Which buyer did you get yours from?I tested an HGST TravelStar z7k500 attached to the HBA. Not a thorough test by any means, but a quick Atto test yields expected "direct access" results ..
Still not convinced ?
Intel Xeon E5-2670 Deal and Price Tracking
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FWIW: Pass through seems to work. I am not sure if there are going to be any longer term data corruption and i'm not sure a way to test that but so far so good.
SAS card and Nic passed through.
3 600gb 15K sas drives in a stripe in windows 7 (software raid), and my internet connection. 300MB/s sounds about right with 3 spindles.
I am going to swap out the cable tomorrow morning as I see 300-350 off my desktop vs the 212 on the cap.
Passing through 4 cores I was able to transcode a VC-1 bluray @ 10MB to multiple clients. CPU was hitting the roof but it worked vs the E5-2620 and E5-2418L
SAS card and Nic passed through.
3 600gb 15K sas drives in a stripe in windows 7 (software raid), and my internet connection. 300MB/s sounds about right with 3 spindles.
I am going to swap out the cable tomorrow morning as I see 300-350 off my desktop vs the 212 on the cap.
Passing through 4 cores I was able to transcode a VC-1 bluray @ 10MB to multiple clients. CPU was hitting the roof but it worked vs the E5-2620 and E5-2418L
If you want a workstation, dell t5600 or t7600 barebones. Servers I have not come across many good deals for barebones lately. I like supermicro boards but you need to be sure to get the right HSF for them, some use narrow ilm and some are standard.
I grabbed an open box SuperMicro X9DRD-if for $262 off Newegg, but it looks like they're currently out. I couldn't find a better deal on a board.
Just had my best offer of 2 x $150 accepted for the SR0KX/C2 stepping. From this seller: INTEL XEON E5-2670 2.60GHz SR0KX PROCESSOR (Listing is $175)
The Intel R1304GZ4GC is a pretty solid product, not super cheap, but brand new with dual power supplies in a 1U based FF for $750 -- Intel R1304GZ4GC Server System 1U Rack, Socket R, DDR3 ECC New V2 Tech Series
Intel® Server System R1304GZ4GC Specifications
You can easily add raid modules for HW based raid, as well as mezzanine NIC modules to save PCIE slots as well.
Intel® Server System R1304GZ4GC Specifications
You can easily add raid modules for HW based raid, as well as mezzanine NIC modules to save PCIE slots as well.
Just saw this one (different stepping) for $139.99 + a bit of shipping: Intel Xeon Sr0H8 E5-2670 8 Core 2.60 Ghz 20M Cache No BO.
Those are the same stepping as I got from the same seller. They have a VT-d bug and don't officially support it but so far mine have worked perfectly (passing both HDD and NICs through).
It's called the dell c6220It would be really cool if a motherboard vendor had a M/B that could be used with this CPU, which could be used in a C6100.
It would make a cool upgrade option for all those C6100s out there.
