Recent content by Clownius

I wish :(

Unmanaged i got a cheap TPLink that came with rackmount brackets. For your LAN if your not doing anything tricky it should do the job. Obviously if you want managed for some reason its going to cost more. Unmanaged i have a 16 port version of this. Just sits quietly in the corner and does...

Only 1TB RAM? Heck you may as well start with 3TB if your that crazy and 48SSD's ;)

How can a drive change the ability of a NAS to support multiple drives? To me it just looks like a recommendation on the scale you would look at WD Reds as your drive of choice.

Some of the OEM branded cards lock certain features for a cost like raid 6 yes. Check how it was advertised some of them are not clear what version of the card it is and may mention somewhere is actually an IBM version. Personally i have 6 assorted LSI 9260/1 cards and 2 of them were IBM cross...

You answered your own question on that but yeah the DCS AMD 3 node versions only fit 3 nodes. God knows who wanted that custom setup. Maybe a limitation of the PSU?

I do have the BBU's on mine. I should run some tests with SSD's but i dont have in use currently. Not to mention my boards are all older and run PCIe 2 in any case. Maybe grab a 9271 and compare them.

I have a few 9260's and a 9280 they offer SSD caching as an option in the BIOS thingy. I have not tried it though so cant confirm it works

Fair enough. I was considering some 10GBaseT to run between my HTPc's (2 of them) and my storage server to stop them cluttering up the normal household network. Mainly i want to get away from constantly sorting out HDD's on the HTPC's hence moving everything storage wise to my storage...

Out of interest is there a reason your going for these solutions over a simple 10GBaseT standard cat6/6a cable? I saw 10Gbps dual Ethernet cards for around the $300 mark on ebay. You seem to be getting close to that anyway with the expensive cables and SFP+ modules plus the PCIe cards.

WD Red's have a history of being reliable NAS drives. Drives shucked from external cases have a history of being unreliable cheap green drives. Personally i like my data too much. Removing the drive from the case generally voids the warranty too. So your asking to loose your data and the...

Be really interested to know more about how your powering this thing. I have a spare C6100 node i wouldnt mind putting to use.

If thats really 96GB per node its a damned fine deal. Sell off half the sticks on each node to get some of the $$$ back if its more than you need and maybe even the X5667 and buy L5520's instead or something

The Intel version of the C6100 should support 4 nodes unless it was custom built not to. I have two of them personally with 4 nodes each plus a spare node. The one you linked looks like a custom job built to only support 2 nodes for some reason. It may or may not have other customisations...

That supermicro looks like the sort of thing im after. Thanks