Recent content by Lost-Benji

I am and laways have been a Windblows guy, just throwingt he cat intot he pigeons here. Get rid of SS, MS sucks at storage options, end of story. Use a HW RAID card, buy a spare if needed and enjoy.

H700's work fine with big drives. You have already rulled out issue with other drives detecting. Put the 1015 back in and ensure its in HBA IT mode, nuke the drives (a few docos in and around here with 520n drive formats that need converting to the standard 512n) then enjoy. As for the H700...

I should have written my post better. I don't use PF for my clients, see a few of my compitition doing so and fail miserably. I have/was using it in my own lab / DC as here in Aus, I have a faster connection than most of 100/100 (screaming hey.... NOT) Client side, most struggle to get 25-50Mbps...

Server Vs Desktop, easy, use the desktop for junk use / daily driver with desktop OS. Use a server for just that, A SERVER. Suggesting anything else suggests novices. Stop comparing chalk and cheese.

They hate humid air. Blow the PSU's and backplane out completely with compressed air. Then use a hair-dryer on low heat to blow through the PSU's to warm them up. Keep your hand in the air stream before them (after the hair-dryer) to ensure the air is warm and not to hot. Once they are warm...

The chassis will suck about 50W without even a single drive in it. Drives are SAS and will draw about 7-9W each, adds up quickly. As for spin-down, these bad-boys are designed to hang off some pretty big enterprise servers, spin-down is not normal needed and if you have noticed, you may also...

So, here is my little bit: After recently playing around again with pfSense, it was determined that it hasn't improved since I last used it. Now, I am not a network genius but I know enough to survive and get through my day while keeping my clients happy. Sadly, PF has the same issue as MicroTik...

Any cheap LSI based RAID card will do nicely. Otherwise, if just media storage, StorageSpaces is an option, slow write speeds though.

The cables in question are SFF-8088, there is no difference between the double-O and the Diamonds physically. The circles are the uplink to the host, the diamonds are downlink to the next chassis if daisy-chaining. Take note what card you are connecting to as well, not all drives are dual-channel.

Nope, not a DOC units, they are Line-Interactive. I think you need to look at this more relistically. A load of only 1KW is quite low and just silly have 6KVA holding it. The use of a 2 or 3KVA UPS is much smarter and also works with plugs and leads. No need for hard-wiring. Battery capacity is...

I use warm drives. A coupld that stay in the main server and I add when I find a failing drive. Then move to chassis after repaired. Nope, I have 3x 16-drive DAS chassis, all full of 3TB drives with movies and TV, no need to waste SSD's or the time to get tiering working. If I need that sort of...

Your BIOS is not set correctly. Reset it, only change the boot order if required and let it boot. The C-states on the CPU along with other tweaking options play havock.

2016 has some controls over doing updates but still has some Windows 10 bloat like bloody XBOX crap. 2019 has less update control and still the same Win10 shite. Both work fine otherwise, I personally run 2016 as I have keys for it and no need for 2019 and M$ antics with updates.

Master Browser is very much still in/on Windows 10, it is makes a mess too like previous versions. Go to all machines, kill Master Browser, only have it on the DC. Make sure your DNS resolves the servers and their IP's. SMB 1.0 for older networked systems and/or other genders of OS's that are...

Only just seen this. Was going to say, too late, already done and doing this. - Each array should be on same physical chassis, DO NOT SPAN OVER TO OTHER CHASSIS! You can keep some global Hot-Spares in another chassis, just mark them so easy to ID when you need to swap. - Double-Parity for...