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Recent content by Acejam

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    Trouble setting up Hyper-V network

    Check your DNS servers. 9 times out of 10 - if you can connect to the network but can't join a domain, you DNS server is set incorrectly. This is an easy thing to overlook, especially if you're setting a static IP. Also, check event viewer, there should be some more detailed messages in there...
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    ICH10R RAID5 dropped one of my drives, folding@home to blame? (+How to align RAID10?)

    After much reading, it looks like there have been a lot of issues with the Intel Matrix Storage Driver 8.9 driver causing "random" failed drives, which appears to be my exact issue. Each time, the drive that fails is random, and is on a different port. I've already tested my drives, both before...
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    ICH10R RAID5 dropped one of my drives, folding@home to blame? (+How to align RAID10?)

    I'm back! My RAID5 array on my ICH10R broke again today! Same deal, computer was left on for a day or two folding, then I come home from work today and the Intel Matrix Storage Manager reports a RAID volume is degraded. I only have 1 RAID volume on this machine. I had even aligned this...
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    ICH10R RAID5 dropped one of my drives, folding@home to blame? (+How to align RAID10?)

    I re-created my RAID5 array and it took 2.5 days for Windows to format the volume. It definitely didn't take this long before, so perhaps that was part of my issues? (then again, the drives were new at the time) This time, I also tried aligning my partition. I opened up diskpart, and used the...
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    ICH10R RAID5 dropped one of my drives, folding@home to blame? (+How to align RAID10?)

    Cool, so it looks like you just took the latest BIOS ROM and dropped in a new version the Intel Matrix Storage ROM? Where did you find the newer Intel ROM from? Now that I think of it, I probably have an *older* version of my BIOS. Perhaps I should try updating to the latest version first...
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    ICH10R RAID5 dropped one of my drives, folding@home to blame? (+How to align RAID10?)

    Yeah in all honesty I'm not sure if I want to go hacking at my BIOS.... FWIW, I have a vanilla Asus P6T board.
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    ICH10R RAID5 dropped one of my drives, folding@home to blame? (+How to align RAID10?)

    I ran Samsung's ESTOOLS against the drive last night, and did a full diagnostic scan, which took ~6-7 hours. It reported back no errors. Under IMSM it also reports that the drive is now missing. Apparently after rebooting, it's been kicked out of the array. I opened up CrystalDiskInfo and I'm...
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    ICH10R RAID5 dropped one of my drives, folding@home to blame? (+How to align RAID10?)

    Hey all, Long story short, I picked up (4) HD204UI's about 2-3 weeks ago. I set them up in a RAID5, which yielded me ~6TB of usable space. Yes, I know RAID5 isn't the best for performance, but this is mostly for data storage. Yesterday for the first time since adding the new array, I fired...
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    ESXi vs Hyper-V for new lab setup, VM questions

    I got ESXi up and running again without issue. I used the mkesxiaio script to create a bootable USB flash drive, which contained a custom oem.tgz for my Asus P5B-E's Atheros L1 Gigabit NIC. Worked like a charm, and I've got my 2x1TB drives pooled together in the same datastore now using an...
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    ESXi vs Hyper-V for new lab setup, VM questions

    Yes, I'm well aware of the Ubuntu/enterprise thing. I just wanted to test it out, since I'm a big fan of Ubunutu desktop/server for dev/coding/etc. I already have backups of my desktop's RAID5 array on an external HDD. This would be a 2nd backup, which, I don't even really need. All of my...
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    ESXi vs Hyper-V for new lab setup, VM questions

    Hey all, I'm in the process of setting up a lab at home to tinker around with some VM's and learn a few things. I already use Server 2008 R2 w/ Hyper-V at work, and also use SCVMM to manage all of it. However, this is a very basic testing environment, and we don't really get into the advanced...
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    Looking for input on my home media storage solution

    Do I need to worry about aligning my own partitions using the ICH10R onboard Intel RAID? With a single drive, Windows 7 x64 should take care of it - but what about using the ICH10R controller in RAID mode?
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    Looking for input on my home media storage solution

    Just did some basic benchmarks. Both tests were done using a "quick format" on the volume in Windows 7 x64. I also enabled write-back caching in the Intel Matrix Storage Console. (for both tests) RAID10: RAID5: Thoughts?
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    Looking for input on my home media storage solution

    Just got back from MicroCenter. I swapped out my 2 HD203WI's and picked up 4 HD204UI's. Backing up important data now. Now the question is - RAID5 or RAID10? Once I build this array, it would be nice to just "set it and forget it". I'm leaning towards RAID5 - so I have the extra space if ever...
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    Looking for input on my home media storage solution

    Wow.... I just checked MicroCenter's site...the HD203WI isn't even listed anymore. Like I mentioned before, they had 1 left in stock when I went there on Saturday, but the stores in other states still had a few here and there. I just checked their site again, and it seems they have HD204UI's...
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