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So an old IKEA shelf fit it perfectly.. Have drilled through dozens of rivets to get to this point. Also 3 D printed a PSU holder.

This might be of interest to some... https://www.ebay.com/itm/175098685096 (no connection with the seller).

The case moding bug has bit me and I am going to be using a Lian Li A71 case to create a GPU server. I have stripped the A71 down to the basic aluminum frame. The motherboard I am using is the Asrock H510 BTC which is not a standard MB size. It is a 20.1-in x 8.8-in (50.1 cm x 22.4 cm). The...

Thanks! The other option I am considering is to use a VM on a Windows 10 Pro PC I am building. Goal is to reduce the number of PC boxes. My current plan is to use the AMD 3600x with X570 board. I do not want to run Windows10 through ESXi since this will also be my son's gaming PC. So I am...

The WFH has given me some time to clean up the garage, and I uncovered my OpenIndiana Box which I set up about 8 years ago. Since things moved to the cloud, we stopped using it; but I want to revive it. It uses an IBM branded (ServeRAID BR10i) LSI logic RAID card for which I had flashed the...

Well the new disk is not showing SMART errors on boot (unlike the last disk). However IRST is showing that the disk is not working properly and the RAID array is degraded. Resetting the disk back to fixed resulted in the same error after a few minutes. That is why I feel it is likely the SATA...

My main rig has two SSDs in RAID0 and 4 Hard Disks in a RAID10 all on the Intel Controller on the ASUS P8P67 Pro. The motherboard was replaced after the Intel SandyBridge chip-set issue. One of the disks in the HD array started failing (SMART errors). I had an unused cold-back-up hard disk...

Thanks NJ. Nice blog BTW.

Folks: What do the infrastructure guys think about this trend? These guys are putting storage in side the server to provide scale out architectures in a box similar to what the big cloud guys (Google, Amazon etc.) do internally. They seem to be doing well in the VDI space. How do you think...

The problem is supposed to be due to heat. As you OC, it becomes hotter than SB. That may be due to the new trigate technology which may display non-linear thermal properties. While at normal operating frequencies it is cooler but as you ramp-up it is less so. It just might be the case that...

IB and SB share similar micro architecture but the process technologies are different. Apart from the feature shrink the type of transistors are also different. The highest multiplier moves up 10% and clock speed should follow. Minor changes in architecture add another 5% or so. So...

The treatment of the topics here is very detailed and probably not suited for someone new to the computer programming. It is like an encyclopedia and the examples are in a low level language which introduced a lot of detail. It is meant for a serious study of the subject of computer science...

It took them so long because they were not following the instructions from Comcast and Dell Tech Support. They did not, I repeat, did not, unplug the power cord while they waited for 5 minutes. Comcast had to send in the Geek Squad to tell them how to unplug the cord.

Folks: Quick question, when it comes to power management (spin down, sleep etc.) which version of solaris is the best (free of course < 15TB)?

It is more likely to do with microcode which will not run the CPU at a high frequency or at high voltage or at a high sustained current level. There is a lower voltage threshold below which a chip will not operate regardless of the frequency and that is unlikely to be affected by binning...