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Erasing Server RAID Hard disks (SAS and SATA) for decomissioning
We are in a process of decomissioning a handfull of Fujitsu Primergy Servers. Before of course, we want to make sure that the hard disks are completely wiped out. But it seems there is no way to ...
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Wiping hard drives in an IBM DS3512
I have an IBM DS3512 RAID storage device, which I'm planning to sell. How would I reliably wipe my data off of all the hard drives?
As far as I can tell, it abstracts away all direct access to the ...
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Steady red light on 2 HP SAS drives in RAID 1
I have a HP ProLiant web server with two HP 300GB SAS SFF 2.5 inch drives (Model: HP 507127-B21). Both drives have a solid red light, however there is no indication within the management software that ...
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Use of 2.5" Laptop Drives in a Server?
We're acquiring several 1U servers with (8) 2.5" drive slots. Although we can use either SATA or SAS, there is a large price variance as soon as you order 16 or 24 of these drives, so we are looking ...
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Why is my server's SAS drive 147 GB when most are 146 GB or does that matter?
I need to replace a failed drive in my Dell server's RAID 1 configuration.
I pulled the drive and it's a Hitachi Ultrastar 15000rpm / SAS 147 GB.
The supplier I usually order from only has SAS 15k ...
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Is it normal for a SAS drive to have a few bad blocks, or should I replace my drive ASAP?
I have a drive—part of a RAID 1 mirror—that has two bad blocks. Adaptec Storage Manger e-mailed me when it detected the blocks. It shows 4 medium errors for that drive, but state is still “optimal”.
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SAS Drives on VMWare ESXi Installable 4.0 u2 Too Slow?
We are running a Dell PowerEdge T710 with a PERC H200 RAID controller and two mirrored SAS drives.
We just patched to Update 2 because our SAS drives were extremely slow and it mentioned somewhere ...
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spontaneous hard disk password
I had an HP proliant server go down recently. All of the sudden the sas controller (e200i) would not see any of the physical disks. New disks were detected just fine. I thought it was odd that all ...
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External mini SAS to external mini SAS (x4 vs x8)?
I'm ordering an Enhance Tec E8 external harddrive enclosure with with a Mini SAS 8088 connector. I plan to use 8 drives in a RAID 5. The RAID Controller I'm looking at says it has 2 x4/x8 hybrid ports,...
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