Depend so what your users printing uses are like, but yes they can save your company bucket loads of money via print management software etc.
Definitely worth looking into.
Also sometimes it's cheaper to upgrade all your copiers printers etc to newer models.... as changing over to newer model...
SATA cable length limit is 1metre I believe....
BUT
SATA is encapsulated within the SAS packets....so in theory your only SATA cable sould be from the expander to the backplane / drives.....
And shouldn't include the rest of the cabling ??
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I found this page on howto get these bastards to link up in esxi 5.5
Fixing Emulex 10GbE on ESXi 5.5
Seems they dont like the elxnet driver... and you have to make it run with the standard be2net driver...
removing the elxnet driver works, and the link comes up now at boot in esxi 5.5...
I run a HP ML350 G6 as a muck around workstation
Popped in 2 x old 8600GT cards.....
4 Monitors and dual quad cores with 128Gig ram makes it do all I need it to do.
;)
try on a different machine 1st,
Some controllers have issues with HPA (from memory) either completely ignoring it... or not reading it correctly.
As you have found out HDPARM is a very powerful... but also dangerous tool...
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Friend has one (I beleive it's this model) its just a simple core 2 duo board inside.
so you can in theory put any OS you want on it.
They are quiet with the original OS
I am going to wait for him to want to sell it and buy it to run Xpenology on it.
Should make a great Synology clone box I...
If you really want to be "put off" buying anything
Watch this documentary
The Fake Trade - Top Documentary Films
It's pretty bad when a company decides to make a new factory in China..... not only to have their products faked.... but when things are that bad they CLONE a Whole "Real...
What do you get with
iperf -s 172.35.255.1 -i 2 -t 20 -w 1024k -P 6
Iperf
update interval every 2 seconds
running for 20 seconds
packet size 1024k
running 6 concurrent thread
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For FreeNas, there should be no reason to go into the bios of the card.... or actually to have the bios installed on the card.
Look for threads on how to flash the card..... and just flash the firmware.... leave the bios off the card.
The card will then just act like it's more SATA ports...
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