Recent content by AU8830

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    8TB Sun/hgst drive showing as 7.9TB (and not 8.0TB like others)

    I recently bought some Sun-branded HGST HUH728080AL5200 8TB drives (firmware indicates model as H7280A520SUN8.0T with firmware version P901) and also ran into them being identified as 7.86TB capacity, rather than 8.0TB. I initially thought that they just needed to be formatted to 512 rather than...
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    GIGABYTE MB10 Datto Motherbaord Xeon D-1521 with I/O Shield - $130 + shipping

    Just chiming in to add another voice. I had one of these in the UK, still in the original NAS enclosure. It worked fine for about 3 months, but one day I powered it on and it was showing the same behaviour as everyone reported here - i.e. BMC responsive, but nothing else. I removed the board...