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Hi! I'm new to looking into hba/raid cards to expand my storage space in my desktop, can anyone recommend which card based off of which chipset should i buy just to add more drives to my desktop? I'll be using a couple of 4, 5 and 6tbs for this card. I just need my windows 10 to be able to...

Hello all, I am looking to build a high-capacity (24 drive) NAS. It will be storage-only for mostly media and backups; all transcoding, VM, and other server needs will be handled by a separate system. I plan on running FreeNAS. I don't think I will need a very powerful processor or very much...

Hi all, I am interested in building a workstation or server that can tackle the above tasks and have a few GPUs knocking about. I have read numerous guides online, but most tend to advocate GTX/RTX and desktop hardware etc. I am in a relatively uncommon situation as I am an IT broker (primarily...

Long time lurker however I have an issue I haven't been able to find a solution for. Bit of a long shot but here goes... Trying to install a PCI IOFX 420GB SSD card and hit a roadblock. Updated to latest version of VSL driver and IOFX firmware I could find and they just don't talk. In cmd...

So I recently bought a Dell PowerEdge R710 that I was hoping to install either UnRaid or FreeNAS on. Within one of those I was wanting to run either Plex, Emby, or Jellyfin and a few other things maybe within virtual machines. The server I have now has a PERC6i raid controller connected to 2...

Hi , i am a student i am planning to build a freenas for my home data backup and plex purpose . Can anyone suggest me any power efficient processor for this build . suggest anything except atom c servers processors . Please suggest some processor which supports ECC memory . And not a Atom...

Hi there. I have recently started building a homelab based on a custom NAS and a few R710's. I am looking to upgrade to 10G networking (point to point, NAS to workstation R710) and am wondering if the ConnectX-2 cards (mnpa19-XTR) are still any good? I've heard that they are plug and play in...

Hello, I have a SN150/s1130 PCIe NVMe Drive that I attempted to update the firmware. There appears to be 4 slots on the device, and I attempted to flash it twice, using different slot numbers. First Slot2, then Slot4. When I flashed it to Slot2, it didnt work, but a powercycle brought it...

Hi all, Found this deal on eBay, was hoping someone can give some advice on it, mainly, is hardware like this still worth it etc. Dell Poweredge R710 2x Intel Xeon X5690 6C 12T 3.47GHz 16GB DDR3 RAM 6x 3.5" SATA/SAS bays Included with 5x300GB 10k SAS drives 2x870W Gold rated PSU Perc6/I RAID...

So I saw an ebay auction for a Supermicro 847 server. One interesting thing about it is they use a really different hdd caddy from what usually equipped by supermicro. Cisco UCS C240 M3 2x 6-Core Xeon E5-2620 2.0GHz 64GB RAM No HDD Please Read | eBay Looking at those pics, we can see the...

Hey all, I used the instructions to cross flash two HP Connextx-3 cards QSFP to Mellanox MCX354A-FCBT's. I then installed two Fiberstore (FS) QSFP-BD-40G modules into one card configured as dual Ethernet. No dice, the link won't come up and the lights on the card stay off. Things I have...

I've run out of ports on my SG-300 POE switch (swore 10 ports would be more than enough for my needs :confused:) and am looking to upgrade to a better L3 switch with >=24 ports. The tentative plan is to keep the SG-300 and convert to L2 mode to run the 3 APs in my house. So I've looked around...

Hi all, last few months have been storage hell with RAID issues on a number of servers I look after. Clearly I am doing something wrong and I'm hoping this is a safe place to ask for some advice. Back story: I have looked after a dozen or so "small business" servers for over fifteen years with...

First off, new user, first post, let me know if this is the wrong place to post this. TL;DR: Can't get any OS to see drives, though BIOS and PERC see them. Can't figure out how to install drivers. So I got my hands on a used R410 for free through my work. I wanted to learn about servers and...

Thought I would elicit some advice from the group regarding an upgrade I am working on. Current Setup: Synology 1812+ 4x8TB RAID5 + 845 DC Evo 960GB as read cache for Media Storage (The spinning drives will be repurposed for an offsite backup) 2x PM853t 960GB Raid1 for NFS ESXi and Docker...

Disclaimer: I am not an IT professional but I like messing/learning/building and making my wife mad as I spend $$$ on our home network. She thinks that having a huge rack server with tons of stuff is only for bussines environment. Well, not for me. So I will keep spending :) Currently, my...

Hello mighty gods of information, I'm in need. I recently had a dedicated circuit installed (Level3) and then had a networking services company (BlackBox) run a cable drop for the ISPs equipment to my server room. The issue is that we're paying for a dedicated 100 mbps UP and 100 mbps DOWN, but...

Hello, I've obtained recently two working HP SmartArray P400 from some decomissioned servers with the 512MB cache. I want to use one of them to build a file server where to store the video camera recordings of several cameras of my shop and then stream it to my phone. I've been using a...

Whenever my unit is powered off but still plugged in, the fan spins at full speed, indefinitely, until I press the power button to being booting, at which point the fan dramatically slows down. Aside from being very annoying, everyone I've talked to on homelab on Reddit have said that this...

Hello, I'm a new member here... but man oh man... this forum increases my expenses.. i keep buying stuff xD So my current server exists of: 2x E5-2650v3 128GB DDR4 ECC Registered Ram (2133Mhz) Windows 2012 R2 Datacenter 64bit (Being a student gives nice discounts) | Hyper-V 6x WD Red 3TB...