Recent content by amp88

The instructions on how to download, compile, and run setblocksize are here on github. That's the guide I successfully used ~3 years ago on a bunch of drives in an EMC KTN-STL3 enclosure.

I wonder if there's any output available through the journal. Can you run the following command in your Proxmox host shell, which will return the last 50 messages? journalctl -n 50

The user in this reddit post includes the same information as displayed in CPU-Z above. The "Name" field says 2699 v4, but the "Specification" field lists 2696 v4, and the TDP field shows 150W (whereas the 2699 v4 has a 145W TDP). I can understand why this would be confusing, as appears to have...

If you're using mdraid and you're able to manually configure it, you may wish to investigate the use of the write-mostly feature. Using this, your write speed will still be limited to the slowest member in the mirror, but your read performance should be that of the fastest member (your SSD in...

I never did, unfortunately. I'm still using them as 3TB drives in a backup KTN-STL3 enclosure, and they've been trouble free for the last ~10 months.

Yeah, in that case it/they should perform really well then, with significantly lower power consumption too. As long as you're aware of the worst-case performance and your workload avoids it for the (vast) majority of the time then it's not a huge issue.

Keep in mind the 870 QVO uses QLC NAND, so its performance characteristics might be a deal-breaker for some. The AnandTech review (of the 1TB and 4TB versions) might be worth a read. edit: Tom's Hardware also has some benchmarks for the 8TB version in its review.

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Yeah, I was just using that as an example, intending for you to take a look and see if there were any other bundles that were a better deal for you. Obviously if you know about the limitation with the H11 and you're happy with it then go for it. It certainly makes more sense than dropping around...

You can get bundle deals from China which are quite good value. For example (just the first hit, I have no affiliation with this seller or any others): https://www.ebay.com/itm/175430838962 ~1000 USD for an H12SSL-i + 7402P + 16GB of RAM.

Yeah, 2nd gen EPYC would be a massive step forward in raw performance, in addition to providing other benefits like many more PCIe lanes (128 Gen4 for 2nd gen EPYC vs 40 Gen3 for the E5 v4, per CPU). One thing to keep in mind if you're looking at an EPYC system is that you should look for a...

My 2 cents: this is an OK deal for these specific CPUs, but bad value anyway. Check this comparison between the 2696 v4 and 2680 v4; the 14 core 2680 v4 is ~10% slower in single core (thanks to the 300MHz lower single core turbo) and ~27% slower in multicore (despite having only 64% of the...

Yeah, the PM9A3 does pretty well there.

Have you tested a PM983? Should be ~10 watts max.

The drives in that server aren't U.2 (they're half height PCIe), but even for U.2 drives 25W write would be quite high. Compare that to, for example, the 1.92TB Samsung PM983 U.2, which delivers comparable performance to the P3600 at less than half the power consumption for a write workload.