Recent content by bacos

There are all sorts of good pictures around the web for the SC847 cases. I think Supermicro's site has some as well. The build quality is rather high - it's not a Dell and not everything is perfect but it is mostly well thought out. I have been using Seagate 1TB drives with various models of...

hurray! thanks dude. santools guy is working on an enhancement that will do device name -> enclosure/slot mapping for the SM backplanes. should be a couple weeks. challenge at this point is getting SAS-based SSDs to use for slogs that will co-exist on the backplane. The OCZ Vertex 2 Pros are...

btw, where is this version of lsiutil that works with 2008s? LSI claims no such thing exists, at least when I asked them a month ago. it isn't 1.62. filed a RFE, and sun basically said "not our tool, and we're not going to write one". I've been using a tool called smartmon-ux, see...

On the other hand, SMC is not a tier-one company and doesn't have the resources to throw at tuning and tweaking this stuff to utter optimum efficiency. I think they struggle just to get stuff out the door. Plus they're a motherboard company, this whole JBOD thing is new to them. From all I can...