Recent content by Firebug24k

Deal dead, up to $93.50/ea

X550-T2

If you can get yours to route better than roughly 3GB/sec up/down with PFSense/OPNSense let me know - I can't push it past there with my m720q.

Luckily I didn't have to return anything, but they didn't ever answer any of my emails about shipping status until the drives magically showed up. I'd file a dispute with your CC or paypal if they're not answering, that should get their attention.

It's working great with V1s!

Nah, it wouldn't help, there are no publically available BIOS updates for these systems (not to mention no manuals, drivers, or anything else).

@RageBone Great call on the V1's - fired right up! Thanks!

I'll take 'em, PM incoming.

I *think so* - I dug up an old manual and found a screenshot of a v2 post screen, so I was guessing that's what it wanted. But I'll grab some V1s they're almost free nowadays anyway. Thanks for the idea! Edit: Added a photo

Anyone got experience with old DDN equipment? I've picked up a couple of massive 60 disk top loader units that actually have little Xeon "canisters" in the back that power the whole thing, but I can't get them to post, nor is there much info about them on the web. Here's what they are...

Been waiting on that GPU flood for years now lol

Yeah, I wasn't super pleased. They all had wiped SMART data, manufactured 2013-2014 era.

I run a long SMART test, I dunno if that's good enough or not but it seems to catch most of the drives that I buy w/wiped SMART data that is hiding defects. Had 10/40 4TB drives I bought on Ebay last month fail this way and had to be sent back.

Eh, even with overhead you're looking at more like 1200MB/sec. And there's nothing you can do to make it faster, that's the downside of SAS vs NVME Edit: I'm wrong, I didn't think about dual port, you can do that w/appropriate hardware & software support as said below. You won't improve...

Yes, I have a highpoint one of these and the PLX chips put out a TON of heat