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I was really agonizing over pulling the trigger on this deal as well, but I think I'm going to wait for the 4TBs to drop a little more. Hopefully the fact that the 3TB models are starting to show up on sale is a signal that there's going to be a general price drop soon.

Has anyone successfully mounted a CIFS share from OpenIndiana on 13.04? The symptom is that when you try to do a mount.cifs on a share from an OI server, you get an error message like this: mount error(5): Input/output error Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) Here...

You hit the nail on the head. The LSI 9211-8i is what you would be looking for if you wanted the most trouble-free plug-and-play experience. A fully LSI-supported, retail-boxed 9211-8i is over $300, however, so that's why there has been such a strong incentive to look for deals on rebadged...

While I completely agree on Supermicro build quality compared to Norco, I'm not convinced about the value proposition of the extra accessories necessarily. In my experience, neither SM nor Norco, straight out of the box, are suitable for use outside of a machine room or data center (this is...

FYI, I've been reading about a lot of problem reports with this update. The major one seems to be that the drive will work for a few days then suddenly stop being detected by the BIOS. Also the firmware updater doesn't support UEFI BIOSes, so you're supposed to find a machine with an old BIOS...

It could be a lot of things. In opening the SSD's case, maybe you grounded something, which caused some bit of corrupted NVRAM to clear itself (kind of like resetting the CMOS on a motherboard), which allowed the SSD controller to boot properly again. Or there could be a cold solder joint or...

OCZ-based anything makes me nervous, whether RAID or not. Though I've had very good luck with Intel, Crucial, and Samsung SSDs, there still appears to be wide variability between manufacturers, particularly the second-tier ones like OCZ, Kingston, etc. that don't manufacture their own flash.

I experimented with the Hyper-V 2008R2 standalone back when I was running WHS, and I concur that it was a huge chore to get it configured, especially without AD. Not only is there no GUI, but for anyone accustomed to UNIX-style administration, the Microsoft shell commands are like a completely...

I don't remember if OI has Samba, but most people probably use the CIFS service built into the kernel anyway. I believe it's still on a pretty old version of the SMB protocol, like SMB 1

I think I solved my problem. First, I tried installing my fan board with 3 120mm fans. This didn't help the System Temp one bit, but at least my hard drives were running cooler. Then, based on the observation that whenever the System Temp shot up to 75C+, the CPU temp also would report...

The freebsd box has the same LSI 2008 controller, but it has only one of them. The Norco box has about 6 more drives in it than the freebsd box, but they are green drives. I'd guess 6 green drives plus another LSI 2008 under moderate load would add maybe 50W? Also I don't have the midplane...

I'm currently in the middle of a large (multi-terabyte) rsync between two ZFS servers. The source server is using a Supermicro X8SIL-F / Xeon X3440 and is in a Norco 4020 case with the stock fans exhausting out the back. It's not the best ventilated case in the world, but the two rear fans...

The PNY has a fan. Here's a picture: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133356 Other than that, it's a nice card and even comes with low profile brackets. Some LP cards make you buy the bracket separately.

FYI, I ended up getting a PNY brand GT 430, which I was able to get for $40 from Best Buy due to some gift cards I had laying around. Very nice card and works great with the X8SIA-F and Windows 7. A couple of things I discovered: The motherboard doesn't seem to allow both the IPMI video...

There's also the new GT 630 which should hit retail soon. Maybe I'll get a 430 for now and upgrade to a 630 later if I need to. http://www.anandtech.com/show/5784/nvidia-updates-geforce-600-oem-desktop-lineup-adds-gt-645-gt-640-gt-630