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    HBA vs. JBOD/ZFS vs. Optimizing Hardware RAID on x3650 M5

    I'm trying to fix up a couple of old Lenovo x3650 M5 servers for storage servers (primarily for video). The hardware RAID (ServeRAID M5210 with 4GB cache and BBU) seems to do a great job of obtaining high sequential read/write performance to a RAID5 with 5 drives, but I've obtained better random...
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    [Help] ServeRaid M5210 no longer working after firmware upgrade

    Hi All, After years of no issues I decided to check for a firmware upgrade and stumbled upon: Version: 24.12.0-0039 , 09/01/2017 and figured hey it's a recent one. Went over here: IBM Support and downloaded the .exe Ran the .exe and selected 'update'; two minutes after pressing update it...