HELLO!!
I picked up a SuperMicro MicroCloud 5038ML-H8TRF it's a 3U with 8x nodes, each packing an X10SDL-F
The plan is to use it as a lab to test/train with various hypervisors and VSAN (each node has 2x3.5)
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I have a APC smart UPS 2500 tower that is silent when on the utility power.... small fan when on batteries.
I also just picked up a used APC smart UPS 3000 2U (part of a cheap rack I picked up) it is nearly silent... slight hum when on utility power.
Both run on a simple 48V DC connection (same...
So, I decided my FreeNAS boxes are way, way way too old. They are all X8 era stuff, around 10 years old.
My needs have grown and changed some.
Can something like a Xeon D or Atom3xxx handle a hard FreeNAS box and saturate 10G with ISCSI or NFS?
Im considering something like the 5019D8-TR12P...
I seem to recall that samsung consumer drives and LSI/Avago cards do not get along well.
Im guessing thats your problem right there
A Raid card will provide a VERY slight (if any) boost to speed in random IO. It will not increase sustained speeds.
I would not recommend running a RAID card for...
light foam is usless by itself.
your better off having the local hardware store cut some plywood and leaning the boards againts the server... itll keep the noice "in"
(noise will reverberate and cancel out some of itself... the more you seal the box the better...but it does needs to breathe for...
I have a bunch of the M165 units around my house/office.
people often said it sounded like I was underwater or windy....
I got sick of it and decided to just throw money at a nice unit.
got the PLT V5100, its pretty awesome... wish I got the model with the charging stand as the micro USB cover...
I am the owner of two businesses...
IT support for small businesses (still open, so far not affecting bottom line) good news since this is what pays the bills!
and a vinyl Decal business that has flat lined... just a side thing to buy cars parts.... and now that things are slow I can install my...
I have a 1050 in my HTPC, fast enough and does 4k decoding to help the i5 that would otherwise struggle...
and because its my living room I had to see... it does in fact, play crysis.
lol
Im going through another Supermicro Failure... my home ESXI threw a purple screen and wont boot now.
https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/supermicro-s-post-hangs-on-code-42.28037/
In early January my old DL180G6 HomeNAS decided to fail and then didnt even try to post, just hung...
hey, like most here Im pretty technical... but why would you want to format your drives to or from 4k instead of 512?
I thought we only went to 4k for max amount of data in a certain number of addressable sectors... but is there another reason?
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