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Dell J23 / J23c 23-bay LFF ?
Anyone have the specs or experience using the Dell J23C storage chassis? Seems to be another DCS special. 12 LFF bays in the front, 11LFF bays in the rear, 2 SAS ports. dell (j23,j23c) in Enterprise......
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Anyone running Quick Sync + Handbrake on Linux?
I've been following @PigLover and his X10SBA hyper-v build on these forums. I want to take one of them and do three things with it: - run a pfsense 2.2 VM - run a Samba 4 domain controller with CentOS...
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MikroTik CRS226-24G-2S+IN - 24 port gigabit + 2x 10gig SFP+
Has anyone used these, especially interested in noise and power consumption. They are selling for only $289 MSRP! Product specifications Details Product codeCRS226-24G-2S+IN CPU nominal frequency400...
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IBM M5016 experiences
my 3rd IBM ServeRAID card just arrived, this time a brand new M5016 SAS2208 based 1GB Cache (DDR3 1333Mhz) Cachevault Came with FW 23.7.0-0029 (Latest IBM) Updated to 23.7.0-0035 (Latest LSI) First...
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2 NUCs - Is there any way to use one power brick?
I just got some cheap Celeron NUCs off of craigslist. The power bricks are almost bigger than the NUCS! Is there any way to run two of them off of one power supply?
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Did I get the wrong cable?
I currently have an m1015, and wanted to get an extra pair of cables. Turns out I got the mini sas to sata cable, but comes with an sgpio cable as well. While reading, it seems this is a different...
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Chenbro CK23601 drops drives
I have a Chenbro CK23601 36 port expander connected to a Dell H810 (SAS2208). When I was using the H810 by itself with 8 Seagate ST3000DM000 drives I never had any problem. I purchased the expander for...
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Finally replacing the Mac Mini with a hexa-core build
Build’s Name: VM-Box1 Operating System/ Storage Platform: vSphere 5.5, Windows Server 2012 R2, SUSE Linux Enterprise CPU: Intel Xeon Processor X5650 (12M Cache, 2.66 GHz, 6.40 GT/s Intel® QPI) (6 core...
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Manage Workgroup Hyper-V Server without Active Directory
Patrick submitted a new resource: Manage Workgroup Hyper-V Server without Active Directory - Manage from a workgroup machine using Hyper-V Manager or Server Manager While setting up a test Hyper-V lab...
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Home file/media/web server
This is my first post to Serve the Home forums. I trolled the site and forums before my most recent build (which was 6 months ago) and figured I'd post the setup as it has been performing wonderfully...
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Patrick's "Going to get married" FS Thread (updated often)
Since I am about to get married I have noticed two forces at work: Fiancee probably would like less server equipment around (strange since she is the programmer) Weddings are expensive So time to start...
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My DIY 1U server for home
Hi all, Been lurking here while making all kinds of plans to start building a 'real' server for home use. Really informative forums here, very much appreciated! After running a workstation with VMWare...
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ESXi Cluster without dedicated SAN
I need a bit help from community to explain what exact software I will need to learn and understand. I have a C6100 which I am interested in creating four node-cluster. Each node will have following:...
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Intel SR1680MV Dual Node Barebones System $120 (+ship)
Intel SR1680MV 1U Rack Chassis Server System Warranty No CPUs No HDDs No RAM | eBay With the prices of C6100's skyrocketing I've picked up 4 of these. First order the seller accepted $140 ea, this time...
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Ethernet Switched PDU (8 outlet) $50
I was looking at that NUC farm thread Got me looking at PDUs and saw this one $50 OBO with lots available. Baytech RPC 3 8 Outlet Remote Power Managenet Unit | eBay I am thinking of getting... Ethernet...
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Advice on 6Gb HBA/Raid adapter for C6100
I´m seeking some advice on choosing a HBA or Raid controller for a pair of Dell C6100´s I just bought. I havn´t got the machines yet, but would like to get decent drive controllers for it now if...
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Astek A33606 expander experiences
Am awaiting the arrival of the above for mentioned expander. Never played with expanders before and found this one on Ebay for a reasonable price. It's not a more common Intel or Chenbro, so am taking...
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STHbench 2013 - Download and Instructions
Patrick submitted a new resource: STHbench 2013 - Download and Instructions - Download the 2013 STHbench test script On October 6, 2013 we formally released the STHbench test script. The impact of...
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eBay Hard Drive Deals
Hey guys! Jet lag is killing my sleep cycle so i thought i would look online for some hard drives for my new NAS build and i found these white label gems...at least i think so : RE4 3TB SATA II...
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XenForo Change Over - Please give comments!
Ended up getting the URL rewrites to work on a test environment just after a SQL dump/ import. Decided to just do the cutover so very exciting! Of course, everything probably looks a bit funky. Let me...
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