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My new RAID 10 arrays are unstable and give me problems

I installed 2 temporary 80mm fans on a bracket above the card, and then enabled write caching. They are running at full speed and are connected directly to the PSU. The card's temperature is around 70C, although I can try to rearrange the fans to try to get even more airflow. I still get...
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- Post #42
- May 26, 2016
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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My new RAID 10 arrays are unstable and give me problems

I ordered 2 Noctua 80mm fans, which will be put side by side, cooling both the raid card and the GPU. I bought some narrow metal mending plates and machine screws, which I will be using to build a custom fan bracket with vibration dampening.
- mh321
- Post #40
- May 17, 2016
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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My new RAID 10 arrays are unstable and give me problems

It turns out I can't glue a fan directly onto the heatsink, due to another card sitting next to it. I will have to use a fan on a bracket.
- mh321
- Post #38
- May 16, 2016
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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My new RAID 10 arrays are unstable and give me problems

What type of glue did you use on yours, and in which orientation did you put the airflow?
- mh321
- Post #37
- May 16, 2016
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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My new RAID 10 arrays are unstable and give me problems

What is the least CFM I can get away with if I glue the fan on the heatsink? There's a similarly sized noctua fan, but with half the airflow.
- mh321
- Post #35
- May 15, 2016
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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My new RAID 10 arrays are unstable and give me problems

My 4U rackmount case uses x6 Noctua Redux fans, an Asus GTX780, and a Cooler Master Nepton 120xl liquid cpu cooler. My Seagate Barracudas will eventually be set up to spin down/sleep after an x amount of minutes. Will that star-tech.com fan be loud for my setup? Almost all of my components were...
- mh321
- Post #34
- May 15, 2016
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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My new RAID 10 arrays are unstable and give me problems

I will probably cool it with a 120mm fan mounted on a bracket next to the card.
- mh321
- Post #32
- May 14, 2016
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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My new RAID 10 arrays are unstable and give me problems

You might have possibly found the cause of my system's instability- heat. While searching the internet for a fan, the controller's temperature is at 86C right now. Adaptec Storage Manager still claims it as "normal". I'll buy a fan and see how it will run then. If I upgraded at the same time to...
- mh321
- Post #31
- May 14, 2016
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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My new RAID 10 arrays are unstable and give me problems

When I ran crystaldiskmark on the SSDs, the temp of the controller was 80C (normal). I got: Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1076.461 MB/s Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 321.784 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 141.144 MB/s [ 34459.0 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) ...
- mh321
- Post #29
- May 12, 2016
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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My new RAID 10 arrays are unstable and give me problems

Can I go with a 6gb/s card with DDR2 memory, or is it necessary to have a card with DDR3 memory when I use SSDs?
- mh321
- Post #25
- May 12, 2016
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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My new RAID 10 arrays are unstable and give me problems

What specs should I look for in a replacement card? What should I avoid in a replacement card? Any brands to avoid? Can I go for OEM Dell, HP, etc? Which cards have quicker startup times? I am looking to find a decent new/used card for under $200. Thanks
- mh321
- Post #24
- May 11, 2016
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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My new RAID 10 arrays are unstable and give me problems

The stripe size was 256 (the default). I don't think there was a cluster size setting in the raid card bios, but if it were, it would be the default. I will try using the drives in different configurations.
- mh321
- Post #22
- May 10, 2016
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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My new RAID 10 arrays are unstable and give me problems

The graphics card is in slot #1 Slot #2 is covered up by the GPU Slot #3 is unused The RAID controller is in slot #4. It is the only x16 slot available once one GPU is installed. I have the SCSI card in slot 5 I have a SIIG Texas Instruments firewire card in slot #6. The entire system was built...
- mh321
- Post #20
- May 9, 2016
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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My new RAID 10 arrays are unstable and give me problems

The only thing I found describing any kind of connections is the diagram on this page: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/990fx-motherboard-review-amd-fx,3464.html It also looks like the problem isn't tied to one SSD, any one of the SSDs can go into rebuild.
- mh321
- Post #15
- May 8, 2016
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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My new RAID 10 arrays are unstable and give me problems

Where do I find this information? I checked the Asus website, the BIOS, and the owner's manual, and I cannot find anything saying what is connected to what. The manual has a PCIE operating modes table: Single PCIe card: (slot1 x16 Recommended for single) (Slot2 x4) (Slot3 x16) (Slot4 x4) Dual...
- mh321
- Post #14
- May 8, 2016
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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My new RAID 10 arrays are unstable and give me problems

The motherboard has a AMD 990FX/SB950 chipset. The GPU is in PCIEx16 slot 1. The 5805 is in PCIEx16 slot 4. All hard drives are connected to this card. The 29320A is in PCI slot 5. The logs are very long, so I can't paste everything, but they show "Logical device is degraded", followed by a...
- mh321
- Post #11
- May 8, 2016
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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My new RAID 10 arrays are unstable and give me problems

So I took one of the backplanes out of the equation. I connected all 4 new SSDs directly to the raid controller, and I was able to get a degraded array after a few startup/shutdown cycles. Controller write-caching was enabled, and disks' write cache disabled in the controller BIOS. The seagate...
- mh321
- Post #7
- May 7, 2016
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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My new RAID 10 arrays are unstable and give me problems

What is the best way to test the controller and backplanes? I don't have a spare controller, and both backplanes are the same model.
- mh321
- Post #5
- Apr 30, 2016
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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My new RAID 10 arrays are unstable and give me problems

Yes, the computer is only for home use, and it was cheaper. I only intend to store media and other random non-critical things on it. If one disk fails, then the array is supposed to keep going. I have a tape drive for backups. Back when I had raid 0, all my drives were pre-owned, and they never...
- mh321
- Post #3
- Apr 30, 2016
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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My new RAID 10 arrays are unstable and give me problems

This is my first time setting up a RAID 10 on my 6 month old home computer. It has an Adaptec 5805 controller. I used to have 2 RAID 0 arrays on it, which were stable. I decided to upgrade to 4x Kingston V300 SSDs in RAID 10, and 4x Seagate ST1000DM003 in RAID 10. I have been having problems...
- mh321
- Thread
- Apr 29, 2016
- Replies: 43
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Questions about Pro Audio Amp as a Replacement for Broken Consumer Stereo

Hi, I recently had my consumer Sony av reciever break, and I'm looking at replacing it. I am looking into replacing it with pro audio gear, but I have many questions about this. My home audio system has been and will be used 80% for playing music, 10% for audio recording from my computer, and...
- mh321
- Thread
- Nov 19, 2013
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Audio Components
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SCSI cable question

ok, all I need to know is if both of the cables in my first post are fine, because I need to buy one of them very soon. So as long as I have proper termination, any HD68 cable is fine?
- mh321
- Post #8
- Jul 31, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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SCSI cable question

The tape drive says "SCSI ◊ LVD/SE" on the port. The HBA says "SCSI ◊ LVD" on the port. Will either of the 2 cables be fine then?
- mh321
- Post #6
- Jul 30, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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SCSI cable question

I already have the proper terminator. So both cables in the 2 links will work perfectly? Thanks
- mh321
- Post #3
- Jul 29, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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SCSI cable question

Hello, I am trying to connect a tape library (HP MSL 2024 AG115A) to my HBA card (Adaptec 29320A ultra320 scsi) on my server. At the incorrect advice of someone on another forum, I purchased HP part 110941-001. The wide end fits onto both the tape drive and the HBA, but the VHDCI end doesn't...
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- Thread
- Jul 29, 2013
- Replies: 7
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Quieting down HP Proliant DL380 G5 server for home use

I'll see if I can sell it then. Any good places to sell servers other than craigslist or ebay? Thanks
- mh321
- Post #16
- Jul 19, 2013
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Quieting down HP Proliant DL380 G5 server for home use

Well it was free, and if I sold it, I probably would just save the money, as I don't -have- to have a new computer since mine still runs. I just see this as an opputunity to have something newer. I guess I also like the build quality and it's kind of cool. I kind of solved the noise problem, I...
- mh321
- Post #13
- Jul 18, 2013
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Quieting down HP Proliant DL380 G5 server for home use

...compared to an average store-bought PC. Or my current almost decade-old hp pavilion a824n PC (has a 300W PSU if that helps). My PC has 2x 7200rpm HDDs and a FX5500 GPU. This server is single CPU, one SCSI card, and has 2x 10k serial scsi HDDs. It does have 2 power supplies though, which I...
- mh321
- Post #11
- Jul 17, 2013
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Quieting down HP Proliant DL380 G5 server for home use

How is the power consumption of this server compared to that of a desktop PC, if I was able to get around the noise problem by building a special cabinet for it? Does the server use a "scary" amount of electricity? Would it make a big impact on my electricity bill if it ran 4 hours a day...
- mh321
- Post #9
- Jul 17, 2013
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Quieting down HP Proliant DL380 G5 server for home use

So the server is able to detect the fan rpm using the 4 cables? And if it doesn't read the rpms it was hard-coded to expect, it will get confused and shut down? Does this server use considerably more power than a desktop, or the same? Any good ways to build a sound absorbing case for it, and...
- mh321
- Post #6
- Jul 16, 2013
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Quieting down HP Proliant DL380 G5 server for home use

Might the green wire be ground/earth?
- mh321
- Post #4
- Jul 16, 2013
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Quieting down HP Proliant DL380 G5 server for home use

Any ideas on how to get bigger fans in, while still being able to close the cover? At an angle maybe? The stock fans have 4 wires in them, which from looking at other fans on sale, is quite unusual, are all 4 wires needed?
- mh321
- Post #3
- Jul 16, 2013
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Quieting down HP Proliant DL380 G5 server for home use

Hello, I recently got the above server with a bunch of other components for free. I got the server to run windows server 2003 without any problems. It has one 2.83ghz Xeon quad core CPU, so it is by far the fastest computer I have in the house, and I'm hoping on keeping it as the build...
- mh321
- Thread
- Jul 16, 2013
- Replies: 31
- Forum: Cases & Cooling

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