Recent content by Xamayon

It sounds like you have found a workaround, but another consideration is related to power. I have a norco case which was pre-wired with one long 4 pin 'molex' extension splitter providing power from the bottom backplane to the top. If I added more than a foot or so of additional...

Almost certainly not relevant to your situation, but if you ever need to recover data off of a drive with hundreds of millions to billions of tiny files; the only software I've come across which can do it is R-Studio Data Recovery. They have a horrible horrible licensing model, and their...

Assuming good quality HDDs and SSDs, they both work just fine in RAID. TRIM is an issue with Hardware RAID controllers which does reduce performance and longevity, as the crap data which has been deleted will be assumed to still exist, and will be moved instead of simply overwritten. The...

First off, ensure you have the latest firmware. There have been firmware bugs which cause the controller to improperly report battery status. (Known issues are fixed now) 1: Mine are reading slightly under 4 volts. 2: Not sure, but as an example, a battery relearn cycle takes ~2 hours and...

Retail packaging on Amazon was the same price as OEM on NewEgg, so I went with Amazon. No quantity limit sealed the deal. Even with 12 going all out they are very quiet and are running reasonably cool. Benchmarks done with a single newly formatted 4TB disk in JBOD mode on the 9271-8iCC...

Since you are running raid 6, your array does have some bit rot resistance. As long as you run a consistency check frequently, have it correct any errors found, and don't run for long periods with a failed disk, your data is fairly safe. ZFS does have many benefits, and protects data from...

Just got 12 of the 4TB ones, none DOA, pleasant surprise... Two of them didn't start up on the initial hot-plug, but re-seating fixed that. Will have to watch those two. All were made in Thailand in December 2013 and have same firmware. Plan is to have 9 in a raid 6 array, two in raid 1...

Slightly old thread, but it sounds like the drives may be switching to PIO mode which has the effect of interrupting the processor for every I/O. I suggest verifying that the controller channel your disk is connected to is in DMA mode. DMA mode fails back to PIO when 'too many' errors occur...