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    Tell me more about these HP 920Gb SAS3 SSDs

    I bought x4 of these SAS3 SSDs. HP 920gb SAS HSCP0920S5xnNMRI P/N 787177-002 12Gb/s 2.5" | eBay I sent the offer of $200each expecting to be turned down but the seller approved and I bought them. I didn't have time to think at that price (21 cents a gb). lol Doing some more research now, it...
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    FS: 2U SuperMicro SC826E16 SAS2 / Xeon E5-2658 V3 ES / 8Gb 2133Mhz / x2 240gb SSD

    Completely reset and ready to be hosted. No OS installed. Factory settings across the board. Used for a short period then upgraded to a 4U chassis. x2 Micron M500DC 240GB (mounted inside chassis for full front bays) WIPED x2 MTA9ASF51272PZ-2G1A2 MICRON 4GB PC4-17000 DDR4-2133P ECC MEMORY MODULE...
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    Easy/cheap cluster questions

    I'm not really sure if I'm really understanding how to scale easily with OS as this is a new venture for me. Say I have 2-4 cheap servers, I would like to have a way of making this use all of the processing power from all of them to do a specific task say run a Plex server. I've read some...
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    Migration Advice : 240Gb SSD RAID1 to 800GB SSD RAID1

    I'm trying to plan on migrating my 240Gb SSDs over to 800Gb SSDs. I'm using the hardware (software?) RAID in the BIOS of a Supermicro MBD-X10SRL-F (SATA chipset Intel C612). Currently running on two 240Gb Micron SSDs as my boot drives on Ubuntu 14.04 in RAID1 via BIOS. Just bought two 800GB...
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    dm-cache or flashcache for SnapRAID w/ mergerfs

    I have a big storage server. 96TB currently with 12 8TB WD drives. My OS is ran off of 2 (RAID1) 240Gb Micron Enterprise SSDs that I got a hell of deal off of on ebay. I'm looking to speed up my disk reads a little from the HDDs. 90-95% of everything done on the server is read base so no...
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    Upgrading 96TB Colocation. Need some ideas for making higher IOPS

    I recently built my 2U Supermicro server around Oct of last year. Running great but noticing that I have been having some IOwait time in the logs. We already are planning on upgrading the 2U supermicro chassis to a 4U 36bay SAS2 chassis but at the same time would like to do some work on lower...
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    My first server build: ThinkServer TS440 or PowerEdge T20

    I'm about to build my dream seedbox/home media server. The server will hosted off-site around 3-4hrs away due to local internet speeds and data caps. So I will need a very capable motherboard for remote management. I plan on having at least 20TB (x4 5TB) to start off with but future expansion...