Well That Was A Pricey Error

13oots2

13oots2

13oots2

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I tend to buy refurbished hard drives for bulk storage and have never really had any major problems using them with an LSI Mega RAID card, to cool the card a 120mm fan lodges perfectly under my graphics card and provides good airflow. Over the past couple of days, I have had 4 drives fail, pretty much since I updated my BIOS, RGB was working on the fan, so I assumed it was working, it's located the side of the case away from me.

I ordered 4 drives and another LSI card just in case that was the problem, took the smoked glass side panel off and immediately burned my hand on the old LSI. It appears I did not manually adjust the fan speed in the BIOS when I updated it, the fan had not been spinning at all in this heat for 2 days. 2 of the drives have now come back from the dead and the card seems to be fine now it has cooling. The plus side is that I have bigger drives coming and the LSI is a much newer version with more cache and double the SATA speed, it was an expense that could've been avoided.
 
Matt_Hirst said:
An expensive time.

How do you find the RAID card in general - am just looking at options at the moment.

Matt
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Have used LSI cards for years and love them, good features and is decent hardware support. Just got a card pulled from a working server for £50, 2GB cache, cache vault, backup battery and 12GB transfer speeds and supports up to 8 drives without a breakout board, it can also be used with SAS drives. The only thing to be aware of is what got me into trouble in the first place, they really do need an active cooling solution. The original card was an LSI 9271 8i and the newer card LSI 9361 8i, both can support up to a ridiculous 128 drives with appropriate hardware. Another advantage is if buying refurbished drives, SAS are supported and can can be had for less than SATA drives.
 
13oots2 said:
Have used LSI cards for years and love them, good features and is decent hardware support. Just got a card pulled from a working server for £50, 2GB cache, cache vault, backup battery and 12GB transfer speeds and supports up to 8 drives without a breakout board, it can also be used with SAS drives. The only thing to be aware of is what got me into trouble in the first place, they really do need an active cooling solution. The original card was an LSI 9271 8i and the newer card LSI 9361 8i, both can support up to a ridiculous 128 drives with appropriate hardware. Another advantage is if buying refurbished drives, SAS are supported and can can be had for less than SATA drives.
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Ok thanks for this, will take a deeper look.
 
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