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  1. cheezehead

    [SCAM] Lot of 80pcs Lenovo P4610 6.4TB U.2 SSDPE2KE064T8L

    I like one of their other ones better: 8pcs Micron 7450 PRO 15.36TB 2.5 U.3 PCIe 4.0 - 8pcs Micron 7450 PRO 15.36TB 2.5 U.3 PCIe 4.0 NVMe Solid State Drive SSD New | eBay Considering everything else they've been selling, i'm guessing the account got compromised.
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    TrueNAS general purpose write-caching

    Thanks for the roasting. IXSystems like all businesses are looking to make money, if it makes financial sense they could. There is no fork to ZFS needed to support it. The functionality is there already with regular linux distros, it's really a question of if they want to take advantage of...
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    TrueNAS general purpose write-caching

    Looking for others to help up vote a general purpose write-caching method for TrueNAS. Log in with Atlassian account
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    HBA passthrough

    Aware it's an edge case issue. In a business setting I wouldn't be running it but in test labs, that's another story. For some, to get the M$ adoption at a business...it starts with home labs.
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    Migrate from TrueNAS Core to XigmaNAS?

    Any specific reason? Early versions of Scale were a rough around the edges but more recent builds have been very stable from what i've seen.
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    HBA passthrough

    Tested on Server 2025 as well but to answer the question, no it's not possible. Hyper-V can handle GPU, individual hard disk pass through, and network adapters but not storage controllers. An old but length write-up on the process can be found at: Passing through devices to Hyper-V VMs by...
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    HBA passthrough

    Testing out the Hyper-V role within Server 2022 in the lab, with it I've got a pair of storage spaces mirrored SSDs for VM storage but I'm looking to pass-through a SAS2008 device to a VM and hitting a wall. --------------------------------------------------------------------- $pnpdevs =...
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    Enterprise SSD/HDD price increases :-(

    For as old as they are, i'm finding very little reason to move off E5-2600 v4 gear at home.
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    Hyper-V cost

    See if you can get your employer to cover MSDN/VisualStudio Online licensing, then it's effectively free.
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    LSI RAID Controllers - PCIe2-6Gbps / Windows Server 2022

    The 2012 driver should be compatible with Server 2022. https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-in/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=chmkh I'm running a lower in 9211-8i under Server 2022 right now, though I'm not trying to boot off of it.
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    Inspur-branded LSI9300-8i for $50

    Anyone notice any functional differences between these and either lsi/dell branded variants?
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    Quick hardware question

    All depends on the workload. For TrueNAS the hardware is overkill on the cpu side and possibly the ram depending on how much space or active space you need. Ram will get used as ARC space (read cache) before L2Arc comes into play. If you have lots of ram, adding L2Arc may not be of any help...
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    ESXi free 8.0 seems to be the last one !

    Migrating to a mix of Server 2022 with Hyper-V and Proxmox for at home. At work we are looking at Server 2022 with Hyper-V (2025 rebuilds this coming winter), most of the hosts are already licensed for datacenter and all the third party integrations are already there. Veeam integrations are the...
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    Power consumption: desktop vs "mini pc"

    While a lower draw is always better, also factor in UPS runtime and local power costs. Around here, I can save a sizable chunk on slightly less efficient hardware but it only costs a few dollars/year in electric with a power saving ROI vs electric spent of 5+yrs.
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    Parents of STH - what is/are your solution(s) for Internet management with kids?

    I generally don't tell them how all the filtering works. DHCP reservations to firewall drop all after bedtime, otherwise some basic anti-malware filters and blocking a few countries. their tablets are locked down, no browsers yet (younger ones). Otherwise just general parenting on what's out...
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    SFP+ write codes

    HP compatible optics have an extra chip compared to everyone else. HP optics can be coded to Cisco/Juniper/Palo/ect but not the other way around. Just looking at changing the optic revision coding to a more recent revision (J9151A to J9151E and J9150A to J9150D mainly).
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    SFP+ write codes

    Does anyone have any lists of 4-byte hex write codes for optic reprogramming? For some generic no-names out of china i've found the two following work with some suppliers. 00 00 00 00 12 34 56 78 While some 3rd party suppliers off up their own SFP programmers, I've been stuck a few times now...
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    Cheap HPE stuff (modules, AOCs, DACs, cables), smells fishy to you?

    To verify the optics and AOC's, you'll need a SFP programmer to do a full read off the modules. In general programmers will modify the user portion of the EEPROM to make optics look like whatever so the switches are happy but the manufacture memory portion is restricted and a lot harder to...
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    Switching from Synology to TrueNAS - Need build help

    All depends on your actual usage, if hardware is laying around then you may want to play a bit. 1) Depending on workflow, could be for ZIL or L2ARC 2) 32GB might be ok or could be very undersized. Given the chassis maxed at 12x12TB drives, you could be pushing 256GB of ram in the right...
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    4TB 3PAR drives in sleds $52

    Fyi, 3Par drives run custom firmware for their arrays and ymmv for how well it works outside of it. I've got a couple of 3Par spinner arrays with a mix of Hitachi and Seagate drives in them, I haven't seen failure rates any higher with either manufacture.