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I personally would advise against putting anything of serious value into a tight place surrounded by any form of water system. (sods law has a nasty habit of paying us a visit, a told you so moment) Attic crawl space?

That looks a fair bit more reasonable. P3700s are pretty stout drives, for what you paid for it, I wouldn't be too concerned based on these numbers.

If you re-read my post, I did state that, but that counter ALSO includes other scenarios too. When I have a few minutes I'll see if I can dig up the blurb on that particular smart counter, it is most definitely not explicitly unsafe power-offs, just something I remember from a few years back...

@Whaaat - IIRC shutdowns do not directly relate to power-cycles. A shutdown can simply be a reboot/crash where the power isn't cycled as well as actually powering-off.

There's a clicky trick to getting it to burn the config into the drive. I can't remember exactly, but I used to just randomly click on some buttons and it would work, something like that, not helpful at all I know.

The 282 power-cycles would have forced me to do a return. Fair enough it ain't a spinner, but still. Looks like it was used in a workstation rather than a server, and therein lays the conundrum.... ex-workstation hardware is often a bad investment.

As stated, relative to workload. However it would not be prudent of I to presume the workload is not above and beyond basic requirements due to old tech, thus should not be an issue. Old Sandy and Ivy were a nightmare in the QPI department compared to Haswell and later, I once had detailed...

On those older xeons, latency will really tank, do some comparison benchmarks and you shall see what I mean by 'tank'. However for general use it should not be an issue, the bandwidth shall still be there, but then again the point of NVME is 'fast low-latency storage'... really depends on your...

I'll upgrade my 12tb drives in backup array when we reach the 24tb mark... FC-MAMR sounds interesting, however I feel that it would need some production use history under its belt before it is openly embraced, something to keep an eye on I guess.

Any news on if the Milans will have the same vendor-lock-fuse built into them too?

Supermicro Link I've sent an email out, looking forward to filling out some slots in one of my H12 builds. :)

Cheapest reliable way to hold up gear is some steel stranded-wire with crimps (ebay cheap as chips), pull to the right length so it goes from rear of device to rear of rack, create a small loop at each end of wire for rack bolts and anything on the device to loop through and then crimp. Now your...

There is no AMD advantage whatsoever with 'raid', it is all software. I would stick to the OS provided software-stack for software raid configuration and management. AMD drivers in general leave a lot to be desired.

When it comes to the 'media', always have popcorn ready and be prepared to read between the lines. Since the invention of newspaper, radio to television to the internet - disinformation has always been the primary perogative. It assists in the control and flow of wealth, the destruction and rise...

You won't see a raid mode per-se in the bios on that board. Once you set the pcie slot assigned to the hyper card to x4x4x4x4 (bifurcate), then you need to define your raid at os software level, be it linux or windows.

You don't normally require the adhoc installation of USB drivers as long as Windows has a net connection it should download WHQL drivers from Microsoft's online driverstore via the Windows Update channel automatically unless you have a local WSUS installation in which case you need to modify the...

Most enterprise SSD drives are indeed overprovisioned at the firmware level. Sadly I believe Dell never actually underprovisioned that particular model, purely because they gave customers the option to purchase different models right at the start.

Was pulled into an online conference where a bunch of us old farts were discussing ideas... at some point we moved onto the reminiscience rollercoaster... Thought it would be good banter for members here... Well, my first paid 'tech' job was VHS porno duplication at a rather seedy backalley...

I think we really should have a policy of 'beer first' with newcomers, LMFAO

I kill it every few days, but say 3 days out of seven it doesn't do much. Being a public forum and all, one does tend to have the sensibility to not disclose the inner workings of their income avenues. I sometimes do wish I did everything just for fun, wouldn't that be something! Being a...