Recent content by elhoim

Hello, I was thinking of building a server like the one describe here: https://www.servethehome.com/building-the-improbable-hyper-converged-nas-with-the-silverstone-cs01-hs/2/ The only thing being that instead of an AIC NVMe card I would like to use a RAID card for the hard drives since there...

Plus it will take lots of PCIe slots, 8 if I count correctly. How can I get an idea of the queue depth?

The company I work for has a framework contract with Lenovo for standardized procurement. Would you have other RAID cards to recommend or other SSDs that have better $/IOPS & $/GB ratios?

At work i need to send a hardware request for getting a storage system for an ArcSight ESM server. Given some rules of thumb from ArcSight professional services, we need to aim for at least 200k+ write IOPS. The goal is to have at least 7TB useable with RAID-10 and to have some capacity to grow...

For my home lab, since I work in IT security, i will try to replicate an enterprise environment: active directory, file share, multiple workstations (winXP, win8, etc...) to be able to test things.

Build’s Name: Cthulhu's Lab Operating System/ Storage Platform: ESXi CPU: 2 x SIX-CORE XEON E5649 2.53GHz 12MB L3 cache 5.86 GT/s FSB 32nm 80W Processors Motherboard: 8-DTH-iF Chassis: SC847E16 (36x 3.5" disks trays!) Drives: 16*WD RED NAS 6TB (WD60EFRX) RAM: 128GB RAM DDR3 ECC Add-in Cards...