Recent content by Apollo686

Any plans to add support for CentOS or SLES in the future?

If you want something now, Hitachi is the best. Right now I have 6x Hitachi 2TB and 6x Hitachi 3TB each in raidZ2 and they are great drives. If you are asking about the best drive that will come out in 6 months, wait 6 months for an answer...

Just got Napp-It installed and I'm really happy with it, setup was so much easier than without using it!

Also, it's worth noting that if a HW Raid 5 on an LSI 9260 will yield better performance or fewer problems I will go with that rather than RaidZ. Thoughts?

Thanks for the tip. I'm using Solaris 11; I will have to look into TRIM support for vdev's unless anyone knows more about this.

I'm creating an array for ESXi storage and planning on using SSD's. I know they can be used for L2ARC and ZIL, but I'm wondering if anyone has experience using an all SSD array. I'm planning to run them off LSI 9211's (flashed with IT FW) and just wondering if there are any configuration issues...

AMT is separate from IPMI (AMT is consumer/workstation while IPMI is server based). Neither is supported on this system. Unless you need out of band management, I would opt for Xeon/ECC over Remote Management.

The drives should perform fine in raid5. Search for wdidle3 and set the head parking time to 300seconds. See if it fixes your problem, it should.

It needs 120hz input, which is different from a 120hz output. A lot of the non-3d tv's will display 120 or 240hz but they are still only taking a 60hz input and then doubling or quadrupling the frames. This will not work for 3d. It also needs to be able to sync to the glasses so that the...

Stop spreading this information, it's wrong. The extra two pins are both grounds and the power available is the same for both cards.

I tried to flash my XFX 6950 and got a subsystemids mismatch in atiwinflash. Ran in an elevated CMD prompt and worked great, unlocked to 6970 and ran stable.

Performance is fantastic, everything runs very quickly. The reason for the LSI 9260 would be that it supports the native stripe size for these SSD's. The 9240 that I am using only goes up to 64kb stripes and thus I am not getting optimal performance out of the drives. Hopefully I can pick up a...

I'm using an LSI 9240-4i with 4x Intel X25-E 32gb in Raid0. I have heard that I would get better performance switching to the LSI 9260 but I haven't tried that yet. I agree that dollar to gig is much better on spindle drives now, but I really think we are going to see SSD dolar/gig marks...

I would buy now. The update is likely to remove the ability to flash to 6970 and they are switching from expensive VRM's to cheaper ones to save money. As a customer I would buy before they do this.

Just got my system setup and very impressed with the SSD performance. I don't think spindle drives will be around much longer: