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Depend so what your users printing uses are like, but yes they can save your company bucket loads of money via print management software etc. Definitely worth looking into. Also sometimes it's cheaper to upgrade all your copiers printers etc to newer models.... as changing over to newer model...

SATA cable length limit is 1metre I believe.... BUT SATA is encapsulated within the SAS packets....so in theory your only SATA cable sould be from the expander to the backplane / drives..... And shouldn't include the rest of the cabling ?? .

I found this page on howto get these bastards to link up in esxi 5.5 Fixing Emulex 10GbE on ESXi 5.5 Seems they dont like the elxnet driver... and you have to make it run with the standard be2net driver... removing the elxnet driver works, and the link comes up now at boot in esxi 5.5...

popped everything up here.... still uploading at present emulex - Google Drive

Hmmm been a long time, will see what I can find

Supermicro | Products | Accessories | Mobile Racks | CSE-M28SACB 8 x 2.5inch drives in 2 x 5.25inch bays?

I run a HP ML350 G6 as a muck around workstation Popped in 2 x old 8600GT cards..... 4 Monitors and dual quad cores with 128Gig ram makes it do all I need it to do. ;)

try on a different machine 1st, Some controllers have issues with HPA (from memory) either completely ignoring it... or not reading it correctly. As you have found out HDPARM is a very powerful... but also dangerous tool... .

Reboot after? so the HPA is recognised? try my guide Guide to Restoring a crippled HDD's capacity or HDD Overclock - Overclockers Australia Forums .

Is the 1015 running at it's native x8 speed? or has the PCI-E Slot it's in been clocked down some ? .

Can you look them up on the Dell site? DP/N says Dell Part Number to me.

Friend has one (I beleive it's this model) its just a simple core 2 duo board inside. so you can in theory put any OS you want on it. They are quiet with the original OS I am going to wait for him to want to sell it and buy it to run Xpenology on it. Should make a great Synology clone box I...

Can't you just sell it and buy a ml360/370? The ML series are quieter than the DL series .

have you tried changing the speed / version of the pci-e slots the card is in? eg change it from version 3 back to pcie-2 etc?

If you really want to be "put off" buying anything Watch this documentary The Fake Trade - Top Documentary Films It's pretty bad when a company decides to make a new factory in China..... not only to have their products faked.... but when things are that bad they CLONE a Whole "Real...