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    Can't find 4-port SATA PCIe card!

    IT firmware turns the RAID card into a vanilla SATA Host Bus Adapter, so the drives are presented natively to the rest of the system, just like they are with a regular SATA controller. The benefit is that the RAID cards generally have much higher performance SATA/SAS controllers designed to deal...
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    Samsung 256GB 830 not recognized by Windows 7 Installer

    Upgrade the BIOS. Also, you can use UNetBootIn to "burn" gparted to a thumb drive and boot from that.
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    Can't find 4-port SATA PCIe card!

    http://www.overclock.net/t/359025/perc-5-i-raid-card-tips-and-benchmarks Just flash the PERC you already have with the IT firmware (instructions in the link above) and be done with it. One quick flash and you'll be getting much much better performance than with anything else in that price...
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    RAID Degraded...what now?

    Yep, nothing looks out of range. I'm going to go with the drive stopped responding while recovering an error. Update the drivers and BIOS, new firmware on the SSD, and wipe the drives and rebuild the array. If it were me, I'd RMA the drive if it's still in warranty because why not. Might even...
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    RAID Degraded...what now?

    Just saw the bit about locking up when idle - I assume you have your system partition and Windows installed on the c300? If so, idle lockups are something I have seen a lot with SSD's (unfortunately), but a firmware update or reflash usually fixes that. I'd say downloading the latest firmware...
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    RAID Degraded...what now?

    Yeah, crystaldisk should be fine - it gives all the raw SMART data IIRC. It is always a possibility that the drivers are causing the problem, but if you haven't updated the drivers recently and the problem just appeared, then I would guess that it isn't the drivers. But, if the SMART data says...
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    RAID Degraded...what now?

    Hot Swap is not the issue. I don't think this is a Mobo problem, but rather a HDD problem. Without TLER, drives will drop when they try to recover a bad sector and stop responding. Personally, I never use built-in RAID as I have nothing but problems with them. I'd say either use software RAID in...
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    Build Advice: Low Power ZFS File Server (Or Virtualised All-in-one server)

    I agree with carpenike that virtualizing a router is more trouble than it's worth. I would look at running pfSense on one of the little all-in-one alix boxes. You don't need much power for a router with sub-gigabit internet speeds. Plus, with pfSense, you can easily deploy Snort IPS for extra...
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    Can't find 4-port SATA PCIe card!

    Trackr - That card you found on eBay is total junk - PCI-e v1.0 is slow and not enough bandwidth for even one drive. If you don't want to flash one of the PERC's you have, I would recommend you get one of these and put it in a x16 slot (if you only have x16 and x1 PCI-e slots): HighPoint Rocket...
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    Can't find 4-port SATA PCIe card!

    If you have the PERC 5i (hardware RAID) or the Dell SAS 5/ir (SAS HBA)? In either case, all you need to do is flash it with the correct version of the LSI IT firmware (Initiator Target, IIRC). The IT firmware makes the card present itself as just a Host Bus Adapter, so that the HDD/SSD's are...
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    Can't find 4-port SATA PCIe card!

    There are indeed plenty of 4-port SATA PCIe Cards, however, they're not the fastest things in the world... What will you be using the controller for? If using it for SATA III based SSD's, I would not get anything less than PCIe x4 (it'll work fine in one of your x16 slots), else you will not...
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    Samsung 256GB 830 not recognized by Windows 7 Installer

    Hrmmmm, can you try updating the BIOS then, and make sure the SATA ports are set to AHCI mode then? It shouldn't be a problem, but I've found laptops to be picky like that. If you don't have a desktop to use, do you have a working laptop with eSATA? Or, perhaps try formatting it with a live cd...
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    Build Advice: Low Power ZFS File Server (Or Virtualised All-in-one server)

    With respect to the RAID card, if someone hasn't mentioned it (and assuming you want more drives than your mobo has ports for and best performance), make sure you get a card that is a pure HBA (host Bus Adapter) or at least can be flashed with IT firmware (initiator target IIRC). LSI based...
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    Samsung 256GB 830 not recognized by Windows 7 Installer

    If I may chip in, I had the same experience with both a Samsung 830 and a Vertex 4. In both instances, I was able to get it to recognize the drives by adding them to a functional computer, upgrading or reflashing the firmware, then updating the BIOS in the target computers (both laptops in this...
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    RAID Degraded...what now?

    Assuming that these are consumer-grades HDD's (without TLER), it could be that one of the drives tried to recover a bad sector and stopped responding, causing the RAID controller to drop the drive from the array. Can you post the SMART data for both of the drives (not just the test results, but...
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