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I just updated bios on my X10SDV mobo using dos-formated USB-stick, everything went well (usb-attached keyboard worked, so I could start the process with "flash.bat x10sdvf8.213"). At the end it says to reboot, so I rebooted, and now I want to get into bios, but simply can't. I tried <Delete>...

It seems all Intel Skylake/Kabylake CPUs (i3, i5, i7, xeon e3) have bug in hyperthreading affecting every OS. Solution is to disable HT in bios, or update to the latest microcode...

I'm building small server with local storage using ZFS as file-system. As it is SSD-only, I suppose I do not need extra SSD for L2ARC, but I still need separate media for ZIL/SLOG. From what I have read, Intel-SSDs are ahead of competition, but I'm facing certain limitations. Because my HW has...

Did anyone try to use SuperMicro SC504-case for X10SDV-series motherboard? Mobo has 24+6 pin power-header, but PSU in SC504 has 20-pin connector (+some 8-pin, I suppose for gfx). I'm not sure what to do now: simply put 20-pin cable into 24-pin motherboard header and that's it? Or do I have to...

My motherboard has only one PCIe 8x (now used by raid-controller) and a few PCIe 4x slots, and I need graphic card (passthrough to VM). Now my question is: If I manage to fit PCIe 16x graphic card into PCIe 4x slot, will it work? All I need is GFX with "symbolic" DX11-support, with no extra...

Let's say raid-controller died and I want to replace it while preserving old raid-arrays. What is proper way to do it? Obviously, I get the same controller with the same firmware version (which I keep in reserve for exactly this case). Then I remove the old controller, insert the new one, and...

In case you missed the latest Techreport's update: Samsung 840Pro/256GB and Kingston HyperX-3k/240GB reached 2 petabytes of written data and still continue (Corsair Neutron, Intel 335, Samsung 840 non-pro and other HyperX-3k died already). Very impressive results, for relatively cheap consumer...

Did anyone try to flash LSI-9266/M5016 with 23.29.0-0016 firmware? After I did, I'm experiencing problems with supercap. At boot-up I get a message: "...battery is missing or malfunctioning, or the battery is unplugged, or the battery could be fully discharged..." I'm pretty sure I never seen...

If one of drives in raid-array fails, how can I say which one is it? I mean, physically, so that I replace really the failed one. I have raid-controller with 2x SFF-8087 ports (vertical). In each of them are SFF-8087/4xSATA cables, with lines marked as P0, P1, P2, P3. Right now, I have only 4...

In case you did not notice: Samsung released the first SSD with V-NAND (or 3D NAND): 850Pro Series SSD! It is basically 840Pro, updated with new multi-layered MLC NAND cells (in the current Samsung's generation it is up to 32 layers). It looks very promissing and I can't wait to see SM843T...

OMG, I just made one stupid thing: enthusiastic over my raid-controller and SSDs I just plugged them in my server, created raid-array, fomated, loaded my VMs, started. Just after a few days I realised I did not left any free (unformated) space for extra over-provisioning! :-( I can re-format...

I just wanted to order one more Samsung SM843T/480GB Data Center Series SSD, but reseller told me these drives are "EOL". He told me Samsung does not deliver them anymore (at least not to EU-resellers). Does anyone know if this is true? Is SM843T going to be replaced by some other series...

Has anyone ever heard of (or has any experience with) Winkom Powerdrive SLX-8 SSD? Its specification looks quite interesting: 550/520 MB/s, random 4k IOPS 80k/68k, SLC (Intel NAND flash), SF-2281 controller. Price 289€ for 128GB seems to me to be suspiciously low for SLC. Moreover I did not...

I need small storage for ~10VMs on my ESXi-server. Right now I need about 150GB, with perspective of up to 200GB by the end of this year. R/W ratio? Anything between 2:1 and 5:1 (hard to guess). Controller is M5016. I narrowed down my options to these 2 for about the same price (if there is some...

While I was looking for IBM M5015 (with intention to cross-flash it to LSI 9260) I found IBM M5016. I think now of M5016 as substitution, but I do not know what the differencies are. I know M5015 is SAS2108-based, while M5016 uses SAS2208. But I have a few questions: Q1: Can M5016 be...

Hi forum-members, I was looking for IBM M5015, but now I can get IBM M5014 (with iBBU) for quite good price. I' ready to go for it, but it has "only" 256MB of cache. I know M5015 has 512MB, and some LSI-models (9270?) even 1GB. So I want to ask: Does it make a big difference? And if it...

Hi forum members, I'm building my esxi-server, I want to use local storage for VMs and I have two options: a) either I buy 3x 120GB SSD (SM843T) and put them in raid5 (controller is LSI-9260) b) or 2x 240GB SSD (the same type) for raid1 (the same controller) Both ways I get ~240GB of...

First, greetings to all forum-members from passer-by! I just obtained IBM M5015 controller and was scared by terribly long boot-time, so I started looking for some info and found this forum by chance. I have a few questions, but please be patient with me, because I'm complete noob concerning...