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Intel Pro 1000 PT Quad Port NIC on Intel DQ77MK Motherboard
Hi All I am having a bit of a funny issue and wonder if anybody else has come across this. I have 4 x Intel Pro 1000 PT Quard port PCIe network cards. All four have worked perfectly in the past in...
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Dell YPNRC - Would this let me use NVMe in my server?
I saw this by Dell on ebay for $300. It looks like it has a PCIe connector and room for 4 drives? Dell PowerEdge R720 R820 SSD PCI E Expansion Card 4 Port Ypnrc No Cables | eBay Would that let me use...
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CLF's Micro-Lab
Background I work as an Information Security Architect and am putting together a lab to hone exploit development, pen-testing, and other security skills. As a secondary goal, I will be working toward...
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Request for benchmark - Samsung 845DC drives
Patrick, can we get some benchmarks of the Samsung 845DC 3D V-NAND drives? I've heard they are faster than Intel's. Not many used ones on the market tho.
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Dual Intel Xeon E5-2690 V3 Run
Here are the results of the dual Intel Xeon E5-2690 V3 run from earlier today: 17121421024957 You can see a fun platform I have in the lab right now.
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Serer 2012 R2, Storage Spaces and Tiering
Starting a new thread for open discussion of recent upgrades to Storage Spaces. Is this enough to make it interesting? With the release of Server 2012 R2 / Windows 8.1 MS has added some interesting new...
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Intel 200GB S3700 SSDs
Intel S3700 200 GB SSDs, currently 10+ available 250$ or make an offfer Intel DC S3700 Series 200GB 2 5" SFF Solid State Hard Drive SSD SSDSC2BA200G3 | eBay
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Help hooking it all together
I’m not really sure where to put this, but since I’m looking for specific advice about networking as part of it, I figured here was as good a place as any. Current Storage: I am in the process of...
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Crucial M550 and Perc H310
I'm looking to add a pair of 256GB SSD's under a Perc H310 RAID1. The drive is available at newegg for $89. The intended use will be as a VM datastore under ESXi 5.5 How does does garbage collection or...
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5 monitors on dual R9 270x Wont Work- Unable to save display settings
Hey, Im trying to run 5 x monitors on my dual R9 270x cards (not running crossfire , no eyefinity). Running Win7 Sp1 64bit , AMD CCC 14.12 Omega vid drivers. All the monitors detect correctly in both...
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HP branded Intel S3500 600GB $240 ea
This is just spectacular: HP 600GB 6g 2 5" Intel SSD DC S3500 Series 717968 005 | eBay They are HP branded drives, but looking awesome price wise. Cheaper than the 320's usually go for. I'm in for 1.
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Lenovo ThinkServer RD440 new in the box - $1000 obo free ship to anywhere in...
Hi all, I got this server as a gift for helping someone on a tech project. It's brand new in the box and factory sealed. It's a Lenovo RD440 with 1 E5-2420 V2 6 core processor (dual socket capable),...
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Amazon Prime - New Lenovo RD640 - Xeon E5-2620 V2, 8GB Ram, $450 with Free...
Amazon.com: ThinkServer RD640 70AY0006UX 2U Rack Server - 1 x Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2 2.1GHz: Computers & Accessories Was looking for just a CPU, and given the price of just an 2620 V2 is around $350...
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GlusterFS shared storage on Hyper-V
This weekend I was sketching something out. I want to have shared storage for Hyper-V but I'm nervous about license costs. If MS makes desktop Windows free, I'm worried what that'll do to the next...
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Suggestion: WebEx or Google Hangout technologies
Hey I've got an idea for STH... It seems like STH community works on different technologies at similar times. What if we did like conference calls where we could all get on for an hour or two and work...
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Supermicro 4u 24 bay chassis with SAS2 expander
Hi, This was posted in the supermicro 3u thread but I wanted to make my own now that I have received the chassis and I can confirm that everything was as advertised. I reached out to the seller of this...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 and iSCSI Target and MPIO
I'm doing a bunch of lab testing with Windows Server 2012 R2 as a storage server, attached to VMW clusters with 40Gb IPoIB. So far have tested NFS with caching and such, looking for guidance on using...
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postcode Dell C6100
Hello, I just start my new motherboard of Dell C6100 with one L5520 and 6*2Go but i have a problem: when i start the system, i have nothing on the screen and a code post on the led looks like a 63. I...
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When will pfsense 2.2-RELEASE happen?
Rumor has it we are getting close to pfsense 2.2-RC. See the announcement here. I have been using pfsense 2.2 since the ALPHA releases and it is getting much better, especially in Hyper-V.
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Synology DS1513+ Perfomance hits - iSCSi
Just configured a new DS to replace a Windows Storage server that is hosting CSV, configured the same MPIO settings as the old Windows NAS (Redundant nics and switches dedicated for iSCSi) but I'm...
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