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    controller recommendation

    For 40 HDs at the lowest cost: New MB with two PCIe x16 (can be x8), integrated video and 6 SATA ports ====================================================== Controllers: 2 x M1015 flashed in IT mode - $100 each or less if you can wait for a deal one Intel 24 ports SAS expander - $250 or less...
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    1st SAS Card Install

    I know that it may sounds silly but make sure you have plugged well the SFF8087 connector until you hear a click.
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    1st SAS Card Install

    You probably should try sasflash -o -testlsall This should provide you the status on all 8 ports. If not devices recognized it will display Link Down - so the possible reason is wrong cable (but the one you bough appears to be the "right" cable)
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    Hard drive capacity growth slowing?

    I think that now we should worry about the returning to the previous HDs cost first and only then we can begin to worry about the future.
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    Flashing IBM m1015 to LSI 9240-8i issues

    Why you do not flash in DOS mode. Make bootable flash drive (unetbootin) and go from there. And disable any hardware feature in the BIOS (including the onboard SATA controllers and LANs) before trying the flash procedure
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    3TB GPT Drives "go RAW" Randomly in SAS Server

    I always had impression that the LSI1068e (and 1064e) based controllers (such as your 3442E-R) do not support 2TB+ hard drives and thought this was a nice way for LSI to make sure you will buy newer ones bases on SAS2008 or better.:mad: Perhaps the fact that you use expander somehow masked this...
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    When is the hard drive shortage going to be over?

    Do not forget about thst one - http://www.storagereview.com/seagate_wins_525_million_arbitration_award_western_digital That for sure will facilitate the return to the normal....NOT for a lo...ng time
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    HDD NAS Dilemma - Mix drives?

    You know that for a home storage they are other solutions that allow you to mix any kind of drives (size, interface, speed, etc) while providing a single drive protection - FlexRAID, unRAID...
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    Buy HP Microserver or homebuild for ZFS box?

    You can also get a low power ECC system if you select AMD - many of the Asus motherboards support ECC, most if not all of the recent AMD CPUs also provide the ECC functionality for "free". On the Intel side - there will be Atom grade ECC capable CPUs to be released in the next few months, but...
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    Help Me Setup a Home Server

    Kids will be kids so why not try to remove the "power switch" for the time being. 1. All the recent hardware and PSUs can support a power up by the keyboard (you will need to read your motherboard manual to see how to set it up) 2. You have a home network and you have a router. This router may...
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    MSI 870A Fuzion fried transistor?

    "Nikos" are Niko Semiconductor Co. and their website is here: http://english.niko-sem.com/in/front/bin/home.phtml
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    Home-Built NAS Questions

    This card is a different animal provided that you use it in a motherboard with proper PCI-X slots (64 bits either 133MHZ or 100MHz) The problem is that PCI-X has been kind of obsoleted - you still can find motherboards with 64 bit 133MHz or 100MHz slots but they will be very expensive if...
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    IBM ServeRAID M1015 Solaris JBOD?

    This thread is about Solaris and I am not using that so cannot comment. But no problems with a single M1015 with IT firmware in Unraid - spin-down work fine for me (I have only 4 drives on the first SFF8087)
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    Hand-me-down upgrades for my GA-MA790GP

    It is good that you have your signature - otherwise GA-MA790GP is not a valid MB number. The one from you signature will take the CPU you want to use - but make sure to flash the BIOS in the existing system beforehand. How successful overclocking it is different question. Now - the puzzling...
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    Recommendations on a power meter

    P3 Kill A Watt Electricity Load Meter and Monitor $17 shipped after promo EMCKAHA74 (expires at 11:59pm PT on 10/1/2011) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882715001
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