My New File Server ( need a little help )

[Irockzz]

So I picked up a server for 150$ I think it's a supermicro case and mobo with some intel cpus and an LSI 9590se 16 port card i thought that was a good deal however I wanted to upgrade it some so I put in a I7-950 i had with 24gb of ram and moved the raid card over








so I picked up my drives I am going to use 12* 3TB WD Nas drives





However I thought the raid card I had would work with these but it does not they show up as 736GB I even updated the card


so now i have to get a new raid card and this is where i could use some help it has to have 16 ports


this was the card I was looking at 9260-16i - Newegg.com

 

[lilfiend]

I had a similar issue with a supermicro server and 3tb hdd's. I used gparted to format them and then they showed up properly.

 

[Irockzz]

will they work even if its the raid card that see them as 736GB drives

 

[lilfiend]

it did for me, I've actually run into this twice, on the older supermicro server in bios it still said 700 something gb but on the other after I formatted the drives in gparted and the raid cards reported the drives correctly during post after that. Both situations though the drives were fully usable.

 

[iamwhoiamtoday]

Odds are high that the controller can't handle drives over 2TB in capacity.

You'd be better off picking up two of these bad boys: The LSI 9211-8i

New LSI Internal SAS SATA 9211-8i 6Gbps 8 Ports HBA PCI-E RAID Controller Card

Cheaper, and you can share the HDD's over two PCI-E buses instead of one, theoretically boosting performance.



EDIT:
I'm a derp. I keep thinking that everyone wants HBA's, not RAID cards. That's what I get for largely using software raid / ZFS / Storage Spaces.... move along. move along. >_<