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    HBA LSI 9500-8i / LSI3816 firmware update under Windows server 2022

    Bios won't update: C:>storcli64 /c0 download file=IT_HBA_X64_BIOS_PKG_E6.rom CLI Version = 007.3006.0000.0000 Apr 17, 2024 Operating system = Windows Server 2022 Controller = 0 Status = Failure Description = The image signature is invalid. Learned that this is not the way to update BIOS but...
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    HBA LSI 9500-8i / LSI3816 firmware update under Windows server 2022

    It goes simple with: storcli64 /c0 download file=<firmware_file> the question is mixed or sas/sata profile?
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    HBA LSI 9500-8i / LSI3816 firmware update under Windows server 2022

    It was easy before with lsi9300 they could be updated under megaraid or dos simple commands. This new adapter is a bit tricky or I'm missing something. I have latest firmware .bin HBA_9500-8i_SAS_SATA_Profile.bin HBA_9500-8i_Mixed_Profile.bin I'm planing to use only sas3 HDD for now. So I...
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    TrueNAS 13 U4 Metadata special device size, how to calculate?

    Few more things that might help people test their metadata setup. I will do on my end and get back here. My storage have a bunch of files, file sequences .exr or .jpg range from 100 to 400 each - video shots, each 20 to 60mb in size, jpg are 800MB to 4MB in size. Recommendations given to me: >...
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    TrueNAS 13 U4 Metadata special device size, how to calculate?

    This is info I got from iX SE: It's not that the information is "secret" or "protected" but that the calculation isn't as simple as a "percentage of your data size." Metadata space is directly dependent on the record size of the stored blocks - so a user aiming to use meta acceleration for...
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    TrueNAS 13 U4 Metadata special device size, how to calculate?

    That link above is helpful, but later on they bring some confusing conclusions, correcting each other; that's' why I started this thread here. One system admin mentioned to me few months ago that there are some tunables that need to be done for metadata so it fully performs on truenas. What I...
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    TrueNAS 13 U4 Metadata special device size, how to calculate?

    Can someone point to information online regarding metadata special device sizing proportions. ex: My pool is about ~95TB in size made of 12drives sas3 > 4VDEV zfs1, each contains 3 drives. I have two m2 NVME 2TB 980pro drives in mirror. ~1.8TB actual size, Is this enough for that pool? I'd like...
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    Supermicro X10DRi bios modification for turbo unlocked all cores

    Took a time to find a time :) for this motherboard and update. Managed to do this via IPMI also found a way to activate for the update. What settings should be put in supermicro bios under CPU so the Turbo unlock starts on all cores? I found guide for regular turbo settings from supermicro but...
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    Supermicro X10DRi bios modification for turbo unlocked all cores

    I want to thank you one more time for sharing bios mod. with me here. I try today to update via Dos boot running flash.bat but it says biosname.816 "doesn't exist and please double check". please advise best B
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    Supermicro X10DRi bios modification for turbo unlocked all cores

    thank you sooo much, this is the latest bios?
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    Supermicro X10DRi bios modification for turbo unlocked all cores

    Does anyone have bios to share with turbo unlocked modification for 2011 v3? I need bios for X10DRi Supermicro motherboard. I have Taichi x99 as well if someone have bios for that board please share. thank you!
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    Supermicro X9dri Turbo Boost problem and how to turn it properly ON Xeon e5-2680 v2

    It looks like windows 10 power settings made slight and obvious improvement. Thank you @NeilJefferies MaxTurbo that I can get under win10 performance settings is ~3.3GHz, better than 2.8 As mentioned earlier this is sluggish CPU and far from snappy i7 or higher clock E5 CPUs. Thank you for...
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    Supermicro X9dri Turbo Boost problem and how to turn it properly ON Xeon e5-2680 v2

    thank you guys!!! @MBastian, can you chech my bios settings does it makes sense since you have the same board?
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    Supermicro X9dri Turbo Boost problem and how to turn it properly ON Xeon e5-2680 v2

    I'm running Supermicro setup as workstation on x9dri-ln4f+ dual Xeon e5-2680v2 but no luck setting Turbo Boost properly. System is used for 3D graphics and image file sequence 2D processing; frequency per core plays crucial role. OS > Windows 10 Pro for Workstation update 20H2. graphics Nvidia...
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    unlock turbo-boost ASRock X99 Taichi motherboard LGA2011 v3

    Does anyone have modified bios for ASRock Taichi X99 motherboard? I have Xeon E5- 2698v3; it will be nice to have this updated on latest bios 1.80 and turbo unlocked. Thank you! Bogdan
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    Brocade VDX 6740

    I got mine long time ago and that ownership transition happened so evrything is messed up. It was on the shelf as a backup solution. Mine is VDX6740B EMC dell version. Can anyone share firmware or any guide for unlocking ports? I also have Cisco Nexus no problems with that one evrything unlocked...
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    NVMe Storage Solution

    Thank you Rand! No quick solution is there, except classic hardware raid card and bam! raid10 on twelve drives on widnows. All of you guys helped so much. Sys admins in visual effects industry are exploring and looking for large and fast file storage all the time. Not an easy job to make...
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    NVMe Storage Solution

    So you are saying Storage Spaces classic one is not way to go for perfomrance?
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    NVMe Storage Solution

    Can s2d run on a single node? My guess was if going from Freenas to “StorageSpaces” or S2D is that I will be able to get better 40Gb Network performance and use same hardware. Freenas is not handling 40gb well "straight" like Windows. All hardware I have form decent software raid solution...
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    NVMe Storage Solution

    Hello all, This thread was favorite one to me. I have something to add and ask at the same time. Since last post there were many updates in hardware and OS for taking advantages of 10Gb and 40Gb networking I'm building setup for VFX office, computer graphics; so SMB share is priority for...