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If you only care about SMB (i.e., Windows file shares), then DFS on Windows solves the problem quite nicely. The gotcha is that to do it correctly, you'd need at least 3 machines (all could be VMs, though), with one machine being a domain controller and the other two joined to the domain. Then...

The Dell branded are fine. You can use the Intel/Solidigm firmware tool on them. I have purchased a couple from Chinese sellers, though, and they seem to be the real deal.

Actually, the "up to 90% health" refers to the choices on the dropdown list: 80% and 90%. Those choices imply a minimum, not a maximum.

Is there a reason that all the ones on eBay aren't acceptable?

Hard Disk Sentinel FTW It looks at more than just one or two SMART values and uses some logic to come up with a number that is closer to the real health. It's only downfall (in my opinion) is that it doesn't have a full database of drive endurance. So, a 10 DWPD drive reporting 90% remaining...

"Seller does not accept returns" on an eBay listing means the seller won't let you return the item because you have some form of "buyer's remorse". All eBay sales are covered by their ToS, and if an item is not listed as "for parts or not working", then you can get your money back if the item...

Depending on how the ACKs are done during the transfer, it could definitely slow to those speeds.

I am just returning a 1DWPD disk that was sold as "80% health or better", with SMART values showing 1% of reserved space used. Sounds good, until you see the two killer values of less than 1 total drive write during the lifetime of the disk, and 181 relocated sectors. It passed a long SMART...

Because it's the only way to train the AI chatbot.

I can't get past post 1,130 (https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/enterprise-ssd-small-deals.48343/post-505801) in the "Enterprise SSD small deals" thread. With my paging, that's page 57, and the navigation shows up to page 68.

Requirements are the big key. I wanted a "laptop" that was fairly lightweight and easily portable. It would only be used for web browsing, watching movies, and maybe some office apps. No 3D, no games, no compiling Linux, etc. For me, a Surface Pro 8 with 16GB of RAM and 512GB SSD for $629 was...

I got mine and installed Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. I had 2x8GB DDR4 SODIMMs and a 118GB Optane in the drawer, and they worked fine. Cold boot to login prompt is about 10 seconds. CPU idles at less than 40°C in my basement rack, which means the fan isn't running at all (default BIOS threshold for fan on...

First, 70Gbps isn't much lower than 96Gbps. It would mean that the "20 or so SSDs" I "back-of-the-napkin'd" would turn into 16. Second, my "48 spinning disks" assumed max throughput near the outer edge. The real-world sequential average is much lower, so even 70Gbps is a pipe dream for those disks.

I'll second Provantage, although their prices aren't as low compared to other stores as they used to be. Also, Wiredzone is good. I've bought from there a bit. PCNation isn't as good, but like Wiredzone, often has things in stock that other stores don't.

I have several of the Mikrotik CRS310 switches, and I would highly recommend them over your other listed options. All are at about the same price point, so I'd go with the much better supported, more reliable Mikrotik. I've had TP-Link, and they don't have anywhere near the features of the...

Forget about SATA...you do not want to run 6 (or more) cables between your host computer and your disk enclosure to connect 24 drive. Get an SAS3 HBA and a disk enclosure with an SAS3 backplane, and connect the two boxes with just 2 cables. This will give you 96Gbps total throughput between the...

Before the AI invasion, first posts from users were much more likely to be replies to existing threads. Now, it seems like every first post from a new user is a very specifically detailed problem that maybe can't be directly solved by normal Internet searches, but at least some headway could...

Use the bolts that came with the rails to connect the rails to the rack, and then use any style M5 bolts to keep the UPS from sliding forward. You can use just one on each rack ear if you want. For all your small metric bolt needs: $18.99 $7.99

That sounds exactly like how every single reasonable storage system works. It's exactly what I do when a drive fails on any of my LSI RAID controllers. Any storage system where you need to insert the new drive then instruct the system on what to do with that new drive isn't very user friendly.

There's a lot of slop on nuts or other "female" threads. The extra 0.174mm in diameter of the M5 bolt isn't enough to stop it from going into a 10-32. You use two bolts per rail (front and back, so 8 total) to fasten the rails to the the rack. Then two bolts per rail to fasten the UPS rack ears...