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define "normal" cases :D I have 3 big towers, all from Lian-Li and with different sizes. With rackmount you have more prefictable sizes: width is always 17.75" wide or high (19" with rackmount ear/rails/etc.) and a multiple of 1U in height (or width) with usually a max depth of 90 cm. I prefer...

The 846 is a really great chassis, especially if it's a "B" or newer version (support for two ssds in the rear and I think a few more mounting points for mainboards): the pdb can be swapped to support newer and more efficient power supplies, there are sas3 expander or sas3 expander + 8x nvme...

What limitation/overhead specifically? One of our companies customer runs their entire infrastructure on windows server/hyper-v since server 2008 and they are pretty happy with it (even when it's a little bit pricey)...

That looks like a beefy server to me (at least cpu and memory wise). How do users describe the "bad performance"? How do the users connect? Through a lan? How is the server connected to the network? 1 or 10GBE, faster? From home/remote via vpn? What storage is the system using? HDDs? SSDs...

To get data from port A to port B (switching) :D But seriously it's about having more up to date software compared to running a vendor os/firmware that is using outdated software (for example openssh server with known exploits), be it Sonic, Opewrt or other "nos" that might have slightly...

"Efficient" could mean different things to different people; I think my server rack with 1x fileserver/nas, 1x ups, 2x switches (one for 1GBE/POE and one for 40GBE) at around 450Watt is efficient while others here in the forums try to shave off 2-3Watt from their 60Watt "nas" :D...

The new smartraid controllers support nvme/are tri mode capable, not sure if it works with maxcache though. If the prices comes down (below 1k € I might try it :D)

Write applification is the additiona data that has to be written/transfered becuase every layer in the stack has a specific size it can handle/use. I'll take an example from windows +refs (64KByte chunks) + hardware raid (3x devices, raid 5, 32Byte strips): Application: writes in n bytes...

In my experience mainboards with >16 pcie x4 port use a proprietary formfactor for specific chassis. ASRock Rack GENOAD8X-2T/BCM is the only mainboard that has a ton of pcie slots for retimer/redriver cards... U.2/3 ssds can have ports configured 1 x4 or 2 x2 for high availability or...

- "Free" text fields - not just an hardware selling platform - english instead of chinese - automatically generated? - typo? (description say 16TB to 4TB, so probably a 16GB drive)

What are the hard requirements? Because a lot of the stuff you have posted in different threads looks unrealistic to me (most definitely for a diy system)

How large are these files? Gigabytes? Terybytes? 24/7/365? Does it have to be real time (high write performance in terms of GByte/s) or can it be asynchronous? Large ssds have usually "low" write performance (see the solidigm 122 TByte ssd with 3.2GByte/s...

And not to forget "paper launches"

Not sure what exactly you want to know :D On many "older" supermicro backpolanes there are fan headers, here from the 836A backplane: I assume that they were added to make jbod configurations (no mainboard/fan controlling logic) possible. If I remember it correctly from the supermicro FAQs the...

That Post was made Like 6 years ago IT got this week a completly new 0.10 Firmware Version