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Hey guys, Bit of an interesting situation - picked up a LSI SAS 9300-8i (SAS 3008) from eBay for a reasonable price. Seller was brilliant and posted it quick. Unfortunately, the thing doesn't seem to work with the drive. Trying everything as I don't really want to return it. Using a SFF-8643...

Hi guys, It's the start of reading week so I'm doing some server stuff (moving it into my bedroom, some network stuff too). Usually, I've been way too busy to observe stuff but now I'm starting to put a fair bit of load on the server (running CCTV with redundancy recording). So, I have a PERC...

I'm interested in running FreeNAS on Hyper-V (server 2016) to manage the home storage needs. I'm having a couple of problems with Server - the biggest one is where the OS will cache written data to RAM, write to disk and then when the disk cannot keep up, ends up at 0b/s. Then, I get a prompt...

I come to the masters of home/ent servers with a question. A question that has had the seniors in my family bring out calculators, pens and many sighs... power efficiency. Long story short, I have a server that seems to be taking 212w (figure given by Corsair LINK - H1000i installed). It needs...

In my quest to build my own server because I sort of outgrew my old one, some PERC H310's came. When I say came, one did - the seller sent me one H310 and another idk what card. Still, all being sorted and hopefully I'll have the second H310 by Saturday morning. With the one I got, I've tried...

I am attempting to kill two birds with one stone on this thread - I ended up with a D2616 (based on the SAS 2108) which has 512mb cache after a server screwup. Stupidly I thought the cache would be a good idea so I put all 7 drives onto it and shoved it into the server. Used the (painful)...

I've been lurking on these forums for ages but never created an account. Now I'm seriously stuck, I hope you guys can help. I have a HP StorageWorks 1760 LTO 4 tape drive (internal, half height). Previously, this was connected to a P212 controller - since then, the controller decided to throw...