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6/8 port Sata PCI-E Raid Card Recommendations
I am looking for a 6/8 port Sata PCI-E Raid/Controller Card to put into my main rig. I have my bottom PCI-E slot open. I have a Thermaltake RC1600101A MAX-1562. I want to put in Six Sata 3/6GB SSD's....
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L4BM - Activate Ports?
Just bought on of the very much praised Quanta LB4Ms.. I am able to connect to it via serial/Putty.. However, I am have a hard time figuring how to activate the ports.. I'm sure it is something simple,...
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Triple Rank DIMMs
Has anyone tried using the Hewlett-Packard branded "Smart Memory" 3rx4 24GB DIMMs in a Supermicro motherboard running an Intel Xeon 5600 series processor?
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ARM benchmarks
Hello. I'm new to the forums here, and I like the Linux-Bench, especially as it's becoming a standard across more and more review sites. I was running the bench on an ARM SBC (Banana Pi) and noticed...
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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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Exchange 2013 Server (Data Stores Question)
Anyone here still doing onsite Exchange 2013. I need to setup Dual CAS, Dual Mailbox Server. I am having hard time finding the storage for the data stores ~about 1TB. Is it safe to use SSDs?
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hyper-V freebsd ZFS vm's talk at 1gig?
So I am tinkering with hyper-v and the thought occurred to me that given how much I enjoy ZFS and things like LZ4 and compression and the like why not setup a datastore using FBSD and serve disks back...
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FS: 1.2TB Dell ioDrive Duo PCI Express SSDs
I have a total of four 1.2TB Dell ioDrive Duo PCI Express SSDs for sale. These drives are enterprise-grade and consist of two 640GB MLC NAND drives on one card. These were pulled from a working server...
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Moving to ESX - Need a NIC
I'm going to move my lab to ESX from Hyper-v. The drivers behind this are: 1) I am starting to use Linux more regularly and the support for Linux guests on HV still leaves a bit to be desired 2) VMUG...
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2015 ebay Bucks #1 out today!
Check for the e-mail. Buying all of these SAS and SATA SSDs, plus gear for the colo upgrade had my ebay bucks top $200 this quarter. How did everyone else do?
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FS/FT: IBM M5015 512MB w/BBU & RAID6 Key
I recently replaced this M5015 with an HP P420 in my server, so I'd like to sell or trade it. I purchased this from ebay as a system pull a while back. The RAID6 key was also ordered from ebay and came...
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Samsung PM863
Did anyone try this yet? Samsung PM 863 Data Center Series MZ7LM480HCHP 00003 2 5" 480GB SATA III MLC E | eBay $400/ 480gb - they're supposed to have PLP and 3d v-nand.
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So this is mildly creepy.
Google be watching me. Attack on Titan, Hatsune Miku, and Sword Art Online II. I don't know whether to be impressed with their ad service or mildly terrified.
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Help me with a high compute/high mem build
Hello, So the wife is wanting to try some of her work analytics software at home. To do so she needs a cluster that is fast and with enough memory for the processing. The cluster will be running...
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USED Dell 128GB M.2 2260 (22mmx60mm) NGFF SSD SATA III 6Gbps
I found these on auction site:graysonline.com.au Dell 128GB NGFF SSD Drives- final sale Please note Australia wide delivery. Also note additional buyers premium 17.5% and 10% sales tax (GST). Plus...
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Linux web based photo manager
I'm looking for a photo/picture gallery that runs on linux and can be administered through a browser (no dependency on a desktop environment). I don't see anything that is web based. Any...
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Pardon our dust! Jan 2015
Hi STH community, I just wanted to give everyone a quick heads-up that we may be experiencing a small bit of downtime. What is happening? We are moving from our current 1/4 cabinet of colocation...
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Quanta LB4M 48-Port Gigabit Switch Discussion
I started this separate thread (per request) for future reference and discussion of the Quanta LB4M 48p gbE + 2x 10gbE sfp+ switch and this old ebay thread is the source. I picked up three Quanta LB4M...
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Qnap v Synology
Hi all, I need to considerably downsize the physical footprint of my current server (4ru norco running openindiana) and I am looking at both Qnap (ts-815) and Synology (ds-1815+) 8 bay models. Does...
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Next NAS - Time to shed spinning disks?
At the gym this morning I had a perhaps crazy thought: What if my next NAS no longer included a spinning disk? On my lab NAS, STH uses about 1.5-2TB for raw photo storage, 0.5TB or so for images I keep...
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