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Install the MegaRaid Storage manager from LSI or now Broadcom, you can manage your array from there. Hard drive sentinel should also see each drive and give you info, not sure if there is a trial version.

For anyone who might stumble upon this thread I'll post an update as to what happened. Bad drive did lock up the controller, pulled the drive and all was fine, for a little while. About a month ago error log started showing errors related to the 3ware card. Then the server started crashing...

They have a 1 year warranty and come wrapped in bubble wrap. I have had 1 die on me with 16000 hours on it, and the replacement was the wrong drive (sent a SATA 2 drive) so I had to wait for another replacement but it tested fine and is now a member of a Raid 6. The process of getting a new...

News is not good. Moved the "dead" drive to slot 11, performed a full format successfully. Then ran a quick test on the drive, all passed. So I got a little bolder and ran a surface scan on the drive, failed almost immediately with a sector error and poof, the raid controller is no longer...

Not out of the woods yet but looks like the sas1 backplane was the issue. I do have 1 bad drive and the new drive was the wrong drive... a SATA 2 drive and should be SATA 3, so need to swap it out. Multiple reboots without issue as well as no backplane failure so far, the real test will be...

The only thing I would worry about would be making sure that highpoint card is actively cooled. They tend to overheat and start dropping drives and ports.

Ahh, good news it just screws right in. All I had to do is come up with 3 more long screws. Initializing my RAID 6 now and should have some tests tomorrow hoping my issues are resolved.

Yes, the one I bought has the bracket, just not sure how it fits in my SC826E1-R800LPB.

Could be a nightmare to mount... SAS SAS2

Yeah, hard lesson to learn after the fact, thought I had done all my research before purchase... Already filed a return/inaccurate description, planning to get my $75 overnight shipping back. Still no word from the seller, and I'm sure he will be hearing about it, he sold 4 others. How does...

Perfect, thanks a lot. Nice knowing I'm not crazy! That's nice they tell you how they are wired too.

Just like the title, looking for a info or a pic of the product ID of any sas2 supermicro backplane from your controller, I just want to make sure I am not crazy. All of mine show SASX28, just want to make sure the SAS2 show SAS2X28.

Ready to throw this build in the trash and start over... Overnighted a sas2 backplane from fleabay and got this crap.

I wish I knew exactly. Just kind of a killer to be loading CentOS with an i7-6700K, 3 titans and an Intel 750 as a cache drive. I hear the cards will be used for crunching numbers, client was a bank. The other drives are 6TB WD blacks.

Have you installed the Intel chipset drivers? I have seen very similar issues without the latest intel inf installed.

Well I have a sas2 on the way to see if that alleviates the problems, hoping so. Nice that Avago doesn't even mention the sasx28 expander chip on their website anymore, I guess it's a sign.

So I had an order to build this system for a client and all was going well and then I had to load the OS... CentOS.

Unfortunately as of now they are starting at $120 shipped or so. Also spent a few hours looking up Sas1 vs sas2 and the only info I found (which had no resolution) was missing drives. Generally people are just saying various issues and go sas2.

So there's a chance that it could still all be blamed on the 3Gb backplane? Ugh.

I have been running the 4TB drives for some time now. Most of them look like WD SE and RE drives. I have 4 with 15670 hours no issues with the drives so far, I have 8 in total now. I get them off ebay for a little savings from GOHDD/APETHOUSE whichever is cheaper. I have seen 1 fail (DOA)...

I spent quite some time researching but didn't come across too many issues checking compatibility docs but I'm really banging my head into a wall here. This could be long, I would appreciate any comments/suggestions afterwards, on with the debacle. Bought a Supermicro 826E1-R800UB with the...