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4x mini PCIe to SFF-8087 converter (yea really)
I saw this today: Minerva S4025A Mini SAS SFF 8087 to mSATA SSD x4 Adapter with SFF 8087 Cable | eBay How awesome is this thing?... 4x mini PCIe to SFF-8087 converter (yea really)
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ASUS P9A-I/C2550/SAS/4L
Hoping folks have had the time to see the ASUS P9A-I series. Rumor has it that at least one version is coming to North America. Also, rumor has it I may be picking a ASUS P9A-I/C2550/SAS/4L up...
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4x M.2 SSDs in a 3.5" Drive bay
I was looking at the mSATA to SFF-8087 thread and came upon this: Mini SAS SFF 8087 to M 2 x 4 with 3 5 inch Frame | eBay Likely only SATA speeds but it is certainly an interesting way to use a 3.5"...
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Silverstone DS380: ITX 8x SAS/Sata Hotswap
SilverStone Technology Co., Ltd.- DS380 This would be an amazing SFF ZFS build. Looking at the pictures, if you went with a FlexATX or DC/Pico PSU you might have room for an extended ITX board such as...
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Feature added: Recent Posts
I had a great feature request on the forums to add a "Recent Posts" feature. The New Posts shows unread but the "Recent Posts" should show all recent posts, even if you are the one posting. Here is a...
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Wanted cheap: PCI-E SAS HBA
Looking for a simple HBA I can drop in my testing workstation 2012 R2 to test various drives,
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MikroTik CRS226-24G-2S+ (IN=Desktop RM=Rackmount)
It appears that we lost the post that discussed this bargain model switch, so I thought I should write up something to get it started. I think it's quite a good product for the right usage. MikroTik...
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What excites you about servers and the future of server technology?
I thought this would be an interesting discussion as we are all enthusiasts here for server stuff. For me I'm most excited about virtualization. I like how hardware is becoming more of a commodity like...
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ashift=12 as default
Hi to all I am new here, just try a search, and found nothing about that, so, the question : How can i default poool creation to ashift=12 in mapp-it ? Thanks in advance ....
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Sophos UTM Build
Build’s Name: rednails Operating System/ Storage Platform: Sophos UTM 9 Free Edition CPU: Atom 330 Dual Core Motherboard: Supermicro X7SLA-H Chassis: Supermicro SC502L-200B Drives: 60 GB Kingston...
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napp-IT all-in-one/vmxnet3s jumbo frames?
Is there a working solution to get jumbo frames working on napp-it inside a ESXI host? I tried one solution, to change drivers to solaris 11 (the ones in the d/l is 10?), but then the SMB performance...
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Intel Avoton C2750 Benchmarks - Supermicro A1SAi-2750F
Keeping a bit of a live blog but only have 2x 2GB 1333MHz ECC SODIMMs (that work) at this point. Windows Benchmarks Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (x64) Configuration Supermicro A1SAi-2750F with Intel C2750...
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Green vs Red redux.
So, I see WD have released their new 5TB and 6TB Green drives. I'm still convinced these drives are the same mechanically as the Reds, and a few minutes with WDIDLE3.exe turns off/down the idle timer....
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Warm? 24-bay Supermicro 846 full of 2tb drives
I found a deal locally here. A guy has 3x of these Supermicro 846-series (expander version SATA 3G) 24x bays full of 2tb Seagate NS drives LSI/3Ware RAID controller Single Xeon E5620 12gb RAM...
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m1015 - feature key, firmware, and SED troubles
About 18 months ago I picked up an m1015 based on one of the articles here speaking rather highly of them(and I've used several other serveraid cards in the past with good results), along with 4 3tb...
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screws for sun microsystems 2.5" trays
Any idea what type of screws I would buy for these particular trays? 2 5" SAS 341 0586 01 02 Hard Drive Tray Caddy for Sun Fire X4100 X4200 X4100M2 | eBay I've got four of them and no screws :|
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STH Global Server Farm
I was thinking since everyone here has their own home lab. Why dont we together commit into global server farm. We can make it into a big pool by contributing a VM each and create something useful....
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2u 4 node lga2011 intel server 1200$
Found another potential interesting one. A 2u intel server with 4 dual socket lga2011 nodes. One downside I see with this one is that it is only 4 Dimms per CPU so not so great of memory density They...
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recommended raid card for file server
Hey guys, I am building a new server for my office. It is a glorified file/sql server. I will be virtualizing with Exsi. I will probably add a SSD cache drive to take advantage of burst. I have an...
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Supermicro noise levels
Hello all, I wanted to share some insight here, and maybe get some feedback. I contacted Supermicro support about system noise levels. The case I am intersted in the CSE-836TQ-R500B here: Supermicro |...
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