Haswell-E platform driver issue affects SATA ports

[HEXUS]

Intel RSTe driver issue reduces number of supported SATA 6Gb/s ports.

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[DanceswithUnix]

So still supports raid-Z and btrfs just fine?

10 drives seems rather a lot for a RAID 5 stripe set anyway.

[miniyazz]

So still supports raid-Z and btrfs just fine?

10 drives seems rather a lot for a RAID 5 stripe set anyway.

Yeah unless the drives are pretty small RAID 5 would be a complete non-starter. RAID 6 is also pushing it with 10 normal size drives.

Whether it matters for those with several smaller arrays is unclear. Either way it's not likely to affect me since I no longer use RAID..

[tygrus]

But what about the 10 ports being used for 2 arrays of 5 drives each. 2 x 5 =10. Advertising 10 ports then reducing features and flexibility is still misleading to buyers.