HEY ... iam ruinning exactly this controller - its working with every drive and delivers a huge performance. you got my full recommendation. iam so glad to see someone is googelign the 930-8i :)
someone myabe understand this ??
have done a comlete foreground init nearly 24h with new 18tb server drives - no errors ... and after 30mins degraded
created a ntfs partition tried to do some benches on the array and one drive was doing like this: qieeeekkk = like a headparking...
cable...
Actually you have to pay for a cheap internal 3,5" 12TB HDD 230€, for a 12TB USB 3.0 drive you pay about 170€ :-)
I bought 8x 12TB WD MyBook USB 3.0 drives and used it on a LSI 9460 controller.
I am not interested in more functions of the drives, reliability or better features. my interests...
a few days ago i created arrays with a couple of 8x 10tb drives and some days after with 18tb hard drives and it always takes about 12-14 hours.
now i have removed 8x wd hard drives from external housings (cheaper and fail-safe - irrespective in radi 6 config) and now i need three days for the...
yeah thank you interessting also for me, but iam really wondering why atto has so good results when the array was still under init ?? normally it should be slower than the other 2 results ....
I found no real world test about this raid controller, this was the reason i ordered one and compared it to a broadcom 9460 controller in the same systems with same drives
( thread: Benchmark Results Broadcom MegaRaid 9460 8x18TB HDDs Win10 Raid6 Lenovo Raid 930-8i Avago | [H]ard|Forum )
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Hi maybe interessting for somebody
Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 930-8i 2GB Flash PCIe 12Gb Adapter
Let me know if there is something i can also try to test this empty Array.
Mainboard Gigabyte Aorus X370
Win10 Enterprise
NTFS formated with 512B Sektor Size
pic 1 showing the Array on 2% build with...
I dont know the problem but maybe you got some ideas for me.
Freshly installed Windows Enterprise, ReFs, 1MB Stripe Size, tried different controller drivers.
Maybe the Array is too full ??
External usb 3.0 drive benches nice on the same system - but it needs several hours to transfair some GB...