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Poor man's diy ZeusRAM
Was not sure whether to have the subject as "Poor man's diy ZeusRAM" or "What to do with that spare $20 second hard raid card you have lying around" or "one valid reason for using a ramdisk as zil...
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LOL @ this AD on this forum
I blame @chinesestunna for this ad showing up, LOL (due to his "chinese" username) Screen clip
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ESXi 6 and pass through disk without vt-d. Possible now?
Since managing Free Hyper-V in a workgroup is starting to really piss me off, I am looking at ESXi 6 to see if that can satisfy me. I have experience with ESX(i) so setting things up won't be a...
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Homebrew 10GbE switch
So I've seen this discussion a few times now and I've thought about it myself. Let's ask the questions and see if we can get some testing/thoughts. Overall question: Can we build an effective 10GbE...
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Corsair CMZ12GX3M3A1600C9 6x4gig sticks of ddr3
listed here on ebay i have 2x 12gig kits totaling 24gig Corsair PC3 12800 12 GB DIMM 1600 MHZ DDR3 Memory Cmz12gx3m3a1600c9 843591010863 | eBay
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Intel S3700 100GB - $71
Not necessarily a "great" deal, but seems like it might be a good one. I was looking for a pair of smallish S3700's to setup as mirrored ZIL on a ZFS build ... Didn't have luck with ebay - 100GB S3700s...
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SuperMicro A1SRM-LN5F-2358
Here's an odd board. $300 sounds too much: New Supermicro A1SRM LN5F 2358 Motherboard Full MFR Warranty | eBay I didn't see a sth review but 7w SoC and IPMI 4 ded lan with bypass. Expensive but nice...
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2.5" drive enclosures - SAS vs SAS2
Hi all, I'm getting 6 Fujitsu 2.5" 15K 300GB SAS2 drives, I'm thinking about getting 2x this enclosure to hold them: Comix International Co Ltd The specs only mention SAS and not SAS2, experience tells...
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My home/hobby Hyper-V Monster
Build’s Name: Weust's Hyper-V Monster Operating System: Hyper-V 2012 R2 CPU: Intel C2758 Motherboard: Supermicro A1SRi-2758F Chassis: Supermicro SuperServer 5018A-FTN4 Drives: Samsung SM843T 240GB /...
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Nitro's - Condo=Home Data Center Replacement
Hello STH Family Over the next two weeks this thread will be used for detailing out my redo/consolidation/update to my home datacenter. So bear with me as updates/pictures roll in. Background So for my...
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What do people here use for video cards
My old ATI (3 yrs old now) is getting long in the tooth and is too loud. I am going crazy and it is time for an upgrade. I've been considering and ASUS STRIX GTX 970 The key feature for me is silent...
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NAS Windows
Hi All, I'm currently considering a build for a NAS based on Windows 2012 R2 Server . Initially I wanted to implement Windows 2012 R2 Storage Server. But it turns out that it's only a version of...
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LSI SAS9200-16e vs LSI SAS9201-16e
LSI SAS9200-16e vs LSI SAS9201-16e I see both of these cards cropping up on ebay. They seem to be both SAS2008 chip as far as I can tell, the 9200-16e has a lower power draw listed but not much, and...
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Advice on NAS for backups, $2k budget
Hello, I'm putting together a NAS as a backup target for some virtual and physical servers. It will be used in production and I want to stick with a rackmount system. It will run FreeNAS (or ZFS in...
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Debugging Intel dual gigabit NIC I340-T2 - CentOS
Hey folks, I have a Intel 82580EB I340-T2 that I'm trying to get working. I'm having some issues trying to get the adapter to initialize. I'm new to working with NICs and don't know how to debug this....
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LSI 9260-8i confused battery state
Hi all, I'm running a Supermicro rebranded flashed to LSI 9260-8i RAID card with BBU in my workstation and so far so good. One strange issue I've noticed is that there seems to be inconsistent info...
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12U Rack
Operating System/ Storage Platform: ESXi / ZFSonLinux CPU: Xeon E3s (1x V1, 1x V2, 2x V3) Motherboard: Supermicro X9/X10 seies Chassis: Supermicro SC846 / SC822T / 3U "special" Drives: 48x Seagate 2TB...
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(UK) HP DL380p Gen 8
I have for sale the barebones to my Gen 8. Looking to make a shortcase setup. This server is brand new, i installed it into my rack however realised my rack is actualy a network rack! :OH!:: Im...
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IBM Serveraid M5110: unable to boot
Hi All, I bought an IBM Serveraid M5110 card with 512MB flash and having problems in even booting with the card. The system(Asus Z87 pci-e 3.0) hangs at boot before even getting into BIOS. Any help...
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Supermicro 2.5" HotSwap Trays (Sale/Deal)
So I test ordered 1 from amazon and it fit, then I ordered 16 trays to use between my 4 SM chassis... or so I thought. It looks like the amazon part# was wrong, but what they sent me "worked", and what...
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