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Newbie here when it comes to disk shelves and connectivity to a server. Looking at getting a 24 bay disk shelf (Dell PowerVault MD1220) and a Perc H810 (flashed in IT mode) to run a bunch of SSDs in TrueNas (ZFS), but know nothing about disk shelf connectivity. How do these disk shelves work? I...

Ah, beautiful! Thank you guys! Exactly what I was looking for.

I'm looking for the naming nomenclature for the 15 pin SATA power connectors that clamp onto power wires. I need to build a custom cable for a project where I need several SATA power connectors at a specific distance from one another. None of the off-the shelf solutions work. What are they...

Perfect! Thank you Scott!

I'm looking for an URL link or part number of the connector typically soldered on the PCB that connects to a SFF-8087 cable. I could not find it on Digikey or mouser (maybe because I didn't really know what to search for) Anyone have any idea what it's called and where I can purchase them?

Thank you for all the advice and suggestions. Let's step back a little. Is it realistic to compare local SATA 3 SSD read/write speeds of small files with file access (small file size) over a 10GB network (regardless of NAS)? Do latencies over a ethernet 10GB connection allow for this kind of...

That's beside the point of this thread. I'm running 24GB of ram for the 19TB array , and I'm aware of the 1GB of ram per TB of storage suggestions. Now how do I improve the network transfer of small files?

Well, to compare apples to apples, I tossed in two 850 EVO 250GB SATA SSD into the FreeNAS box, and created a stripped array. I figured this would be the fastest array possible, and I wouldn't be running into storage bottlenecks. The FreeNAS box has 24GB ram. and a 8 core CPU. The CPU hardly...

I'm looking at upgrading the performance of my NAS. Currently running FreeNAS on a bunch of 6TB HGST drives. The LAN is 10GB ethernet. I have several workstations on the LAN and they each have a 2TB SATA SSD storage for data, and an NVMe boot disk. I would like to consolidate the SATA SSD...

Selling: ASRock x399 Fatality Professional Gaming motherboard Price: CAD$400 or US$300 (shipping cost is extra) This motherboard just came back from warranty work at ASRock. Anti-static bag is unopened. Comes with original box and peripherals in the box. For reference, this is the motherboard...

More performance oriented, with some room to grow in capacity. We were thinking of populating with 2TB drives to start. There's also a 40Gbit network card going into that box to make use of the drive performance.

I've been asked to build a "budget" NVMe storage box for a friend. The requirement is that it can handle 8 drives to start and have room to double. This will be built for a testing homelab environment. (Yes, I realize that the words budget and NVMe don't really mix.) Enterprise NVMe drives (in...

Anyone know what the physical length of this m.2 SSD is?

Yes. UnRaid's implementation of Xen.

UPDATE: I borrowed an old AMD HD6870 GPU from a friend and tossed it in the system. Booted up and did a quick install of UnRaid, and imagine my surprise when the GPU passed without any hassle to a VM. Next test is to verify stability, and to maybe try ESXi. My love for nvidia is starting to...

Goodpoint. In the ESXi days, I was trying to pass through a Quadro 4000 which is on the approved list for ESXi 5.5. With UnRaid I also tried a GTX 560 Ti

I'm no stranger when it comes to building computers (been at it for over 20 years) but this one problem stumped me. [back story] Last summer I bought a pair of E5-2670 (since they were so cheap) from ebay, and also picked up a ASRock EP2C602 Mobo to consolidate my file server/ESXi...