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NAS drives
So, there's this recent debut of "NAS" drives into the market. Seagate has their "NAS" series and WD has their "RED" series. I'm running a RAID 6 array of 9x 2TB drives (1 hotspare) using mdadm in...
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Need help with SAS expander and errors in syslog with raid 6
I recently bought the following: SGI Rackable 3U Storage Das Server SE3016 16 Trays SAS Cable JBOD SAS SATA | eBay I also bought the following card: LSI Internal SATA/SAS 9201-8i 6Gb/s PCI-Express I'm...
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C6100 power indicators blinking
I have recently got a C6100 and met an annoying issue here: all power indicators of 4 nodes are always blinking amber/green when they are on (blinking amber when they are off). After reading the...
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Old Acer Altos Easystore M2
I've an old Acer Altos Eaystore M2 with 4 Seagate ST31500341AS with a dead hd. I cannot find any kind of information about new hd compatibility and Acer stopped the support long ago. The bios and...
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4TB Seagate Drive $140
Check this out: Amazon.com: Seagate Desktop HDD 4 TB SATA 6Gb/s NCQ 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive ST4000DM000: Computers & Accessories I don't want less than 4TB drives these days. Got 1.
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Logitech G602 Mouse $49.99
Saw this one too. Amazon.com: Logitech G602 Wireless Gaming Mouse with 250 Hour Battery Life: Computers & Accessories I use these kinds of gaming mice because they are made for like 16 hour a day...
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Intel Xeon L5630 under $60
Saw two auctions and it seems as though these are falling in price like crazy. Here's info on the L5630 versus L5530. Not the fastest. But... ARK has these here: ARK | Intel® Xeon® Processor L5630...
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Crucial M500 960GB $439.99 on Amazon
Just snagged one. Power protection and a company with a better history than OCZ. Amazon.com: Crucial M500 960GB SATA 2.5-Inch 7mm (with 9.5mm adapter/spacer) Internal Solid State Drive CT960M500SSD1:...
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Remote Management vPro, IPMI, others?
Cross posted over at the unraid forums Just starting research for a new build. Overall goals are some sort of bare metal hypervisor (esxi or xen) with unraid as a guest. This box will also host...
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Infiniband Testing for High Speed Low Power AIO
Purpose / end state goal: I intend to build 2 new ESXi Servers on Xeon E3-1200v3 architecture in order to run a high efficiency network with minimal “always on” physical network hardware. This means no...
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Considering selling my LSI 9202-16e card
I have an LSI 9202-16e that I don't really need any more. The card is very hard to price as it is very rare to find on EBay and is OEM only so no retail stockists list it. The card has a low profile...
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FS: Mellanox ConnectX-3 40GbE cards and 56Gbps FDR cable
I have for sale components of a Mellanox 40GbE starter kit which includes: 2x Mellanox ConnectX-3 EN MCX313A-BCBT 40GbE NICs ($375 each) purchased from CompSource Apr 25, 2013 1x Mellanox MC2207310-020...
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Seagate 2TB SSHD (hard drive with some NAND) $100
Was looking for the new Western Digital Black^2 and saw that both Amazon and Newegg have the 2TB SSHD version for $99.99 - see here: Amazon.com: Seagate Desktop 2 TB Solid State Hybrid Drive SATA 6 GB...
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Western Digital Black^2- 128GB SSD plus 1TB hard drive
I saw the PR on this one and it looked really neat. Putting both a 1TB drive and a 128GB SSD into a single small form factor is awesome. Imagine what you could do in a 1U short depth twin server with...
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iPXE/iSCSI diskless boot
Starting a new thread to document diskless boot in my home lab. I was planning to write few posts regarding my cheap lab setup. Thanksgiving holiday got into the way. My name is Bob, I am 58 and...
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Newegg Cyber Monday - Lian Li PC-Q25B $60 AR
Here is one on a nice looking mini-ITX case that might work as a NAS - LIAN LI PC-Q25B Black Aluminum Mini-ITX Tower Computer Case - Newegg.com Smaller than that Bitfenix on here a few days ago. $79.99...
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Drobo 5N on Amazon Cyber Monday - $429 again
Back down to $429 like it was last week for 4 hours only: Amazon.com: Drobo 5N 5-Bay NAS Storage Array, Gigabit Ethernet (DRDS4A21): Computers & Accessories Not a bad little system and it has space...
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Supermicro A1SRi-2758F Motherboard Resources
Starting testing of the Supermicro A1SRi-2758F motherboard. Keeping a public scratchpad. OS Supported/ Tested CentOS 6.5 - Working out of the box VMware ESXi 5.5 - Use method described for ESXi and...
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Source for Supermicro 1u Standoffs
Hi, I have an older Supermicro 1U Chassis (CSE-512), I am trying to find a source for the 1U standoffs, small screw and nut see photo below: Anybody know a source for these? Thanks Justin
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Solidified my napp-it config w/ Comstar & iSCSI
I have not had much free time the last several months, so my tinkering with my storage system has been spotty. When I have had the chance, I have been testing different configurations with napp-it and...
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