Recent content by rst6616

Patrick I am able to cancel my order if you are still interested. Perhaps my email would be a more appropriate place to arrange this

Patrick, I wish I knew that you wanted to sell yours a bit sooner. I have already placed my order and don't know if I can reverse! If I can I will let you know. Thanks for your quick response.

Yes I will replace drives, but was hoping only as they wear out. Otherwise they will just be wasted. I haven't even thought about configurations yet. So far, I am thinking that the 3 new drives would be Raid-Z but don't yet know what to do with the existing drives. If I try to use them all...

My planned server hardware is as follows: Server: -Supermicro X8ST3-F motherboard -12gig ecc un-buffered Kingston KVR1333D3E9SK3/12G -Intel Quad Xeon 2ghz E5504 or Xeon 3.06ghz W3550 (not selected yet) -existing sata Seagate drives 4-320gig & 2-750gig (all 7200rpm server grade) for...

Thanks you Patrick & nilsga for your responses. Much appreciated. I have an awful lot to learn about and it is great to receive advise from people who care.

Patrick, is the working Kingston memory you now use the exact same memory as I ordered as shown in my 1st post? Knowing this will really give me relief.

This is my first post. I am a total novice planning on using ZFSguru for a home storage build. After I just ordered 3 sticks (4gig each stick total 12gig) un-buffered ECC memory(Kingston KVR1333D3E9SK3/12G) for the above motherboard, I noticed an alarming note in the recent article of "The...