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IBM G8124E - 24port 10GbE switches
Does anyone have much experience with these or are aware? One of the vendors that I purchase often from just posted a bunch and the price is right for a project at work with 6 computers. I'm just am...
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C6100 xs23-ty3 Node workstation (pinouts etc)
Made this thread for those who are looking into running a C6100 xs23-ty3 node outside the rack chassis. I also might do one as I've extra node and LiLi PC-A06B chassis I could use for it HOW TO...
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Interesting ITX Socket G2 (laptop sandy) Dual Intel NIC, vPro: $55 shipped
Forgot to pass this on, found out about it on pfsense forum. Specs here I believe the one for sale is the dual intel nic QM67 version as it has the LVDS connectors and such.... Interesting ITX Socket...
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Linux on top of Hyper-V , HDD Passthrough , Misleading Disk Labels ?
Hi . I might be a bit crazy but I'm running my ZFS file server on top of Hyper-V : ) I already moved my ~5TB worth of data there , and everything seems rock stable . Using Hyper-V's Internal Switch , I...
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Supermicro X7DBE+ stopped booting, IPMI sensors all off!
Hmmmm so the enclosure I purchased from UnixSurplus a few weeks ago was working fine until this morning. Yesterday I initiated a memtest that lasted all night long. This morning I stopped it since it...
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Silverstone DS380 / DS380B - $149.99
I am about to take the plunge on a new NAS enclosure. The Silverstone DS380 (model number DS380B since I guess it's black for B) I think is the winner over the U-NAS NSC-800. U-NAS NSC-800 = $199.99 +...
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WD RED: Possible refresh soon?
So I've been in the market to build a server, and I had the part list ready to go except, how I was going to stock the thing with DATA drives? I wanted to go $200 MAX per 4TB drive, and I settled on...
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PERC H200 cables for C2100 chassis
Hi, I just got a Dell C2100 with PERC H200 RAID card without the cables to connect to the 12-drive backplane. Does anyone know the part number for H200 cables for C2100 chassis? Is there an alternative...
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IBM M5015 overheating due to bad resistor soldering
So after reading everything on this form about the assorted LSI based controllers, I picked up an IBM M5015 and battery on eBay. When I first tested it out, in my old server (which is an Intel SC5299-E...
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My Home Lab
Been browsing the forum for a while, decided it was time to join and share my home lab. I am a Systems Engineer by trade and do quite a bit of small/medium business architecting for their...
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LSI MegaCLi (preboot CLi),StoreCLi, MegaSCU, MegaREC, SAS2flash and MegaOEM...
Utilites Download DOS Put on Bootable DOS USB or CD Windows Run 'Command' prompt in Adminstrator mode and then run the utilities MegaCLI SAS RAID Management Tool Ver 8.07.07 Dec 19, 2012 (c)Copyright...
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Ex AMD Fanboy switching to Intel.
AMD's new FX chips suck unless your encoding. I'm currently using a AMD 990FX chipset MB and a 8 core processor and it is sluggish for everything but encoding media. The Phenom II worked better, but...
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Does anyone know what 5TB drive is in here?
I was looking for 4TB wd reds when I saw 5TB drives at shockingly low prices: The $189 Seagate option - Amazon.com: Seagate Expansion USB 3.0 5TB Desktop External Hard Drive (STBV5000100): Computers...
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For Sale: Western Digital RED 3tb drives (5)
Hi fellow STH'ers, I just upgraded my array to 4tb drives and so I'm selling 5 3tb wd red drives. They were only used for about 6-12 months in a home server doing light duty. They were powered on 24/7....
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Backing up with ZFS Send
I like some redundancy to my stuff, and just because I have disk redundancy on a ZFS box, that's not enough! Remember boys and girls, you're only as good as your last backup. Local Snapshot with Send...
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How to fill up a hard drive and exercise it at the same time. Comments?
I was Googling and found a neat little batch file to fill and exercise a hard drive or array: 1.) Copy the following lines to Notepad and then save it as a file called t.bat on the drive(s) to test....
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For Sale: Server and Networking Parts
Upgrading home environment and I have stuff sitting around that my wife wants me to get rid of..lol. *E5-2640v2 (8C/16T 2.0GHZ) - I got these during a server upgrade. The CPUs were replaced right when...
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For Sale: Western Digital RED 3tb drives (5) for $500 free shipping
Hi fellow STH'ers, I just upgraded my array to 4tb drives and so I'm selling 5 3tb wd red drives. They were only used for about 6-12 months in a home server doing light duty. They were powered on 24/7....
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Cheap way to get 10gbe
Currently have dell 6224 And 6248s 1gbe switches. Sas hoping of a way to link a few servers using 10gbe.
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'May'
Build’s Name: May Operating System/ Storage Platform: Solaris Express 11 w/ VBox Server 2008R2 CPU: Xeon x3430 Motherboard: Intel S3420GPLC (Grr at no KVM IPMI) Chassis: Norco RPC-4224 Drives: 160Gb...
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