Recent content by itronin

It has been entertaining (and educational and nostalgic) to read how this thread has twisted and turned. :D

oh I routinely get 7-10 years on enterprise gear in an enterprise - when its bought new but I'm not thinking about what if 5 years down the road, I simply expect it to work ( unless I'm using vmware :p ). 5-7 when used. I'm just saying for homelab, why think that far out, if it lasts great...

2-3 years is a lifecycle pretty far in the future to be worried about for my homelab, office, or even enterprise in my experience - way too, too many variables and sea change that can occur in that period. and way too much stress for me. I worry about what's just over the horizon, 6 or 12...

Throwback to the mid-late '90's and stacks of headless sparcstation 10's running sunos and penitum 90 PC's running FreeBSD.

that sounds about right.

not saying this thread describes your problem - but you might look here typically you'll want to post smart from the drive (yeah SAS, not gonna report everything, its probably enough and a start) as well as the exact commands and sequence you used.

received, thanks for the storage!

Hows about posting in the WTB forum rather than here. Also recommend you read the sticky in the WTB forum.

Mine were not neutered and also included a note, and an origami helmet. delightful!

Mine arrived yesterday. have not opened it. Also interesting that you received the balls with yours. I'll see if mine were neutered or not. :eek: my previous orders were. :rolleyes:

for me it would also depend on the use case - local storage - pump up the IOPS . Feed the beast. network shared storage - I'd look at my max bandwidth, number of clients, and then the client use case. This method also presumes you have sufficient capacity for your needs regardless of how...

YHPM

My set three has shipped from Japan and arrived in Cali so maybe this week...

anyone want to share a pne3 link on the bay? my search skills seem to be abysmal this evening and the sellers of the tarlin kits that I saved aren't listing it yet.

Edited for correctness! or the third party one from @TheGuyDanish . He designed a nice jbod board and you should already have the expander backplanes so its really just monitoring and power control in the jbod.