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I bought a 9211 but not from you - if I'd seen this video first I would have gone to your store. Noted for next time. Thanks for making content like this. Do you think an LSI 9211 8i needs a fan attached to the card? I have an Antec P101 which has 3 front-facing fans which should blow across the entire motherboard, but I'm concerned about the hard drive cages blocking some of the air. I'm assuming if the HBA overheats, I'll get some type of warning/error, rather than permanently damaging my card (or worse, introducing errors into my data)?

I recently purchased two Precision 7910 workstations and got some SAS drives to put in them. This video was *EXACTLY* the tutorial I required to update the SAS controller firmware and BIOS which took me from not being able to use the 14TB drives I purchased to now being able to use them. Thank you very much. The only thing you didn't have was links to the firmware downloads, but I was able to find those. Your whole series on the Precision 7910 is useful to me. Much appreciated.

Exactly what I've been looking for. We recently had two HP DL360 G9s refuse to boot after starting an upgrade process and swapping out the CR2032 battery on the board *seemed* to be the solution to get them to boot. I've been researching and planning my first home lab build and it was a lot of fun to service my first servers and I've learned so much from your channel already.

You da man!

thanks

Addendum to this video. The PCIe slot is fixed to have a max of 35 watts power delivery. Not the standard 75 watts of the normal slot. So be aware of this, if you do put a GPU in with the intention of gaming. As the 85/90 watt power bricks cannot handle the power draw, and shuts down the machine, once a game has started. I tried a Quadro K1200 HHHL card. Shut down within 5-10 seconds of any game loading. The T620 Pluses have the same PCIe limitation.

Hello. I hope you still offer replyes to commets :) I did exactly what you did, but i have a problem. I can see the drives in the raid controller, but i cannot boot from the drive connected like this. Windows is start booting, but then it crushes. If i connect the ssd to normal sata, it works just fine, but when is connected with the blue cabble into SAS port, it crushes while booting. Do you know what it may cause this? I also tried to connect the ssd, directly to the blue cable , without the 4x bay and the same problem. Also, when i connect the drive like this, i can't boot in bios anymore. What i could figure out, is that the bay it loses power when windows try to boot. it purely loses power at all. I presume the ssd gets the same problem when connected without the bay. Thank you very much.

Muy bien explicado. Es algo muy correcto evitar tocar los contactos , ni siquiera mínimamente. También limpiarlos con un paño de algodón y alcohhol. Antes de insertarlos, los módulos RAM, es conveniente mirar con lupa que no hayan hilos de la tela.

Just go to iDRAC settings and switch from Java to HTML5.

There are plenty of 100G switches for $1,000-1,600, but they look complicated AF to setup and god help you if something goes wrong. I was looking at an Arista 100G switch and the user manual was over 3,000 pages!

I wouldn’t say it’s peaking once again. It has a long way to go before that happens. There are more places to watch than ever before . They still have the ability to catch fire someday with the right mix of celebrity and storylines that one day could get them at their peak. From 1997-2002 weekly average was between 4.5-5.5 million viewers weekly for Raw. That’s more than Raw and Smackdown combined today. The product is nowhere close to that today. I think moving the product to Netflix and being more edgy will exponentially increase the viewership and popularity.

These LSI megaraid controller are super cheap now. I just made a parity raid with Storage Spaces. basically raid 5. Will the hardware raid controller offer better performance than the storage space?

Pretty sure this is almost 3 decades old technology now... Seagate just happened to be the current holder of the patent and revive it!

Do these backplanes present 3.3V on SATA PIN3 preventing the use of modern HDDs without taping off the pin?

Wish this awesome info applied to my situation. My Cisco UCS C240 M4 has 12 SAS drives attached to the controller and all 12 are seen and functional. The problem is, these drives are storage drives setup in a Raid 6 configuration and the server boots off of a couple of Intel SSD's that are setup in a Raid to protect the OS. These two SSD's are plugged into a couple of SATA sockets on a PCIe board, which is separate from the SAS controller. The BIOS does not show these drives as bootable. When I try to load Windows, the install gets to a point where it asks where to install Windows and neither of the SSD's are in the list. Matter of fact, the only thing on the list is the USB dongle where the Windows installer lives. And of course, Windows can't and shouldn't be installed there. Ah, the joys of servers.

I just watched this entire video, it is great, but I'm even more confused now because I've been going round and round with this QSSC-2ML for 16 hours and my brain is mush.

I have a pile of old hard drives in odd sizes. All I want to do is throw together a big ol NAS to store junk in. I'm not an enterprise level operation. I'm not making it for anything else. There's nothing critical on this data. It's all duplicated on my desktop (the majority of it is also sitting on Dropbox and Google Drive!) But whenever I want to do something that is not the *absolutely correct* way, Home Lab/Home Networking communities will refuse to answer a question, and tell you what you *should* be doing instead. It's honestly insufferable. The warning you made at the start of this video, and the term "forbidden arts" really just says it all. Thanks for treating people like adults.

I can never find the link on these shorts. If I swipe down the next video plays. Link?

Hey guy what about using a PCIe Board with a M.2 NVMe SSD on board? Will this work for a boot Drive and if so how can you ID the Drive on boot?

Can you share the script?

If I'm successful I'll let you know. Thanks.

Old video but I got kind of excited when I read the title because I've been trying to figure out how to get my Cisco UCS C240 M4 to recognize either of its Intel SSD boot drives. When I tried installing Windows, it got all the way to where it wanted to know which drive to install and it gave me a choice of only the USB stick where the Windows installer lived and nothing else. And of course, it won't install there, even if I wanted it to. The Avago SAS controller does not show either of the Intel drives, only the 12 HGST data drives. Not surprising since neither SSDs are attached to the Avago SAS controller and are instead plugged into a PCIe card. I can't find them in the BIOS either. Of course, none of this means much since I have little to no knowledge of servers. I just recently acquired this server as a broken unit. I repaired it and installed two blank Intel 240GB S3520 SSDs in the PCIe SATA slots. I have no real plans for this thing, just wanted to play around with it and maybe learn something. I do have a lot of desk top PC experience though. And I stayed in a Holiday Inn once or twice (one needs to be of a certain age to understand what that means. Lol).

I got the magnetic cable for the wired keyboard and it didn't work :( Windows wouldn't recognize the keyboard. Was there any adjustments you had to make to get the magnetic cable working? Like maybe a specific setting or driver?

I bet those LED are different bining... And also serviceable ( removable and replaceable with identical bright bining blue LED lights round or square, Nichia, Cree, or even China made)...🤔💭😇

HI, I am very new to SAS but not new to computers. Been building my own PC Since the the 80's. I seen MFM, RLL, ESDI, SCSI, IDE, SATA, NVMe drives. Drives where you literally have to program the controller, set jumpers, and use debug to setup. Brings back lots of good memory and fun times. I won't say how old I am. However, I am a little lost in the Enterprise Server world. Hope you can help make a recommendation. I have a Home Server used as a Media Center Data Server. I have a total of 27 HDD ranging from 4TB to 20TB. Right now I can only have 8 online at at time as I only have a 8 Bay SATA to USB 3.0 Hard Drive Enclosure Non-RAID / JBOD connected to a Mini ITX ASUS MB running Ubuntu / SAMBA. I am looking to get into a 24 Bay SAS and seriously need to minimize cost. External: I was hoping to just get an External Enclosure but this seems hard to find on a low budget, plus the external cards & cables seem more pricy than the internal cards and cables. Internal: I also see some 4U 24 Bay Chassis on Amazon starting around 499.00. Unknown brand name. So is it cheaper to build the whole computer in 1 chassis or are there External 24 bay chassis out there that support the common connector types on a budget?

If a PCI e hba is 6 Gb and a drive typically can do 200 MB/s, should 30 HDD per HBA be okay?

Thanks for explaining this so clearly and simply

this is a brilliant video. Quite long but really helped with the understanding. And we need just the understanding not just a fixit instruction, otherwise we'd never learn right?

I have an X10SLL-F in my JBOD case (Antec VSK4000E). IPMI is working with CPU and RAM. I tried to use this to run my fans and power without CPU and RAM but after removing the CPU and RAM, it would just constantly power cycle, IPMI showing on and off cycling without ability to manage remotely. Any thoughts? Also, I just aquired a SM 825-TQ as a chassis upgrade so I wonder if this will allow the motherboard to function properly for this purpose because maybe the motherboard needs certain things plugged into it that the antec didn't have but the 825-TQ will? Thanks

Even in 2024 your video is still helpful. Thank you

Can a 10TB (HUH721010AL5200) 12Gb/s drive be used on a Dell R720XD with a mini H710 controller, even though the H710 mini supports only up to 6Gb/s?

Great video, I Loved it. I really liked the fact that started from the scratch.. unboxing card, physically installing it on the server. These small things means a lot for new guys, like me. THANKS!!!

Would you please share 30_run_benchmark_v5 script?

Wow ... How is possible to write on disk more then disk protocol can handle? 😅 Was want to order from your store so many time but import to europe is insane costly...

Have you any experience upgrading an eight bay R720 to a sixteen bay backplane (with sas expander and cage)?

I have a T7910 with AIO cooling and (x2) E5-2699A V4s. :) it rocks. :)

Is it same procedure for lenovo x3650 m5 ? IBM 00AG941 8 x 2.5" SAS Backplane Expander

It's just a pity that they don't offer a version with numpad.

The most obvious problem is always the easiest to miss.

I love mine. Video editing

The problem I had with this bare carrier is overheating. Had to switch to an enclosure with some cooling strips.

Nice video

Ok so I know this is a 4 year old video. Just getting into servers. How do you supply power to your additional HDDs?

On this board PCH temp seems to be quite high for some reason Mine rises to 70C with the cover on but if I remove the cover it drops to 61C I have another board the same and it stays at 48C They both use the same CSE847 case and fans Any idea what could be happening?

Was purchased Intel X520-DA2 + HBA LSI 9201-8i Thanks for the explanations

Why it is calvin ???? Is calvin developed IDRAC.

Well done. A video regarding updating the firmware and bios on these new controllers (94xx, 95xx, 96xx) would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.