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This is what I mean. It exists regardless of the slots in use or the disk type. Strange part is that the same card/expander/disk set works just fine on an X8DTE-F board so I know this combo works together. It's just something about the X9SRL-F board that causes this weird phenomenon. But the...

I ended up buying a cheap GPU and sticking it in the last slot on the end (which is the lowest performing, slowest slot in the bus).

I am attempting to add drives to my Windows-based backup server using it's existing P420 hardware RAID HBA and I'm not having any success. I purchased a 9-port (36-drive) HP port expander (G9 HP 727250-B21 727252-001 761879-001 ) and, while it recognizes all of the drives some of the drives...

Well that's that then. :)

Now that I’ve built a pair of fully-solid state ISCSI targets using TrueNAS core I’d like to upgrade my network to provide the lowest latency from these boxes to my 3-node ESX 7.03 cluster and I’m looking for recommendations. PCI slots are at a premium on my boxes so I’m thinking a dual-port...

That's what I feared. Thanks for your help, though.

Can you tell me more about "ASPEED" or "lga balls"? The weird part is that it was plugged in and working, and then it stopped working so it wasn't that I was moving stuff around and kinked something.

I have a Supermicro X9SRL-F motherboard whose VGA port has suddenly decided to stop working. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot it? IMPI works and remote desktop to the windows OS works just fine. It's just that no amount of cajoling can make the port work. I've tried multiple VGA cables and...

Like the title says. I have a PowerConnect 6248 switch (48 1gbit ports and 4 10g uplinks) that I've pulled the 40mm fans and replaced with a single 140mm fan. I like the switch and am looking for a smaller version of it for my home office. I'd love to be able to connect a LAG from my office to...

I have an old SmartArray P410 to which are connected eight Seagate Terascale 4TB HDDs at 3gbps. I'm thinking of buying a P430 to get my disks connected at 6gbps but the question remains: How big of a deal is 6bgps? It's like home networking: there is the 2.5gbps wireless standard and...

Oh. Duh. Not sure why I didn't bother going straight to the source!

I have a pair of this enclosure and I'm currently using adapters to mount ten 2.5" SSDs into 3.5" drive bays. Does anyone know if there exists a higher density version of these enclosures purpose built for 2.5" disks?

edit: actually, I think IIO IOU 2 might be bifurcated as X4X4X8 to allocate two X4 lanes to Slot 6. I took a lot of pictures to document my attempts and I might have them mixed up. Also- I am using this board as a trueNAS server with one pool of 16 500g SSD in RAID10 attached to the two M1015...

The 2-port NVMe adapter I used was this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09PGDMWKH which is about half price of the Supermicro card you posted. That said, the secret sauce here is understanding how each PCIe slot maps to the CPU and chipset. As a definition, IIO stands for Integrated...

I have a Supermicro X9SRL-F motherboard on which the IPMI isn't working properly. When I got the board I went into the BIOS and changed the IP address to static and it shows as 192.168.x.y. The IP address is pingable but I cannot point a browser to it. IPMIView 2.21.0 detects it and I can add...

The board I was asking about was a X9SRL-F :) but the premise is the same. An x8 slot can be split into two x4 slots which is what I was looking for. With a 2-slot NVMe card, each slot requires an x4 lane to function so you put it on an x8 slot and split it.

A BIOS update to 3.3 solved it. Thanks!

I have purchased a two-port NVMe PCIe adapter and I'm trying to get my Supermicro X9SRL-F motherboard to recognize it. I'm trying to turn on bifurcation on the slot but the ""IIO 1 PCIe Port Bifurcation Control" option I'm supposed to access is black and not selectable. Is this setting...

I'll be looking for a quiet 120mm or 140mm fan and some passive heatsinks for the various chipsets instead.

Well, I'm not sure I'm happy or sad that you've talked me out of it. :D I was kinda looking forward to a weird project like this, but am happy to not spend the dosh on motherboard/cpu/ram/case/fiber HBAs/4-port gig NICs.