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post #61 of 73
1/30/13 at 2:47pm
Cheaping out on the case again, eh? wink.gifwink.gif

It must be fun to build something in a case that nice.
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post #62 of 73
1/30/13 at 3:06pm
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Originally Posted by StardogChampion View Post

It must be fun to build something in a case that nice.

It's niceness is only paralleled by it's impracticality biggrin.gif
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post #63 of 73
1/30/13 at 4:14pm
I'm running 12 WD Red 2TB drives in my storage server without issue. All the drives are connected to an Adaptec 5805 controller via a Chenbro CK13601 SAS expander.


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post #64 of 73
1/30/13 at 4:17pm
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Originally Posted by shabazkilla View Post

I'm running 12 WD Red 2TB drives in my storage server without issue. All the drives are connected to an Adaptec 5805 controller via a Chenbro CK13601 SAS expander.



I think this is some sort of strange motherboard vs red incompatibility. Needless to say we won't use this specific motherboard again with the red drives.
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post #65 of 73
2/1/13 at 11:19am
what is your solution ???
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post #66 of 73
2/1/13 at 4:30pm
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what is your solution ???
Going out on a limb here but I'm going to guess not to use that particular motherboard with the red drives.
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post #67 of 73
2/28/13 at 12:51pm
Asassin,

What was your final solution ??

Change the mobo or change the drives? Or did WD come through with a fix ?
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post #68 of 73
2/28/13 at 1:41pm
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Asassin,

What was your final solution ??

Change the mobo or change the drives? Or did WD come through with a fix ?

Changed the drives. Works well.
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post #69 of 73
2/28/13 at 3:07pm
So now you are using more than 5 Red drives with the ASRock mobo?
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post #70 of 73
2/28/13 at 3:17pm
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So now you are using more than 5 Red drives with the ASRock mobo?

No.
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post #71 of 73
2/28/13 at 8:25pm
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No.

So you haven't solved the issue yet...
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post #72 of 73
2/28/13 at 8:28pm
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Nope. Didn't have time to troubleshoot further. Customer wanted his HTPC.

Likely an ASRock controller issue I think. Doubt it has anything at all to do with the WD Red drives. Like I said worked perfectly well with all Greens or a combination of Red and Green.
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post #73 of 73
2/28/13 at 8:28pm
I believe it might just be a limitation. It's probably not going to effect 99% of the people. But it does kinda suck. It's not unreasonable to want to use 5+ HDD's in a PC build and Asrock is not exactly a strange motherboard.
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