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Well i went and got myself 5 new harddrives but i need to remove one drive from "RAID-1" to be able to make a "RAID-2" because the 9271-8i only got 2 SFF-8087 on the card... just to backup the array (RAID-1) before adding the expander to the mix... is it possible???

Hay! I'm very new when it comes to raid so please forgive me if i ask stupid questions. I have a RAID6 setup and it's 5 3TB drives and there connected with two "SAS to 4 SATA" and a few days ago i got a new computer case a "XCase RM 424 Pro" and it got SAS backplates so i ordered a Intel...

The drives was are not on the HCL list its a consumer drive. its soon done with the migration. I honestly can't find the info if the updates are for this drive.. to upgrade the firmware i have to take that drive out of the array and upgrade it and then re-add it right?

I thought i had read it here :S It's being added right now.. will see in 35h. maybe i just got it all wrong but i thought that RAID systems wore really picky about firmware's and batches and stuff like that..

Hello! I'm really new to this with raid (both hardware and software) but i got a LSI 9271-8i (latest firmware and software) and everything has been great with the 4 drives i have have up and running for a while now but i now need to add a drive and the problem is that the new drive got a...

Förbannat coolt projekt. (Damn, cool project)

to do a speed test could i just change "Write policy: Write Through" & "Disk cache policy: Disabled" to "Write policy: Always Write Back" & "Disk cache policy: Enabled" I just got series on the array right now so no worries. I'm all about learning. :)

I can't get over 24 MB/s.... whats that about? Raid6 4x3TB SATA3 7200RPM.

would a BBU or a CacheVault (super capacitor and NAND Module) be a safety measure against a RAID crash? (yeah i know always have a backup..)

My disks don't have TLER but hopefully no other problem... :/

Seagate firmware page says that there is no update for my part model number. 1CH166 that's weird when there are drives that got CC24 and some that got CC43...

i got a Raid 6 up and running now but i only got 3 disk in it right now. and i just cleaned out the 4th one so I'm adding that one to the Raid 6 in just a few minutes. feels great to finally gotten around and gotten my self a Raid controller and a bunch of disks..

Honestly i don't have the money. So i will just hope it will go smooth. Its just movies and series..

I have changed my mind... it will be a RAID6.

Write policy: Always Write Back or Write policy: Write Through is the ones I'm mostly concerned about.. i have no clue what that one is about.. but also Read policy: Always Read Ahead like i said before i have no BBU or a CacheVault.

i have no BBU so as far as my understanding goes i cannot use Caching if i care at all about my data. i understand that.. so it is that big of a risk then... hm... no they are not on the HCL. well its mostly movies and series. I'm going back and forth on the Raid 5 vs. Raid 6.. How big...

i really want this up and running... onyone got time to say there say about: Initialization state: Fast Initialization Strip size: 256KB Read policy: Always Read Ahead Write policy: Write Through I/O policy: Direct IO Access policy: Read Write Disk cache policy: Disabled

Hello! I have changed my mind... it will be a RAID6. I'm now ready to initialize my first RAID6 and to do so i have a few questions. It will be a RAID6 array and i will use 3x 3TB drives and after the array is built i will transfer data from a 4th 3tb drive and then i will add that drive to...

good to hear. i have seen that ST3000DM001-1CH166 can have firmware CC24 or CC43

Hello again! I now got 4 of Seagate's ST3000DM001-1CH166 drives with CC24 firmware but i cant find a upgrade to CC43 so i just wanted to know if any of you guys/gals use ST3000DM001-1CH166 cc24 in a raid array with a LSI controller? to bad Seagate do not hand out a changelog.. would be...

gotten a new harddrive today. =) i kinda got one more while i was in the store... 4x 3tb Seagate ST3000DM001 in total now...

i just found out what the problem was... the drive i got for Christmas was a DOA when i tested it against the motherboard my POST told me that it could not even check the SMART status so i will be returning that one later today.

I was just generally pissed but Seagate and LSI got it this time. True i just wanted people to know that the firmware tool starts as a GUI tool and after i read everything and confirmed it showed a promt (changed my boot loader) for a few sec and then rebooted with a CLI tool for upgrading the...

Ive upgraded like 10-15 drives before so a firmware tool is nothing new to me. But this time it went wrong somewhere. i think its because True Crypt and that tool didn't work great together. my system drive was encrypted at the time so i them decrypted it and and the partition was lost so i used...

i have always been a fan of Seagate but now I'm just really sad... i ran there firmware upgrade tool and it changed my bootloader (on a intel ssd) and just crashed so I'm now trying to get some info back from my system drive but it seems its all lost. dos based firmware tool... Seagate what year...

well this is just freaking great... I'm totally new to all this concerning raid so that's why i did not check the "compatibility list" and what i gotten so far is 3 ST3000DM001 that is not on compatible for 9271 and a system crash deluxe with lost data. i freaking hate Seagate now for the...

Yeah i know. well... and then i tried the dos tool and it did not work so i booted windows in IDE mode and ran the windows firmware update tool and it restarted my computer and stopped at where windows normally starts but it just told me "Seagate" and just stood there so it destroyed my MBR so...

yeah i just figured something out... i tested with just connecting another drive to my 9271 and it booted and everything's seems OK.... so the problem is my 3 new Seagate ST3000DM001 3tb... there seems to be firmware updates to the drive but it seems impossible for me to install them.... getting...

What i will connect to the LSI 9271-8i is 3 Seagate 3tb drives to start with. none of the ones connected to the Intel onboard controller.

Well the SSD is connected to the motherboard on the onboard sata2 ports and my motherboard also got 2 sata3 ports but the SSD is just a old x25 sata2 intel drive. and the system boots fine if i do not connect the sata cables from the LSI controller. my motherboard info at gigabyte.com the...

firmware and driver and management software is updated to the newest one available.

the SSD is the OS drive its connected to the motherboard and i did not go into the firmware and create a array i will use the card just like a HBA for a few weeks until i get the money to get some new drives.

Problem solved. DOA Drive. Hay first timer here. i got my self a HW Raid controller a few days ago but the first "SFF8087 <-> 4sata" cable i got did not work but when i try with a new one i got today i get stuck at this screen . and if i wait a while it starts booting windows but it gets...