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We're looking to build a home server to be used for, steam web cache, file server (local and internet) and ripping and hosting Blu-ray's. The hardware we're thinking about at the moment is: CPU: athlon 3000g Ram: 2*4gb ddr4 Storage: 10*600gb 15k sas + 120gb ssd Motherboard: Asus b450m micro ATX...

Hi guys, I'm trying to identify a good method of conducting a 2 way sync between a ZFS (OmiOS) array and a remote windows owned hardware array. Both have nfs and samba shares. The arays are around 20TB in size with 16TB utilization. Please don't tell me to switch the hardware windows machine...

Hi everyone, I have a question regarding a setup that I am building for an educational VDI environment. Below is the list of my current hardware that I have been approved for buying... Gigabyte R282-Z92 (shorturl.at/ruPQ6) AMD EPYC 7742 (x2 so a total of 128 cores) 64GB DDR4 LRDIMM (x32...

I want to use a hardware RAID card for my boot drive in Linux. I know, I know.... MDADM. Well, I already use MDADM for RAID 6 in my media server but I want to do hardware RAID 1 for the boot drive. (Running Linux Mint 19.2) Reason I want to use hardware RAID for the boot drive is because while...

I have (5) 10tb shucked WD EasyStore drives - 2 purchased from Best Buy and 3 purchased from WD directly. All were shucked with care, tested, and unused. I can put them back in or keep them separate. I paid $156.50 each after hawking deals. Just looking to get that back or I'll return them...

I've been using the 9260-4i happily in a Windows 7 Dell Precision box for about a year. I just upgraded to Windows 10 on a nearly identical Dell Precision, moved the card and drives over, and everything appeared to work fine at first glance. However, when the machine goes to sleep, the card...

Hello, Just moved my home array Promise TB3 to 12TB drives. I'm looking to sell 4x WD NAS Red 6TB drvies (Warranty till 2019 to 2021) As always, I include a gift (CPU, RAM, SSD, ect... just ask). Also, I have 8x 8TB that i'll be replacing as well. Ask for a bundle deal! Thanks Z...

Hey Everyone— I have a couple of EMC KTN-STL3 enclosures on the way with 45TB (15 x 3TB) in each. These will be replacing the RAIDs I have on both of my Mac Pro servers, which host my media archive in 2 different locations. The included 45TB is more than I need currently. My 2 servers currently...

I am building a new system with a Supermicro X11SPi-TF and a Xeon Silver 4208. I am trying to install Windows Server 2019 but can't seem to get past the Load Drivers stage. The system has two SSD and two HD. The SSD are plugged into the two sSATA ports and the HD are plugged into the first two...

Hi, i have recently acquired a new DL360e with a P420 raid controller. I have installed one 120gb ssd (consumer) and set up RAID 0. When i booted into the os (Vmware) and created a vm i noticed that it was running very slowly and the disk speed test (CrystalDiskMark) reported read speeds of...

Retooling my backup solution to have more space and failover potential. I have 2 1U servers left over from an older project both identical with 4 3.5" bays. I am wanting to have a somewhat large network backup target. Mainly for accessible archived storage for potential later use. I have a few...

I am out of ideas with these C240M3S systems with the 9271CV-8i. I have two of them and both have issues where the 9271CV-8i will randomly disappear, and or the VD will disappear, and or it will detach a new hard drive like its failed. This happen on reboots or warm reboots but if the server is...

So, I see chassis that are often advertised as "Hot Swappable" which, typically means they have a backplane of sorts. My question is, are drive not connected to a back plane hot swappable? For example, if I have drive connected to my Perc H310, using SSH 8087 to SATA breakout cables, would...

Seems the SMR drives have inflated cache to compensate for lower performance. The SMR drives however have really appealing densities and form factors (4tb in a 2.5” package, that’d be 96tb in a 2U 24 bay Supermicro chassis). So, first question: are they really so bad? I’m guessing the response...

I have an Areca 1280ML with 16 attached drives (4tb's right now). Its operating in RAID6 mode, with NTFS on top of them, but unfortunately the drives are starting to age and its time for me to swap them out for 8s. This would be the ideal time to change controllers and or filesystems. To...

Previous post: HERE So last year we had the opportunity to open our over stock of HGST Enterprise and WD drives for sale. I posted here and the reaction was great even though we had some small learning curves and growing pains. We've noticed a lot of our customers are in the server or...

I'm looking to upgrade my server a little bit and add on a DAS enclosure but I'm having some issues getting everything planned out before I buy stuff as I'm somewhat new to using RAID controllers and HBA cards. I'm planning on getting a rackmounted Rosewill case with hot swap bays to hold my...

At this price it's worth buying a handful, as long as the lengths (20", 24", 28", & 31") will work with your setup. I personally have 1M cables coiled up and velcro-ed together in one of my short depth cases, so these will work for at least that application. H/T @Rand__ for his post...

Hello, I have a 1u server chassis 813MTQ-441CB and the remote hands technician couldn't install the parts: MEGARAID SAS 9271-4I LSI00297 / LSICVM01 (LSI MegaRAID CacheVault Accessory Kit) we used a riser card for the RAID card but according to the documentation we need a remote mount board for...

Hi all, I'm considering setting up a Proxmox server, but I'm lost in the sea of possibilities ;) Maybe someone here has set up a similar system and could offer some advice... What I'm looking to build is primarily a file server, with some containers or VMs (internal webservers, databases with...