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Hey team! Here is what I have as my current setup: Dell R620:HBA->NetApp. Running the TrueNAS Scale on a bare metal, a whole bunch of containers, managed by Portainer. CoreDNS, Traefik and all the good stuff. The capacity tier is on NetApp in a ZFS pool. It runs couple backup tasks to Google and...

One more dumb question - can it be used with 10GbE switch? Like a reversed connection - 4x10 breakout cable from NIC to 4 ports on the switch, where it's aggregated to 40GbE. UniFi in particular. I saw the post on STH main, about the advise to use the QSFP to SFP adapter and that in general...

One more Q: What is a Netapp NAJ-1502? I don't know enough about the NetApp. Sounds like it's a controller. What's it for? Is that a SAN of sorts? Is it useful for homelabbers?

Hi team! I am looking for a storage solution for my updated server. Currently I run a NetApp DS4246 with LSI SAS2308 HBA. The goal is to have more modern solution. Preferably with SAS12G. Here is what I am trying to figure out: NetApp product lines: The classic - DS4(U)24(Drives) 6(SAS6) all...

Not much traffic in here... I hoped it would be bit more active. What else people use for massive-ish data storage? I thought the smart JBOD is an optimal solution. It's cheap, fast and reliable. But it seems most of uses are bouncing between NetApp and Dell MD1200.

Hey team! TLDR: Planning a new box, I want a SAS12 enclosure. Aslo, how do we host a bunch of containers and a ZFS? Bare metal or virtualized? First, let me describe what I have, what I love and what I want improved. I got an R620 dirt cheap with 368Gb RAM, bumped CPUs to 12C's (max possible)...

Smartctl gives me this: I think it's better to return this one.

Digging through the dmesg That's it. lsscsi doesn't see anything: nvme list gives me empty. Nothing about the sector size. Seems like a dead SSD to me.

That's a great idea. I will try it first thing tomorrow. PS: That M.2 to U.2 adapter is no good. I plugged it into PCIe slot and it does the same. Slot shows empty. I will try a different M.2 drive. One I have it there is ancient it was the first Samsung PCIe NVMe. Perhaps it's bit too old.

Hi team! More of my R640 adventures. I got it with 10x2.5 SAS configuration, with H730p RAID. Idea is to add the 2-5 and 6-9 cables to use it in full NVMe ZFS. I am getting some bumps in a road with it. I got cables, 6-9 first, 2-5 later, when the first cable seemed to work. DC P3600 from eBay...

Hi team! I am planning an update to my existing NAS, that is currently connected to NetApp DS4246. I have a dell R640 that needs an HBA for that connection. So I wonder, if it makes sense to go with SAS12 HBA? The reason is to future-proof and to have longer/better support in future ESXi. The...

Yup. I have these as well. But they don't post part numbers anywhere. I could swear, I remember the same manual for my old R620 had a list of all the part numbers, compatible with the configuration. I guess, they don't like homelabbers any more. My hope was may be to find some internal Dell...

I am trying to figure out the R640 NVMe backplane. How it looks right now: Backplane is connected to PERC: The goal is to use the NVMe drives in front bays and use HBA to connect to external enclosure. So I am trying to figure out what part numbers do I need and how to make any sense out of...

Hi team! I guess the HBA forum is the closest one to ask this. I have a Synology RS with an expansion unit and I was quite happy with it. But lately, I picked up a great deal on R620 with 384Gb RAM to offload resource-intensive containers from NAS. That worked quite well, so it made me think -...

Thanks a bunch for the R620. It works great!

Hi there! I would love to pick one up. How do I contact you? Thank you