastore for multiple esxi hosts. The Storage-Server is an AllinOne ESXi host, whose Specs are.... Mainboard: X9SRL-F CPU: Xeon E5-1620v2 RAM: 96GB Chassis: SM836 Controller...

Hello, I just got my SA120, and finished my VM host build for the most part. I'm missing some Intel DC SSDs (going for 3710, and 3700, but I want to find out if 3610s are OK for VM storage, I will explain in another thread most likely) and the HBAs and RAID card. My SA120 comes with two PSUs...

Anyone have any experience with these? I was thinking of making it my new GOLD / OS storage pool for my VM's. rSSD7101 Series - HighPoint Global Website https://www.amazon.com/HighPoint-rSSD7101B-4TB-Drive-Black/dp/B077W9D49T?th=1

I am building a new home server in SuperMicro SC846 with ESXi for virtualization. The initial plan is to spin up the following virtual machines: - Windows 2012 Plex Server with DVR - BlueIris NVR - PiHole - Ubuntu VM for torrent client - UniFi controller - Reverse Proxy - 1-2 rotating...

Hi I have a Z820 PC. I have purchased a 12Gb/s 9361-8i 2Gb LSI Megaraid Card with Cachevault . Ok so the dilemma ! Both the ST4000NM0035 sata or ST4000NM0025 SAS have max sequential of approx 210MB/s. The ST4000NM0035 sata is 6Gb/s The ST4000NM0025 SAS is 12Gb/s I am of the belief that...

Hallo everybody, I again have a few questions about the usage (or building) of a NAS Server. I want to create a private NAS with a huge amount of files (I think there are about 18 Terabyte of files I want to save) and my biggest fear is to lose them due to Bit Rot. So I Read that ZFS should be...

Hello, I'm cleaning again and have 9x4TB Seagate and 2x4TB Hitachi cool-spin drives. (no warranty) As a bonus I'm throwing in an Areca raid card! (I've got many more Areca/LSI cards if interested) Get 44TB for super cheap!!! 11x 4TB +ARECA $600 + shipping (heavy box!!!) As always, I'll...

Hello, I'm currently selling off Areca cards I'm no longer using. All cards come shipped with BBU and I will include a gift as always. Buy them all and I'll include 2x 8TB drives! PM with any questions. 1x ARC-1882IX-12 $SOLD to StevenDTX 3x ARC-1880IX-16 $399/each 1x ARC-1880IX-12 - $299 1x...

What is the maximum size of SATA disk that will be recognised by a Dell XX2X2 RAID card for the C6100 blade server? I gather this is a version of an LSI MegaRAID controller. I'm putting a system together based on second hand Dell C6100 servers running a mix of VMware and Xenserver (on...

Hello, I have 4x4TB and 4x3TB drives from my NAS that I'm upgrading (28TB total). I've moved to all 8TB drives and will be selling some leftover soon as well. Seagate ST4000DM000 4TB 4x4TB (16TB) (no warranty) $SOLD Seagate ST3000DM001 3TB 4x3TB (12TB) (no warranty) $250 Buy the...