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No method is perfect. I can live with that. I have RAID-6 for a reason.

Maybe you should look at the thread topic a little closer.

I'm pretty sure you got the wrong thread with that reply.

That's when they were small. I'd like to see a graph of their drive buying numbers per year. I'm sure they could get drives direct now.

Fragmentation isn't an issue in reconstruction as far as I know. Reconstruction is like a rebuild, but worse. It's very hard on the drives. That's why they tell you to make sure you have a backup before you start. I went back and forth on 10GbE. Utimately, I decided to get two NICs and a...

Yes, but you should basically already have that courtesy of having a backup. Yeah, but there are still ways around that, like putting the two RAID controllers in the same computer and effectively doing the copy local. That's how I did the initial copy from my main server to the backup server.

Thanks to someone at STH I now know how to do it from the GUI. You have to right click on the Drive Group two levels up in the "tree", not the virtual drive. Then you pick Modify Drive Group and go from there. It gave me an estimate of 5 Days 2 Hours 50 Minutes for the operation. I ran a...

Okay, so it looks like the StorCLI migrate command is what I want to use. The PDF manual says: storcli /cx/vx start migrate <type=raidlevel> [option=<add | remove> disk=<e1:s1,e2:s2 ...> ] has this input example: storcli /c0/v3 start migrate type=r5 option=add disk=e5:s2,e5:s3 My problem is...

So I wanted to try Online Capacity Expansion to see if it really works, how long it takes, how much it degrades the arrays performance, etc. Specifically, going from a 6x6TB RAID-6 to a 8x6TB RAID-6. I see no way to do it in the MegaRAID Storage Manager software (v 15.03.01.00). Based on some...

Supposedly that's all the MCT downloads now (per what I've been told at Hardforum).

They're not buying that many drives. They said they bought 16k drives last year? I can only imaging that Dell, HP, Levovo, etc buy orders of magnitude more drives. I can't imagine that the various HDD makers don't have the capacity to support their volumes. I'm sure they're buying from...

Except the first part says, "...A new, unused item with absolutely no signs of wear..." There are signs of wear. Plus there's no mention of any imperfections in the listing. I could have gotten a refurbished 846E16 chassis for the same price and that has an expander on the backplane.

So my "new other (see details)" Supermicro chassis arrived on Friday (listing). I opened it this afternoon. I discovered it's not new, but a RMA return and some of items shown in the listing are missing, like the front panel breakout cable. I sent a somewhat tersely worded message to the...

I'm not sure... You can click "New Posts" and get a list of threads with new posts in them. I don't use "What's New" here or on any vB forum, so I'm not sure exactly what you're after.

double post or something

I decided to run some benchmarks comparing RAID-10 to RAID-6 since there was some discussion on Hardforum about RAID-10 vs. RAID-6 and which is faster. I used six of the 6TB Toshiba 7200RPM enterprise SATA drives connected to the IBM ServeRAID M5016 controller I'm using. RAID-10: ATTO style...

The data doesn't paint a very good picture of Seagate, yet they keep buying Seagate drives. Lots of people use their reports as the justification for not buying Seagate.

Or, maybe you had an encounter with some ghosts.

I'm pretty sure he meant the 80D.

He's made of money... He spends like you.

Google: Cards Against Humanity

Because there are still a few people who don't have internet access at home?

FWIW, Hardforum moved to Xenforo from vBulletin. It's okay, just not quite what I'm used to, but it's usable.

HSF came yesterday. I got it installed last night. It wasn't quite as tight of a fit as I was expecting around the CPU socket per the dimensions on the website, but there wasn't gobs of clearance either. I put the Asus Xonar DG sound card in the motherboard and made sure it works (ie: plays...

No love for ACDsee? ;) j/k

And where did you find that beast still deployed?

Why is it when an eBay seller takes my first "Make Offer" I always think I must have offered too much? :scratch: Sure, I got the $99 item for $75, but for some reason I'm always left to wonder how much less I could have paid... :skepo:

Well, you could click the link and see.

Oh, that's what you mean by greatest screen. I'm quite happy with the image quality (color, viewing angle, etc).

madVR is a video renderer that uses pixel shaders running on your GPU to scale video in a very high quality fashion. It has some other neat tricks, like changing the refresh rate of your PC to match the content you're playing, high quality dithering, etc. I use it with MPC-HC.

Which Nexus 7 are you talking about? The original or the 2nd edition one from 2013?

After looking at it closer I don't think the Norco fan wall will work unless I plan to lose the power supplies, which I don't, because it's wider. I suppose I should wait until I have it in my hands and hear what it sounds like using PWM on the fans before going all hog wild buying things to...

I actually came across something useful on reddit related to the SC846A and quieting it down. I know, I know... Try not to fall out of your chair. https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/42wbf8/supermicro_846_fanwall_replacement/

I got this swapped over and working yesterday. Windows 8.1 affords me 10bit output and 3D output capability from madVR that Windows 7 can't do. I got everything working x64 style. It was pretty straight forward from the software side. Install Windows 8.1 Pro and drivers for everything...

I guess I'll find out soon enough. Hopefully it's as good as they led me to believe. 5000RPM chassis fans sound loud (pun intended). I expect fan mods or replacement will be necessary.

So I ended up buying a Supermicro chassis on eBay after some back and forth with the seller. The folks on Hardforum talked me into it. They said the new 1200W 80+ gold power supplies are very quiet unlike the older 710/900W ones. I hope they're right. They said the Supermicro chassis are...

So in the process of building my new HTPC I happened to connect the troublesome 5 second sleep keyboard to it. It's an H97 chipset board. It has Windows 8.1 x64 installed on it. The keyboard does the same 5 second timeout on it. However, when it's running Memtest86+ the keyboard stays...

So the last piece finally came (yesterday). The CPU & HSF are now installed in the motherboard along with the RAM. I'm running Memtest86+ now. If all goes well hopefully I can Windows 8.1 install and get it swapped into the case tomorrow on my day off.

Cars and the parts in them are generally designed and tested down to -40C.

Still better than a high end AMD CPU.

Interesting, but I don't think that would clear the various cards I have in PCIe slots, it's almost 2x the price of the S524v2, and I'm not sure I want to water cool a NAS/server.

Comparing a few stripe sizes with RAID-1 using the older 5.x drivers in the Xeon system. 32k: 128k: 512k: I also spent some time looking for a good HSF for this thing since the stock Intel one is so small. The sticking point is that the HSF ultimately has to fit in a Norco RPC-4224. Per...

So the TDP is BS or the thing is going to throttle like crazy or what? Because 16C/32T chip and a lower TDP than a a 4C/8T desktop CPU seems just a tad hard to believe...

But I thought PayPal was new money. ;) Okay, but lets think about this. In order for account to have been accessed in China they'd need the password. So they require me to change the password after I log in to PayPal's main site, which the "hacker" in China could have done too because they'd...

My servers and network rack are all in the basement, so it's less of a problem for me. I ran CAT6 all over my house. Monoprice sold it as 500MHz CAT6. 10GbE is rated for 50m on CAT6 and 100m on CAT6A. CAT6 spec only requires 250MHz. CAT6A requires 500MHz. I'm not sure if the Monoprice wire...

So PayPal has decided that my access of my PayPal account from China was suspicious and is forcing me to change the password. Apparently PayPal doesn't think anyone travels internationally or something.

Thanks, I didn't recall that thread. I was doing some reading over there too. At this point I'd be good just connecting my two servers with 10GbE. I'd probably put a dual port card in the new NAS/server so I could also connect it to a switch later like the Mikrotik I linked to earlier, but...

It looks like my options are limited if I want Windows XP x64 (Server 2003 x64) support. I can't find XP x64 / Server 2003 x64 drivers for any Mellanox Connectx-2 card. The Intel x520 cards have Server 2003 x64 drivers. They're not quite as cheap as the Mellanox Connectx-2 and I don't know...

What's a "bargain" 40Gb InfiniBand setup cost if I just want to link two PCs together? I'm not sure I can saturate a 10Gb link on the one side plus the one machine still runs XP x64, and I'd rather not have to putting Windows 7 on it so I'd need drivers for XP x64. Additionally, I'd expect...

Will a Cisco Twinax SFP+ cable work in the Mellanox SPF+ port? Does coding even matter for twinax cables or is that only for optical modules?