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I'd like to validate/torture test some new WD80EFAX drives before I migrate my data, what do you recommend?

I went back to get more today and the stack of drives was gone, so I asked them to grab some from the back and today there is DCM: MGBJRCJ Any reason these are not keepers?

Thanks for posting this deal. :) This is what my local BB has in stock:

I also have some 1800 series switches and I am unaware of any such feature, so I am curious. Is this a special switch to switch feature?

I thought LACP was only good for redundancy?

What is the reason for the trunk? If you have a flaky switch HP should warranty it.

Hi Patrick, When things go bad IO drops to ~ 20-30 M/s and the system acts like it's having a stroke. I couldn't imagine using it as a primary data storage and backup box in that state. Long story short: don't outrun the cache and life is good... That is if you can stand the fan noise, it's...

Time for a small update... I've now put >1000 movies in the pool and I've learnt an incredibly important lesson... DO NOT try to write multiple files simultaneously, you will pay for that in array performance. I spent the better part of a week doing batch copies out and back in to clean up...

You can mount SSD's in these trays quite easily, one little snip and you are good to go... :o

Um... What's MWR?

Time for an update... The 5 disk RAIDZ scrubs at 230 megs/s and it has no problems serving Blu-rays simultaneously to multiple PLEX clients, including a transcode for an iPod touch 4g. :)

Hi Zuhkov, It's going albet slowly... Thanks for voicing interest. :) Interesting setup you have going there, what hardware do you run on? I won't be fully up and running till next week, but today I did receive one of the SAS cables and so I was able to install the M1015 card. The M1015 was...

I am waiting on some SAS cables for the new M1015 controller. In the meantime I have made a test install of Ubuntu 10.04.4 Server 64bit. UPDATE the FW on the box, BIOS, P800 RAID card, iLO 2 - it is available in one bootable package, just burn and boot the DVD. I used the...

Hellooo... Your in Auckland, New Zealand, I'm sorry but you are pretty much screwed on shipping. Anywhere in the US is <$27 for the lot UPS Ground, or up to three drives fit in the Priority Mail Medium Flat Rate box.

Thanks for the offer, but I'm sorry I can't take that big a hit. IMO $125 is a solid deal.

I am in the process of gathering parts for a server build and I have decided I should have went with the 4TB RED's. I have over the last couple weeks bought 5 of the 3TB RED's, I've opened all of them except the one that's due to show up tomorrow from newegg... There are no issues with...

So this is my attempt to get my media into one bucket and centralize my storage and backups. I chose this box with hopes that it will be easy on power and yet have enough power to handle PLEX and ZFS. I'm using this as a learning experience, as I've not had any in depth hands on experience...

Operating System/ Storage Platform: looking at Ubuntu+ZFS CPU: Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor 3070 (2.67 GHz, 65 W, 1066 FSB) Chassis: HP DL320S - 14 LFF bays Drives: 5x WD RED 3TB + 1 or two SSD's for OS and logs RAM: 6 GB Add-in Cards: HP SmartArray P400 or P800 ---> swapping to IBM...