Recent content by PD_ZFS-User

I don’t think you‘re crazy. I’ve thought about trying to do something similar with an HP t740 to create a mini all in one storage and hypervisor server. I’m still researching the required adapter and whether I could fit it onto the board. I’ll leave you a couple of links. The first is a...

Here’s an STH article about SFP+ to RJ-45 adapters: https://www.servethehome.com/sfp-to-10gbase-t-adapter-module-buyers-guide/

Provantage’s website shows four Asrock Rack ROMED8-NL motherboards, but it doesn’t have 10Gbit ethernet on the board. So you would have to use one of pcie slots for an adapter. Maybe it would meet your requirements. https://www.provantage.com/asrock-romed8-nl-bto~7ASRI0MQ.htm Good luck with...

Yes, definitely cheaper to do that. Especially if you don't need to work with SAS drives. Back when I got mine IIRC it was on special from Newegg in the US and it was about $80. That was all I was willing to spend for the convenience and flexibility to use SAS drives.

Here is one option from startech. I've had a similar enclosure/adapter for several years and it has held up ok. If this one is the same, the door latching and drive seating mechanism is kind of weak. Be careful not to force it closed if something is out of alignment...

Mithril, Perhaps an Edgerouter X loaded with Open WRT would meet your requirements. It's very low power, max of 5 watts according to the data sheet and flashing it to OpenWRT would avoid vendor lock-in : https://openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/edgerouter_x_er-x_ka It has 5 Gigabit ports (you would...

lukemunozic, I have an HP t740 and I’ve considered trying to do that as well. However, I don’t have knowledge of any particular case that ‘just works’. I think at least you would have to create your own surround for the rear ports. You’ll probably have to do more modding, but I haven’t...

Here are a couple of references that may help. OmniOS CE r151032 or later supports SMB3 and should probably work. https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/omnios-discuss/Td37a2af7d7f959fd OmniOS r151018 or later supported SMB2.1 but a fix was required to connect from Windows clients with SMB1...

Thanks for documenting the attempt. Now we all know to avoid the Hisenyo NIC. Well depending on what you think of Newegg's reputation these days, they do offer the LR-link NIC, but it does still ship from China with notes about four days processing and 6 to 18 days expected shipping times for...

WANg, If you can find a translation of standard PCIe pinouts to MiniPCIe pinouts, maybe you could try masking pins on the portion which plugs into the MiniPCIe port. No idea if this would work in your case, but perhaps it's worth a try before you return the NIC. An example link Anyone have...

knorrhane, Gea is an expert on ZFS who frequents these STH forums, but here's some basic information below about feature flags which is the system the zfs developers switched to from the earlier zfs pool versioning. I don't have any experience with SmartOS, but IIRC the last pool version was...

tnkrer, Hope this helps with your ESXi question. I think ESXi 6.0 may have the 'Autostart' capability as well. I know the free version of ESXi 6.7 includes the autostart capability and you can edit the settings using the vsphere html client. Look for the following in the menu: 'Host' >...

Zecas, Here's a link to CyberPower's runtime chart for the CP1500PFCLCD: Runtime Calculator | Power Runtime Calculating Tool Looks like it should be capable with good/newer batteries. YMMV as the batteries age. Hope this helps.

I came across this company in previous searches for an Asrock motherboard, but I don’t have any experience dealing with them. IIRC, you are not able to purchase from them by credit card nor paypal. Perhaps other members have experience with Game PC that they will share...

@WANg, My thinking so far is that using VSphere/ESXi 6.7 allows for an install to a USB flash drive, thus keeping the internal m.2 SATA and m.2 NVMe slots available for use as a datastore and/or passthrough to a VM. I have tested the ability to connect an SSD (installed in an external USB 3.0...