Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is a computer bus used to move data to and from computer storage devices such as hard drives and tape drives. SAS depends on a point-to-point serial protocol that replaces the parallel SCSI bus technology that first appeared in the mid 1980s in data centers and workstations, and it uses the standard SCSI command set.
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Why is my drive so full on my Windows 2008 Server
My server is Windows 2008 R2 Standard Server.
I have a secondary SAS drive where all my website files are with the following properties:
NTFS File System
Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties IS…
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Speeding up SAS data rate from 12Gbps
I'm curious about SAS data transfer speed.
Maximum is 12Gbps in the whole bus (not per drive) as far as I understand, but I have a scenario where I would like to have a faster data rate (hopefully around 40 to 80 gbps), stored into RAID-10 (thinking…
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What will I need to create a web server out of an R710?
I recently got hold of an R710 (DELL PowerEdge) & want to use it to host multiple sites.
I did not come with any HDD’s but I was told I need one with Windows Server.
I currently host my sites on a Linux VPS due to SSH ease, is it possible to just…
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New to servers, just recieved an intransa va expandr
Intransa VA-EXPANDR 12 2 TB Disk array question.
I received this 12 disk array along with a dell poweredge 2850. I would like to set up a RAID but i'm having trouble understanding how to hook up to the 12 disk array. It has an output port on the…
John
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Connecting a SAS server drive with SATA USB cable + Converter
I'd like to connect a SAS drive (ST3600057SS) to my computer via a USB SATA cable combined with a SAS to SATA converter.
This doesn't work and I would like to know why and if there's any way around it.
Alex
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3.5" SAS drives in server with 2.5" bays
We recently acquired a very cheap 2nd-hand server (HP ProLiant DL380 G7).
We have a number of 3.5" SAS drives, however the server only has mount points for 2.5" bays.
We would still like to leverage them, in the most cost effective way of getting…
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What is a Fibre Channel disk?
Our NetAPP SAN uses something called "Fibre Channel" disks.
What are Fibre Channel disks, and does this mean that I can't replace them with a NetApp SATA or SAS disk?
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