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Thanks for the heads up. I didn’t even check other sizes, and assumed 12tb was the sweet spot!

Looking for qty 4 12TB sas drives, brand doesn't matter

I'm also willing to part it out

price drop

Phanteks Enthoo Pro is a great cheap case that you can put a lot of drives in if you add a 3x5.25 -> 4x3.5

I've got my old faithful setup for sale. Intel S2600CP2 motherboard (no io shield) 16x 16GB Hynix 2Rx4 PC3 12800R dimms 2x Xeon e5-2680v2 Cooler Master Hyper 212 evo 120mm fan heat sinks asking $175+ shipping edit: dropped the price!

I realized that I have 4 3TB WD Red Pros just sitting in an old enclosure doing nothing.

I'm looking to purchase 2 inexpensive enterprise SATA drives >=2TB in size Seagate Exos, HGST, whatever, just known working and cheap. No longer needed

I'm looking to upgrade my current dual e5-2680v2 server, and it looks like xeon scalable is still too expensive and the sweet spot would be a broadwell v4 generation setup. WTB Supermicro X10DRi motherboard fulfilled e5-2690 v4 x2 fulfilled DDR4 2133 ecc rdimms, 16GB or 32GB sticks fulfilled

My guess is that you cannot convert your rear drive bay chassis to one with the additional slots. It's not necessarily just a matter of replaceable parts but the chassis and motherboard etc. See this website listing various parts. Note on the R540 there are 3 distinctly different chassis...

Which pcie riser configuration do you currently have? Refer to this doc. Do you have the one with the rear drive cage? https://i.dell.com/sites/csdocuments/Product_Docs/en/dell-emc-poweredge-r740xd2-technical-guide.pdf It appears you want the change it to the configuration on page 8 figure 5?

You do not need any activation key for onload, efvi, tcp direct, or ptp with the PLUS version you can check the licensed features once you install it and run "sfkey"

When the heck is the version of ZFS on linux coming out that allows 1. expansion of raidz vdevs, 2. automatic rebalancing of data

This may or may not matter to you, but it irks me to no end....if you add another vdev to your pool all your writes will go to the new vdev, they will not be balanced.

The typical purpose of fronting the ISP connections with a switch is so you can have redundancy with high-availability firewalls. Don't need any vlans, can be unmanaged switches. Each firewall of the HA pair will have a connection to each ISP in this scenario. see this crude diagram edit: If...

The 52 near the end of the model number noted in the auction would indicate 512e

Some are trying other coins that are still PoW, however, that has obvious problems. As miners move to another coin, that lessens the profitability for all miners of that coin. Furthermore, the mining is to support the transactions of that coin...and no coins have anywhere near the volume of...

Uh....environment with a single domain controller? Pretty insane. Having a local backup account isn't a bad idea, however, if you're only creating one to share amongst all your users, you'd have to give it permissions to everything. Everyone would have access to everything. If that's not a...

Even if you have the x10 backplane that supports NVME, you cannot use the M.2 to U.2 adapter for all 10 bays, just 4 of them, which are wired for nvme back to the motherboard. They should work for those 4 bays though.

Yes, please stop calling these arrays, these are not anything like traditional disk arrays that stripe and parity (raid5, raid6, raidz, etc.) I think that's partly why people were not understanding what you were trying to do originally.