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    My home server build and future upgrade discussion

    It's been half-a-year since, just last week I took a bit of time to re-organise my HDDs (unplugged 2x 16TB just to avoid the latency issue). Turns out, it was not any of the Windows nor any Apps, it was the SATA cables that caused all the ruckus. So, I took out all the old cables, black, red...
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    My home server build and future upgrade discussion

    Just an update for No.2 disk latency issue. Please find the attached image for performance monitor capture. Does the % Disk Time can goes up to 300%+? Is that really bad? The read rate wasn't even that high on the qBittorrent though. And when I streaming movie through other disk (P: ) will...
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    My home server build and future upgrade discussion

    1. Not Supermicro's chassis, but the generic 4U server chassis, it has 12Gb SFF-8643 backplane. 2. I have the Resource monitor opened the whole time but the disk active time would spike 100% out of nowhere, maybe I would want to monitor carefully again sometime. Replicating that scenario is a...
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    My home server build and future upgrade discussion

    Hi, I am new here. A quick intro for my current home server. - 8-bay SATA HDD chassis with hot-swap - Intel 1151 mainboard, Pentium G4560, 8GB RAM - Acasis 8-port SATA card - 4x 4TB HDD, 4x 16TB HDD (no RAID, just use as separate disks mode) - 500GB NVME SSD through a PCI-E card for Windows...