Recent content by Bjorn Smith

I think you can install whatever you want on it, since manual show ONIE - so you should be able to install whatever as far as I understand - provided you can find an OS that works on that switch

Probably noisy, but power hungy depends on what you put in it - it seems to have POE capabilities which is most likely why it has such "big" power supplies. Its 40mm fans industrial, so it will be noisy. The fans in the power supplies might be the least noisy of the bunch, since there are fan...

Too bad you dont have power supplies for these - otherwise I could have been tempted. They would make a nice firewall or media player

It might be possible to add a job that does it either on start up - or every n minutes (which would be non-ideal) Try going into config mode and type job Also I found this while googling your question, that you can also try: "mlnx os run command on startup"...

I think the best way to sell this - is to part out out. Disks and Ram should fetch a little - as a system - its ancient - R710 came out on 2009, so its a 16 year old architecture - and with that it has to be extremely cheap for someone to make it worth having it powered on.

Surely scrubs should fix that right? Since data is being read?

I am also concerned - and if I could afford it I would buy used enterprise drives intead, but used SATA SSD drives used are not cheap these days :)

If I can get a consistent 100MB/s write speed across a pool of two or four drives I will be happy. I hope that is possible with drives bigger than yours

So you use them for something not "backup" like?

Thats why I use ZFS, since that is part of the package :-)

Hi, I am considering exchanging my spinner mirror with a SATA SSD mirror. (2x12TB WD NAS disks) -> 2x8TB SATA or 4x4TB SATA - whatever is cheapest. I exclusively use it for storing multimedia files and for storing backup's. Meaning its mostly reads and writes from time to time, but not...

While understandable, it sucks they don't ship to europe :-)

Hi, My initial thought are that this is too expensive, but perhaps if you expand on the specs a bit it becomes more reasonable. i.e. What model of Xeon What type of RAM and number of modules. What type of NIC's/Speed/number of ports But my guess is that you will never get this sold at that...

You should probably specify exactly what type of RAM - otherwise people have to do your work for you and look up the motherboard and find out what ECC type.

From a range to no noise to yo mamma, how loud is this?