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Another heavy plus for drivers and firmware. Many times, things do not work quite right because of drivers/firmware. MTU settings or misalignment might also be the key. Speaking of RDMA, StarWind NVMe-oF, if I remember it right, works over TCP. Give it a try. Finally, consider reaching out to...

Yes, the support is just great.

Speaking of file copying, I ran into an article Slow SMB files transfer speed. Try using robocopy. You could try tweaking FirstBurstLenght value HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4d36e97b-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\000X\Parameters (i.e., aligning it with...

Google Drive should make it. For TB-scale cloud storage, I'd rather be looking for Backblaze, maybe. Check these posts out:

I am using 2x Supermicro E300. They are tiny servers and give zero to no noise. It is ideal if you need a tiny lab you can pack in a 40L backpack. There is no room inside for storage though.

I had a really strange issue with Acronis CyberProtect in three or four systems I was looking after. It appeared to be clashing with Failover Clustering drivers and causing me real trouble transferring the CSV ownership. CSV just failed to move, leading the VMs down. There was an easy fix...

iSER is a dead-end. Even if the target is added, there are still issues with iSER Initiators. Most of the vendors just simply switched to NVMe-oF things and as far as I can see, there are no plans to continue to evolve iSER at all.

With a single SAN, which even could be backed up by two controllers, and two network cards, you are still building an inverted pyramid of doom, and you are relying all your storage subsystems on a single piece of hardware, and it is a very fragile architecture. The first option with two nodes...

Take a look at something like Nakivo and ArcServe

I would only add that both UnRAID and TrueNAS rely on their embedded RAID mechanisms (like ZFS). They do require direct disk access in order to operate with them. But nothing really stops you from deploying a pure Debian/Ubuntu VM on the SSD array and passing either RDM or large VMDK (thick...

Did you try to change VM parameters? Like set static memory, change vCPU core count to see if it differs? It may also be related to the idle power state in the processor. You can try to check this fix - Fix: Hyper-V virtual machine slow startup.

As far as I know, Intel RST doesn't properly operate with sleep mode with HDDs. Maybe, it is related to RAID-0, since data is striped across all drives and the array is forced to keep them always online. According to this thread on the Intel community forum, this feature is broken, and only very...

Please note that Mirror-Accelerated Parity configuration is only officially supported in S2D setup, not in standalone storage spaces. While it can technically be assembled that way, Microsoft officially does not support it, and it was developed for S2D. That being said, ensure you have a good...

Take 1U refurb SuperMicro or Dell. SM has pure single socket systems with wide options for networking that built-in in chassis as well as you may use any RAID controller, memory and disks that not really certified with the server but still will work with 99% sure. But Dell is very cool with...

I would go with any l2/l3 switch. It might be either manageable or not manageable. As per the server chassis, you can take a look at small SuperMicro chassis or Intel NUC servers if you are looking for small servers or buy a full-width rack/tower servers, here is the article of the choosing...

As for SSDs for OS, I would recommend taking a look into servers where SATADOM option is available. It saves a few $ and if you want additional redundancy you can always take a look at BOSS cards (they will be raided in R1)

Just saying that you shouldn't go with R5 for big HDDs rebuild will kill you, eventually.

>We have traditionally worked off of one physical server for up to 50 clients at a time playing back HD, and about 10 to 20 clients playing back UHD and 4K. I would recommend starting with the solid plan in terms of redundancy. Are you willing to have one storage object in your infrastructure...

>My thought had been that this would provide fault tolerance comparable to RAID 10 ... worst case tolerating 1 failure, best case tolerating 4 failures. But in doing more reading it seems that no matter how many columns, mirrored storage spaces won't tolerate more than one drive failure. Not...

"I can't tell you how often I still hear negative stories about Seagate HDDs" That's so true. To add to the topic, yes 10Tbs should be supported without issues.