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Hello, I am trying to understand and hear from anyone with experience putting a graphics card in a Dell R640 server. I say "graphics card" not "gpu" because I actually want to use its display outputs to run a workstation in a vm using pcie passthru. Now I had an old ATI card lying around and I...

I have a raidz2 pool of six 8TB seagate ironwolf drives ST8000VN004-2M2101. I've recently been moving large amounts of data to and from it and have noticed read errors reported by zpool status (only read errors, write and cksum values are zero). I've checked smartctl and the drives are all...

So I have taken the plunge and am building a Linux lab server around a E2100 Xeon. I have six 8TB SATA drives that I plan to put into a ZFS RaidZ2 pool. I am considering adding some L2ARC and ZIL/SLOG cache to increase IOPS and I have a 240GB M2 SSD (Corsair MP510) for that. To complete the...

I'm looking to put 6 drives, 8TB, in a ZFS Raid Z2. Should I look at 512e or 4kn drives? Looking at Seagate Ironwolf. (NE=pro drives). I've found five different current models, so it's quite confusing! This is for a home office development box. "512E" (512B emulated) ST8000VN004 ST8000NE001...

I have been trying to build a new "home lab" server around the E-2100 series for some months now but can't get the parts. And now we have the E-2200 series, probably also equally unobtainable. I thought I'd ask for any pointers towards a system builder/parts provider in the UK who may be able to...