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Hi, I was looking at this drive and seller is saying it will only work on Linux and not Windows. I tried to Google that, but didn’t find anything…would anyone know why that would be the case and if so, anyway to make it work on Windows? The seller did not have any other info. Thank you!

Hi, would anyone know how I can get the most recent software for this switch? It's currently running 6.0(2)U3(4) which is close to 10 years old! Thank you!

Hi, I recently acquired this MB with a TR 1950X processor and went through the bios, but did not see an option to turn on PBO. I know this is an older board, but googling the issue, others seem to have the option, but I’m just not seeing it anywhere, I’m running the most recent bios. Any...

Hi, looking to purchase one of these and wondered if anyone here has had any experience with them? I would like to use it as a JBOD on a Windows Server box. I read somewhere that these come configured as iSCSI and cannot be changed to JBOD without some special software which I probably won’t...

Hi, I have a Dell 2700w rack UPS and I would like to set it to High Efficiency mode. It's currently in Normal mode. I'm able to get into settings from the control panel on the unit, but can't seem to change the settings. I've also tried to reset the settings to defaults, but can't seem to do...

Hi, I have a Threadripper 1950X system and I'm trying to run 128GB of RAM using a mix of 4 Ripjaws V 3600C16 sticks and 4 RipJaws V 4000C18 sticks. The 3600C16 sticks are rated to run at 1.35V and the 4000C18 sticks are rated at 1.4V. Is it safe to run the 1.35V sticks at 1.4V? When mixing...

Hi, brand new drive. crystaldiskinfo is showing temp of 50 degrees. Is this normal? It’s not shucked so running in upright position is original case. Thanks!

Hi, running above with a 5950X and the latest BIOS 3601. The kit I have is the 4 stick G.Skill Trident Z Neo F4-3600C18Q-128GTZN and it’s on the board QVL. But I can’t get it to boot at anything higher than 3200. I’ve also tried Ryzen Dram Calculator, but still no go. Anyone else have this issue...

Hi, I’ve been testing StorageSpaces and found that the default settings leads to horrible performance. I am testing a 12 x 3 TB pool with dual parity and using the GUI to create a virtual disk, I was getting 3-4 MB/s write speed. After some googling, I found that the Interleaved parameter has...

Hi, I have a home built with the above setup and I'm trying to figure out how to get the system to recognize new hot plug drives. When I add new drives to the enclosure, they are not recognized until I reboot the system. "Refreshing" in Storage Spaces does not bring up the drives. Is there...

Hi, my ReadyNAS became unresponsive and I had to hard reboot the device. When the device rebooted, it looks like I lost my volume. When I log into the admin screen, I see the message “Remove inactive volumes to use the disk. Disk #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6” Any suggestions on what I can do to recover...

Hi, I have a Dell Latitude 5400 laptop with a i7-8665U CPU and HT is enabled in BIOS, but in Windows, it’s showing Cores: 4 and Logical Processors: 4. I’ve googled a bunch, but can’t find any references to a setting within Windows to change this. Has anyone seen this before and any idea how I...

Hi, was wondering if the group here can help guide me in the right direction: 1) I have 75-100 TB's of data than I need to keep online or near-line. 2) These data sets do not change and seldom deleted 3) Currently, we are storing them in a large RAID 6 array, and have a duplicate array for...

Hi, has anyone been able to get SR-IOV working on an X399 motherboard? I'm trying to passthrough a LSI 2308-8e SAS card to a Hyper-V vm running FreeNAS, but have not has much success. I have a Gigabyte Aorus Gaming motherboard with the latest bios. I've enable IOMMU in bios, but Server 2016...

Hi, I purchased a WS-C4948E-S switch off ebay...does anyone have IOS 15.2 firmware for this unit? Thanks!

Hi, I have a 3 phase 208v PDU which comes with a 4 prong L15-30 plug that I would like to use at home. is there a way to re-wire the plug and attach a new plug so it works on a standard home outlet? I tried wiring ground to ground, hot to one of the hots on the PDU and connecting neutral to...

Hi, is there a way to bring an array back online after it has been “offlined” via the web interface? I know I can reboot my server and that will do it, but is there a way either via the CLI or the web interface? Thanks!

Hi, I have a 1882 card with a RAID 6 array running on Windows Server 2016 and when I rebooted my server, the array came back up as degraded and two disks which were part of the array are reported as “free”. I’ve tried to reboot again hoping it will re-recognize these disks, but no luck. Any...

Hi, I am running Server 2016 on a threadripper 1950x with a Aorus X399 MB and with the most recent drivers/bios/Windows updates, I find that the system will not throttle when it is idle. Eg. CPU-z shows the multiplier at 37 all the time. I know when I first built the system, this multiplies...

Hi, is there a way to install the AMD X399 chipset drivers on Server 2016? It seems the installer just hangs/closes. When I re-try, it says an instance is already running...Thanks so much!

Hi, my Server 2016 machine crashed and upon reboot, one of the data disks which was formatted as REFS is now showing up as RAW. Any tips on how to recover? While I have a backup for most of the important files, my family pictures from the past year were not backed up (yes, shame on me). Any...

Hi, does anyone have a link for this? I retail drivers on Samsung's website do not work. Thanks!

Hi, does anyone have any info on ECC memory support? Wanted to confirm that ECC memory operates in ECC mode when installed. Someone had posted on Reddit that on some boards, ECC memory is supported, but will operate as non-ECC. Thanks!

Hi, with used LTO4 and 5 tape libraries coming down in price, I thought it might be fun to have one for my home network. Does anyone have any recommendations for a backup software solutions that supports Tape Libraries that is relatively inexpensive? I don't need anything industrial strength...

Would someone be able to confirm is this is only available on server 2016 and Windows 10, but not the older Server 2012r2? Thank you!

Hi, I have a couple of shared folders located on a hard drive that I need to retire. If I simply drag and move these folders to a new hard drive, will my existing shares/user permissions/etc. go with the move? Or will I need to re-share the folders and setup permissions all over again...

Hi, does anyone know if the built in server backup software in server 2012r2 will work with tape libraries? Or will I need to buy additional 3rd party software? I am looking to purchase a sas unit. Thanks, hammer

Hi, I have two pc's next to each other that I would like to hook up such that if I reboot pc A, then pc B is reset. (I say reset because I don't need it to reboot the OS, just a physical reset is what I'm looking for). I would like this to occur not through software but via some hard wiring...

Hi, I have some unused 10G NIC's and want to see if there's a way to install them into a computer and turn that PC into a switch. I need to run Windows based software for driver support of the NIC's, such as Server 2012. This is a picture of what I am hoping to accomplish: [PC1]...

Hi, I would like to connect my Server 2012 machine to a new, second network which will only be used for local file sharing with no internet access passing through this second network. My main network is 192.168.1.x/255.255.255.0. The second network will run on a second NIC on the machine with...

Hi, I would like to use infiniband to connect a standalone windows box to an esxi 5.0 host. The goal is to have a super fast connection between the two so that the esxi host can have fast access to the raid array in the standalone windows box. Can someone recommend the best way to accomplish...

Hi, I have a SC847E16-JBOD hooked up to an Areca 1880x card, but due to the loud noise of the SC847, I'd like to only turn it on only when I need to. The problem is that it's used by a VM on an ESXi box that I cannot reboot at will. The 1880x is setup as hardware pass through to a Server 2008R2...

Hi, I have a Dell system which came with a Samsung 830 SSD. I would like to update the firmware, but Samsung SSD Magician does not recognize this drive and Dell is not providing any updates. Any ideas? Thanks, Hammer!

Hi, I will be installing a Supermicro SC847E16-RJBOD1 this weekend and wanted to see if anyone had any thoughts on how I might be able to set the unit up so that I can power it up and down remotely. The unit will be connected to an Areca 1880x card that is "hardware passed through" to a...

Hi, is there a way to make ESXi rescan available iSCSI targets before in boots up certain VM's? I have a "first" VM running Windows Server 2008R2 with MS iSCSI target 3.3. This VM serves the other VM's drives via iSCSI. The problem I have is that even though I have set auto power on on the...

Hi, I am trying to set up an AIO using ESXi 5.0. My system is a dual procession Xeon with 48 GB of memory, an Areca 1880i RAID card with 8 3TB Hitachi 5K3000 drives, all in an Intel Chassis with an Intel S5520HCT motherboard. I have set up Windows Server 2008 R2 with hardware pass through of...

Hi, I installed ESXi on an Intel dual Xeon server motherboard with a 2 TB 5900 RPM Seagate hard drive connected to one of the ICH10R SATA ports on the motherboard and a 160GB Intel G2 SSD on another ICH10R SATA port. I have two VM's installed on this. First, Windows Server 2008 R2 on the SSD...

Hi, I have a RAID6 array with 5 3TB drives on an Areca 1880i card and would like to expand that array to 6 drive. I added the 6th drive and expanded the raidset and all that went smoothly such that after the re-striping, the array is "Normal". However, my volume set still only reports a 9TB...

Hi, has anyone had any luck flashing this with LSI firmware? I flashed to the latest LSI and found that after do so, the controller no longer works with the intel axx4 and axx6 drive cages, both the exp (expander) and non-expander versions. Also, after the flash, the card on boot still says...