Recent content by danwood82

Good shout, I found the BIOS setting, which was already "Auto", but tried "Enabled"... also tried dropping the Windows power profile back to "Balanced" and "Power Saver" which allow Link State Power Management. Alas, it doesn't seem to let the card drop into any lower power state than the...

Well, with it set up and running, the secondary 3090 idles along at 16-17W as expected. It'd be nice if there was an easy way to check power draw when the card is "disabled" in the device managed... I don't imagine it'll be any different - I presume that'd just mean it would fall back to...

Cheers everyone. Yeah, I know modern GPUs typically handle their own power management fairly effectively. Was just wondering if there was a way to explicitly force the card into a fully "parked" state, so it was off-until-needed, rather than leaving it to do its own power management. ...but...

Hey all, Apologies if this isn't quite a home-server topic, but I generally trust getting solid technical information borne of experience over here, instead of the typical "just enough knowledge to be dangerous" responses over on Reddit and the like :). I'm considering leaving an RTX 3090 in...

Thanks for all the suggestions everyone! Lots of great options to consider. I had in fact not seen this. Looks perfect for my needs, given I've already got a bunch of previous images stored. Much thanks!

Oh, nice! That sounds ideal... I'll give it a look! I assume it's relatively straightforward to set it up to do simple, offline drive images? Is there a documentation resource I could read through to get an idea what I need/don't need before starting? (Oh, and can this be used to image an...

Thanks. Looks expensive though... should have specified - this is just for personal use, so can't stretch to enterprise-level prices. Any open-source or home-use-level packages offer this sort of functionality?

Hi all, not sure if this is the best subforum for this. In the past, I've used Clonezilla to make drive backup images, and it works great for fully restoring drives. What I'd like however, is that functionality, but with the possibility to read-only-access the contents of those image files...

Thanks, just wanted to update incase anyone else is messing with this stuff. Because the 10GbE NICs are all direct-links without a hub, I ended up disabling Flow Control and Interrupt Moderation entirely... and combined with 9k Jumbo Frames, sync writes disabled, and the upgrade to SMB 2.1, I...

Right, worked out the laptop thing... incase anyone else is looking for the information - apparently it's an additional security thing they introduced alongside deprecating SMB 1.0... they also denied guest accounts access to 2.1 shares and below. The Group Policy setting is at: Computer...

Urgh... seems Windows is being its usual strange self. I mapped a different drive to the share over the 1GbE link, and it shows that as "Dialect 2.1". Seems there's some stale information attached to the 10GbE adapter that I'm struggling to get rid of. This is all on an older version of...

Hmm, well I've done my rebuild, using OmniOS r151030 and napp-it 18.12w. All is well, except for some glaring network issues: For some reason, my 10GbE adapter seems to have blistering fast speeds reading from the server, but the write speeds have dropped to about half of a 1GbE connection...

Neat, good to know. Well, I think that covers everything (and saves me some unnecessary expenditure :-)) Thanks again for all your help and work!

Will a pool auto-balance if extra mirror's are added in later on?

Many thanks as ever gea! When you say "a fast pool layout" - I've been running 12 disks as 6 mirror pairs striped. I presume that's the best layout I can use for performance while maintaining redundancy? Also, just to double-check - the way to set up a stripe-of-mirror-pairs is to create a...