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This. SuperMicro might not have a ton of bells and whistles on their boards (I'd like some with DVI/HDMI) but they usually just work and stay that way, even when a new OS comes out. I've had consistently bad luck with Asus on that front over the years. All those extras they tack on end up...

This diagram was insightful: http://serverfault.com/questions/11633/whats-the-bandwidth-and-form-factor-for-pcie-x1-x4-x8-and-x16 Yes, if you're talking to 8+ drives directly then doing it through a 1x port is going to be less than ideal. It'd be less of a problem if you were dealing with an...

Is there any way to use a regular PCIe card in an mPCIe slot? Then you could use something a SAS adapter and some SATA breakout cables to connect up to 8 drives (or more externally). This would seem smarter than using multiple 2-port mPCIe adapters.

So what if I'm running OI on a dual processor Xeon setup? 2 CPUs, 4 cores each, in ESXi 5? Any suggestions on how what to use for number of vCPU and vCores with an OI setup? It'll mostly be handling CIFS shares.

I'm using the latest install of OI and napp-it (setup and upgraded yesterday). I've got some WD 2TB EARS drives; one connected to an areca 1260 and the other to an M1015. When I create a pool on the one connected to the areca it's set up with an ashift of 9. When I create another pool with...