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Reply from OCZ support: Hi, All the information provided is indicative of a firmware / NAND controller failure. At this point, as I have mentioned previously, such manifestations of erratic / unresponsive controller is normally replaced with a corresponding SSD. Guess this is a closed issue...

So been trying to figure this out all weekend. I finally edited my fstab file and removed the "discard" option on my mounts to keep my syslog from being spammed. I've at least come up with a repeatable situation surrounding trying to trim and the syslog errors. 1. $ sudo fstrim -v / fstrim...

A little more information about the drive in question $ sudo smartctl -x /dev/sdb smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-linux-3.16.0-41-generic] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family...

Hello all, System info: Ubuntu 14.04.2 and Areca 1680ix My home server has recently started acting flaky and I strongly suspect a disk in my array is going bad. The below messages have recently started showing up in the syslog. Jul 2 01:48:49 rodolfo kernel: [ 1932.763702] ata3.00...

Hello, So I bought a Areca Raid card open box a while back and never got any 8087 cables with my purchase. Am looking to finally expand and was hoping someone might have some spare cables around. PM if you are interested in unloading some. Very respectfully, Garrett

No... and Yes. No first... Under warranty rights(and a major reason that act was passed) is that "modifications" don't necessarily clear a company from fault. Only modifications that are directly shown to show fault can clear a company of warranty responsibilities. Think about it...

This sounds illegal. If a manufacturer warranty is issued it cannot trump first sale doctrine. When you buy a used car, the warranty on the car transfers. I don't see how the same shouldn't apply here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Moss_Warranty_Act If you're company...

Update: pgjensen where were you able to determine it was beta firmware from? Am I missing a firmware description or update page or something? FYI... Not sure of all your guys' thoughts on this but figured I would post it for your info... Background: Sent an inquiry friday about the...

anyone know what was updated yesterday/2 days ago for the 1680? it says the firmware was updated but shows the same version...

ok... I have to admit... After I bought my Norco 4220 and plugged it in I wished I went for a server with integrated fan control (being honest). After a short while I was pointed to the fact that for ~2k I could have purchased a Supermicro case with integrated SAS expander backplane and a...

Ah cool. Well next time a backplane fails I'll consider one of these. They look to be about half the price from what Norco was quoting me anyways.

I take it these are fake or crap then. Looked like an interesting concept, getting a fully functioning backplane...

Anyone come across these yet? http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/257217263/SAS_SATA_SGPIO_4_Bay_Mini.html Looks like they are upgraded backplanes for the 4X20 series to support SGPIO.

if there is anyway to integrate a fan header connection that would allow for motherboard control of the fan board (either integrated or stand alone) I am really jealous of our dl360g5 that spins up... then DOWN after power on. Something like that would be fantastic.

I just called about the RAMSAN 620, here are some price points (unofficial) on bare bones solutions: 1TB = 55k 5TB = 220k They also just released their 630 solution with capacities up to 10TB but they were unable to comment on pricing, although they did say the 630 should save 1-20k over...