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Yes. And it would mechanically route the bad card to a discard pile. I learned to make sure the card deck was secured with 2 elastic bands. Then I would walk from my dorm to the computer building to have the cards read. We could print out the cards to paper and check our program to correct any...

For those of use that use punch cards :) Someone please explain how backspace worked on the keyboard. For you younger types. How could we press backspace ..go back .. and "edit" what we had already punched into the card.

I have not posted here in a few years. But I got a laugh out of the I learned to program on Fortran with punchcards and seen a chunk of history including storage. I taped out my first chip on 1.5u in 1987 I can see the building that housed ex-IBM engineers that wrote drive firmware under the...

I use an external USB drive(s) as the boot drive. These are SATA SSDs which are external using a 2.5" case with a SATA to USB converter. I used to use 2 of these mirrored but you can use one and just back up your config in case of failure. By using an external drive for the OS and boot I save...

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I dealt with them years ago and had a good experience but I could not manage to buy from them in Aug 2022. I filed a support ticket and got some emails but I never got a quote for drives. In the end I went with another bigger outfit in town. I have personally met Michael and he is a decent...

I have done drive cage for tower. There are some cases with front loading drives and backplanes. These tend to be a bit more expensive. I got lucky and got the supermicro 4 bay mini-tower for $80 new. There are others which are sold for DIY NAS. I also have a Silverstone DS380 and I added a cage...

I assume you will run raidZ2 on the 5 drives. If one fails its not that simple for a person to replace the drive. An internal drive is beyond most normal people but if you have a tray with drives that are easy to swap a regular person may be able to do it. Here is the hard part. You have 5...

240G is overkill and you can get small drives for under $20 on ebay. But 240 is fine if you want to use it. Go with USB as its simpler to change if one fails. That being said ... you are more likely to have a failure if someone yanks out the usb cable. It is possible to do it via USB...

I am not sure how big the SSD is just for a mirrored boot. If its a reasonable size then use the SSD for a pool. You can use a small SSD even externally via USB for boot. I have a Truenas Scale system booting from external USB using a SATA SSD. I used to do this on Truenas Core using 2 SATA...

I could not boot into the BIOS on this board. It would switch off after PEI Intel reference code execution followed by 0x18=mrcColdBootRequired The board requires ECC DDR4 UDIMM 2400 (max). I was plugging in 1 or 2 sticks of 16GB ECC DDR4 UDIMM 2666. I then tried 1 stick of 16GB DDR4 3200...

they have gone up 50 cents in 18 months.

Here in the Bay Area the base rate is now 0.35 non-peak in the off-season. 0.38 in the summer with a penalty from 5 to 8 pm

I'm hoping to install the motherboard in the case today.

I agree. the fans are mostly to keep the drives cool. I will be leaving them on.

I have no idea but I just ordered an 847 yesterday and I am hoping to pick it up on Friday ... fingers crossed. The case will sit on a rack in my garage but I was not expecting a jet engine. This is my first 4U SM case. Ironically, I need to spend time moving parts from a 3U case to a 4U LP...

I have done business with these guys before. They are near my house and I picked up the drives and avoided shipping. I have posted on this before. They are legit. I am a happy customer. The drives I got from them years ago are still working.

wow! I am impressed that people are still running these. I have 2 but they are switched off. I ended up cannibalizing the DRAM for newer systems. From memory ... these were 32nm Westmere which I think was a spin of the Nehalem architecture. all from memory. I could be wrong.

I agree but for cheap you should be able to reuse your existing memory and just buy a new board with LSI SAS on board but then you need to spring for the processors. 2670 should be cheap but a bit power hungry. As nk215 said, cheapest is just to buy an LSI SAS card and save your money for the...

I am still running multiple X10SL7-F at home. These were down around $50 for a while and made for cheap servers. There is a weird X10SLH-LN6TF kicking around which is cheap. I bought one from a local vendor in bay area. You can get it in a 1U but that only has 4 drives. I would go with SAS...