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A 14TB or 16TB drive (mirrored, obviously) would be adequate for the current storage and for the anticipated needs for the next 5 years. I think I may be able to cut down the storage such that 12TB would fit the bill but that’d be pushing it in terms of what time I have available to cull...

Hello all. Been a couple of months over 9 years since I last logged in here! Life took me away from the server/IT management space but I'm still using the same server for home and business that I built back in 2014 - a Supermicro X10SRH-CLN4F with an E5-1650 and 64GB DDR4 RAM hooked up to 6...

You don't need a special 8087-8087 cable for hooking up a M1015 to any 8087 backplane I've seen - something like what you linked should work fine.

For Ubuntu Server it's gdisk, from memory, and in Windows you can do it via Disk Management.

Are they MBR or GPT?

The money might be better put towards a dead (or super cheap but working) LGA775 or so board + matching CPU and some practice without any pressure! You should be able to find one quite easily.

We use M1015s in IT mode with 4TB drives without issue - the full available capacity is shown to the OS. One of the chaps who uses IR mode might be able to chip in when they see this, but I've never had issue with a SAS2008 chipset card (like the M1015/9201-8i) and drives above 2TB behaving...

Which motherboard is it (or a photo would tell us which sort of slot it was)?

Hmm. We use a fair few PIKE cards but we always buy the IT-mode ones, not the IMR-ones so I've never had to look into whether it's possible to flash it. Worst case scenario, sell the IMR and buy the IT-mode one. The IMR one sells for more last I looked (and neither are super expensive) so you...

One word of warning - we did try a couple of super-cheap eBay molex->EPS adapters a few months back and found that some of them don't have pins which are as firmly installed as one might like... meaning that after light tension was applied a few times the grounds fell out. Would not have been...

I either use a Molex->EPS or repin one of the graphics outputs to an EPS end.

We use Seasonic 400W Platinum fanless PSUs in the last couple of dual-socket G34 builds we have done. Excellent efficiency, not super expensive and ample headroom with two 6128 HEs+64GB reg RAM + misc add-in cards + SSDs for OS. If you want more headroom they have higher-wattage models - for...

Would love to know pricing on these - really interesting boards! Seems like it is a good time to be playing with server gear, the next couple of years should be really interesting with more releases like these.

One of the local businesses runs ZFS on a system with 2GB RAM for 10TB of storage and it runs perfectly. His ARC is tiny but the array can easily saturate gigabit anyway, and given that he largely works with large files (raw photo and video) it doesn't make a noticeable difference for him.

This is probably something you've already looked at but are the cables known-working, and known to be not reverse breakout (e.g. have they worked elsewhere)? We have had a couple of episodes of being shipped reverse breakout when we ordered forward breakout, so I think it's worth checking if...