HP dx2200 SATA issues
I look after a number of HP dx2200 PCs at work; it’s a solid Pentium 4 PC with off the shelf components. I mention that as all it’s components are standard and not crazy OEM modified items: motherboard, RAM, CPU…
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Super Micro P8SCT
Picked up a Super Micro P8SCT motherboard for practically nothing and had it sitting in my pile of spare components for a few years. I recently decided to set up a new Windows Home Server and wanted to press this…
RAIDCore BC4852
The BC4000 RAID HBA family, comprised of 64-bit, PCI-X low-profile compliant controller cards, are the only 2U compatible SATA RAID controller cards available today. The product family provides both four-drive (BCM4452-H) or eight-drive (BCM4852-H) support and are based on Broadcom’s…
Promise S150 SX4
FastTrak S150 SX4 Four-port Serial ATA RAID controller with 1.5Gbps per channel 32-Bit/66MHz PCI 2.2 interface Support for RAID level 0, 1, 10, 5 and JBOD Online array expansion and RAID level migration to add capacity on the fly Supports…
Promise SATA300 TX4
I was repurposing an older Xeon workstation and needed SATA ports which this particular system lacked (see eBabble Weakly for more info). There is a distinct lack of SATA rev 1.0a (with spec extensions)controller cards available, i.e. 300 MB/s connection,…
3ware Escalade 8506-8
Escalade® 8506 Series Supports up to 12 drives with a single PCI card enabling up to 3terabytes of storage (dependent on drive capacity , 2TB per array maximum) Supports ATA / 133 / 100 drives with a Parallel-to-Serial Drive Converter…
iStar USA BPU-230 SATA
Storage and ATA RAID are a few focuses here at eBabble, and a drive cage is particularly handy when you want quick access to installed hard drives. In a rack mount environment drive cages become a must, as fiddling with…