Recent content by mervincm

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    Topton Jasper Lake Quad i225V Mini PC Report

    I only wanted to get the i226 to make 100% sure I was not getting an older board with the defective first gen i225 NICs 255can$ vs 155 can$ yeesh, that is quite a big difference ...
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    Topton Jasper Lake Quad i225V Mini PC Report

    OK, barebones it is. 55 can$ will get me 250G adata NVME and 8GB gskill SODIMM. Any idea how to contact CW customer survice to request they include the fan for a few extra $$$
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    Topton Jasper Lake Quad i225V Mini PC Report

    Having never purchased china direct before, advice would be appreciated. After 94 pages it seems the right purchase for a standalone PFSENSE /OPNSENSE box is the 4 i226 interface model with the v5 motherboard, and the 5105 CPU, specifying that I want the optional fan included and to purchase it...
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    Canada FS - 5 x 9211-8i SAS SATA 8-port PCI-E / 10 x Mini SFF-8087 cables

    Do you know if they are flashed to current firmware, or with the "IT" mode that is best for truenas etc? Are they LSI branded / take LSI firmware? maybe something else? I an in Alberta, and could use one right away, but it needs to be something I can use in my ASUS X299 system.
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    Lenovo 03X3834 LSI 6Gbps 16 Port PCI-E SAS Expander Card $13.88

    That makes sense. sorta like a port multiplier on the SATA side. That explains the extra connectors, those must be Iinput.
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    Lenovo 03X3834 LSI 6Gbps 16 Port PCI-E SAS Expander Card $13.88

    what is an expander card? Is this functional as a 16 port sas / sata HBA?
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    Mellanox ConnectX-2 EN and Windows 10?

    What is the best version of the driver to be used in Windows 10 now in Dec 2020? With the move to Nvidia, I don't see the driver, and Windows installed 5.50.14695.0. (2019)
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    10g Home NAS Setup

    yup. Veeam endpoint backup for windows is awesome. set it up, configure how many days worth of backups you want to keep, and let it be.
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    10g Home NAS Setup

    Also a good home free NAS OS is openmediavault. it read/writes 400-500MB/sec with a 10gig network, to a 4 DISK RAID 5, and my windows 10 desktop. To / from the NVME drive in the NAS I can get 1GB/sec (all on large files) https://forum.openmediavault.org/
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    10g Home NAS Setup

    For folks that want simple, a switch makes everything much simpler. if you don't need ful 10 gig then 2.5gig cards are cheap and the 99$ 5 port qnap switch makes everything fast and easy. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1585104-REG/qnap_qsw_1105_5t_us_qsw_1105_5t_5_port_2_5gbps.html
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    SMB vs NFS vs iSCSI - Share performance on Windows 10

    Thank you so so much for this. I have a system right now running Xpenology and was looking at more "legitimate" options, FreeNas being one of them. This is what I see today from Windows 10 to with my existing storage system i5-8600K,64GB, Intel 10G, 1500MTU 80% full 7x8TB Ironwolf in R5...
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    Windows 10 10gbe keeps freezing machine

    It comes with using cards designed for high airflow servers in low airflow systems. I have even had to mount a 120mm fan blowing down on my 10 gig intel NIC and my LSI HBA. Using a DAC cable or SFP+ fibre transceivers will gen less heat than any cat5/6 options. Using an old/hot chipset w...
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    1U Supermicro Server 6x 10GBE RJ45 X10SLH-LN6TF LGA 1150 H3 X10SLH-N6-ST031

    pfsense on mine runs in lowest power modes (800 Mhz) virtually always, and my 1 /5 /15 min CPU usage is often under 1% when I check. Idle describes it to me :) I have 940 mbps fiber based internet. Blue fox has it right IMO, idle power consumption is what really matters here and most CPU in the...
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    Windows 10 10gbe keeps freezing machine

    have you tried a fan on your PC's 10GBE NIC? I know mine was flakey till I put a little 40mm fan on its heat sync. was only about 10$, and plugged into a spare fan header on the systemboard
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    $79.75: 960GB Micron 5100 Pro

    That was my error, the file name was confusing. it was indeed 71 that I applied.