Recent content by Ed.

Hi Philip, strangely enough one of the things I had to do today got cancelled so I managed to rebuild my old PC and found out that the version of firmware on my P822 is V8.32, but as I suspected, the firmware package that I used to update it to that version is not on that desktop's drives and...

Hi Philip, that P822 also ran hot, I ended up putting a fan on top of the PSU to blow air directly on to it to cool it down. Incidentally the new 9362-8I also runs hot. It had reached way past 85C so so I reseated the heat sink, replaced the thermal compound and screwed a small fan directly to...

Hi, just checked and it is not there, the old computer is in bits so unfortunately I can't boot it up to check what version it is. I will be running it the next couple of weeks as I have to scrub the drives to sell off the bits and pieces so if I do find the version number, I will send you a...

Hi Philip, can't tell you exactly as it was quite a while ago (2019) and I recently bought a new PC including 5 x 6TB drives drives and 9362-8I RAID card. Having said that I will have a look to see if I kept a copy of the firmware on my current drives.

Unfortunately I have had to give up on running a type 1 hypervisor, it appears that my new system has too many incompatible hardware bits for them to install properly. I tried a couple of different types and then gave up. So I ended up installing Server 2022 and I have installed VMware Pro...

Thanks for all the replies, this new box is way cooler than my last one, so heat isn't much of an issue, I was just curious as to why they set up the top radiator fans in the way they did, I just added another 4 x 140m fans to this case so a total of 7 pulling air in and 1 out, so the case...

Yep, me too. I also just get really annoyed when the manufacturers make really powerful hardware and only provide drivers for WIN 10 and 11 plus a couple of others but none for Server 20xx, at least the included wifi 6 connection is working under Server 2019 otherwise I would not even be able...

What's the general consensus for another Type 1 hypervisor that will run 1 or 2 VM's and not require a technical knowledge of Linux and so forth, and free would be good! I am thinking of a Win 11 and a Server 2019 or 2022 VM. (not at the same time.) Thanks.

Need some opinions, the time had come to finally buy a computer as my old one was 11 years old. So I went to the local IT shop and ordered one to my specs, now that I have had some time to play around with it, I am questioning the direction of the air flow through the top mounted AIO radiator...

Hi everyone, Been doing a heap of reading and have come up none the wiser so thought that I would ask the collective members for your opinions so here is a bit of the background. I have an ageing ASUS P9X79-E WS computer with a HP H241 RAID card to run my LTO-5 External Tape drive with a...

I am just wandering if the fact that I setup up that drive as a single drive RAID O was the reason it failed or just a faulty hard SSD.

Hi everyone, just after some input: I have a spare 9267-8i card with 512MB cache, I connected it to a 2 year old 512GB Samsung Evo 560 SSD and used the Avago MegaRAID software wizard to create a single RAID O drive with no redundancy. I primarily wanted to used that card just to use the 512mb...

I bought an external LTO-5 external tape drive for $200 last year, and HP's policy is you have you have a service contract before they will let you download the latest Firmware which would most likely cost more that I paid for the drive itself. Tandberg, Quantum, IBM allow you to download that...

Hi , just wondering if anyone knows anything about IBM XIV 4TB SAS drives, are they a standard SAS drive that will work on any Generic SAS controllers, or do they require dedicate IBM controllers/harware and also specific software/firmware to initialize and format them. Thanks. Cheers.

Success at last, after many attempts I managed to finally get the correct firmware from the HP site for the P822 card and it upgraded, and also now works in my system, it managed to initialize a pair of SATA drives and also a set of 5 x 2GB SAS drives which are now set as a RAID 5 with a spare...