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Hello, I'm also looking at a gigabit switch, I will buy a managed later on but right now I only need one to build my home network.
SO I have been looking at D-Link DGS-1024D and Cisco SR2016T-NA the D-link looks nice, since its cheaper and I get 24 ports instead of 16 but I have so bad experience with gigabit networking and cheap equipment, who barely deliver more then fast ethernet. And since I don't know much of D-link I have only heard much bad of their home class equipment so I have no idea how their business class equipment work.
I hope someone have any experience with any of them
I also found D-LINK DGS-1210-24 really cheap in Norway, which probably is easiest.
Yes and I really feel like using 120-125 MB/s
Is it possible to set they up so they use multiplier up-links?
SO I have been looking at D-Link DGS-1024D and Cisco SR2016T-NA the D-link looks nice, since its cheaper and I get 24 ports instead of 16 but I have so bad experience with gigabit networking and cheap equipment, who barely deliver more then fast ethernet. And since I don't know much of D-link I have only heard much bad of their home class equipment so I have no idea how their business class equipment work.
I hope someone have any experience with any of them
I also found D-LINK DGS-1210-24 really cheap in Norway, which probably is easiest. Yes and I really feel like using 120-125 MB/s
Is it possible to set they up so they use multiplier up-links?
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That is such a waste of money for unmanaged switches.
You can get a web managed Dell 2724 for less than $100. I have a 2724 at my house and a 2716 at my parents vacation home. Odditory recently bought one so maybe he will chime in with his experience. Also look at the HP 1810-24 its a web Managed switch IIRC and it goes for around $150 and is highly recommended on other sites i frequent.
If you were willing to spend a little bit more then you could grab a Dell 5324 Managed switch off ebay for $200.
You can get a web managed Dell 2724 for less than $100. I have a 2724 at my house and a 2716 at my parents vacation home. Odditory recently bought one so maybe he will chime in with his experience. Also look at the HP 1810-24 its a web Managed switch IIRC and it goes for around $150 and is highly recommended on other sites i frequent.
If you were willing to spend a little bit more then you could grab a Dell 5324 Managed switch off ebay for $200.
I just won a Dell 2724 yesterday on ebay for $81 (+15 for shipping, but we live 20 minutes from each other so free pickup!) I doubt you could get free pickup for an ebay auction in norway, but i can attest that they are affordable. plus its a production pull from a business that went under and i'm fairly confident that i'm not being lied to
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I'm looking at this RAID kontroller and it said, it only support 64KB stripes, is this going to be a problem when ZFS is a 128k filesystem (I really don't know what any of these mean)
And I'm still kinda considering Supermicro X8DTH-6F because it only cost me 200 dollar more, it gives me SAS-2 and I get a great opportunity to upgrade my system.
And I'm still kinda considering Supermicro X8DTH-6F because it only cost me 200 dollar more, it gives me SAS-2 and I get a great opportunity to upgrade my system.
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Which RAID controller? Shouldnt matter anyways cause you are not putting the drives in RAID...at least you shouldnt be.
You dont need a RAID controller BTW. There is no point in paying a high price for a RAID controller when something like a BR10i will suffice.
You dont need a RAID controller BTW. There is no point in paying a high price for a RAID controller when something like a BR10i will suffice.
Ok well if you put in IT mode then you are not creating a RAID, and thus not using its striping capabilities.
No its not a problem. Most SATA controllers dont have cache memory either.
Its only for performance. Which wont matter with ZFS because its going to be using your system memory for that.
Its only for performance. Which wont matter with ZFS because its going to be using your system memory for that.
Hello again, I'm ready to order the rest of the parts and then someone tells me that if I have the Supermicro X8DTH-6F with two CPU's it won't increase performance, it will only be a redundant CPU is this true? And if not/if, can I get some sources on it?
The only way you do not get extra performance in that setup with a second CPU is if you do not use applications that can take advantage of the extra threads. The second CPU is not simply a redundant CPU. You can see the second CPU scaling on that motherboard in the dual Xeon X5670 review for example. That review also points out that things like Handbrake x264 encoding and the Windows Experience Index scores do not scale with extra threads/ cores after a point.