Recent content by Ben Jobe

I recently set up an (8) 6TB disk RAID 5 array inside my PC tower using an LSI MegaRAID 9361-8i card. After waiting 7 days for a full NTFS format to finish, I ran Crystal Disk Mark and got these results: READ Seq. Q32T1: 1452 MB/s 4K Q32T1: 11 MB/s Seq.: 1044 MB/s 4K...

Update: I installed the new case fan. Here's the product link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835352023 This is a 1200 RPM 118 CFM fan (the fan it is replacing was 1000 RPM 68 CFM) and it is positioned on the side panel of my PC case so that it blows directly onto the...

Update: a Tech Support from Avago (LSI) responded to my inquiry about the chip's temperature. "The chip runs warm, it needs ample airflow to stay cool. 3.3.4.4 Operating and Nonoperating Conditions for MegaRAID SAS 9361 RAID Controllers For the MegaRAID SAS 9361 RAID controllers, the...

I recently purchased an LSI MegaRAID 9361-8i controller card for my desktop computer. I have it connected to (8) 6TB internal hard drives in RAID 5 configuration. My concern is the temperature of the onboard processor, which starts at 44 Celsius upon boot up and quickly rises to 74 Celsius...

I'm selling four hard drives which were arranged in two RAID 0 arrays. My understanding of RAID 0 is that the data is evenly distributed across the slices. So my assumption is that I can sell one of the slices with fear of anyone being able to reconstruct the data without the second slice. Is...