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    help with LSI 3801e (1068e) only seeing 1st drive on each port!?

    I wanted to answer this so hopefully someone who runs into a similar problem can find it through google. It was a firmware problem on the cards themselves. With their old FW they were only showing one drive per 8088 port, regardless how many drives were actually there. Updating the bios/FW...
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    help with LSI 3801e (1068e) only seeing 1st drive on each port!?

    I have two LSI 3801e 8 external port (2 8088) PCIe cards in my new ESX machine I'm building. I am running the 8088 cables into a homemade DAS out of a 4u case. Right now I am only seeing whatever drive ends up on the first sata cable that breaks out of the 8087 4-lane SAS cable. Does anyone...
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    RAID SAN/NAS setup help. ZFS or HW? rdy to give up.

    Those drives are being used for a RAID10 array running VMs on ESX. SSDs are good but they are also far more expensive per GB for redundant storage. 1GB of mirrored SSD storage would cost nearly 1000$. Its getting really close to being worth it, just not yet. For now I'm using a SSD in...
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    Port bonding/LAG and 10GbE questions (windows and ESX).

    Right now the drives are going to be the "weak-link". It would take SSDs to saturate the 10gb link (or more spindles then I'll probably ever use). Given that its primarily a cable length issue. pool speeds using DD-Bench are thus: RAIDz2 12TB pool: 400MB/s write, 500-550MB/s read RAID10...
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    Port bonding/LAG and 10GbE questions (windows and ESX).

    I am trying to figure out the best/easiest/a-workable way to get faster then 1GbE from one of my workstations to my ESX/all-in-one/SAN setup. Right now everything is running on 10Gb/s SDR infiniband and working well. I even have a 10Gb/s SDR infiniband switch making life easy. The problem is...
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    What size braided sleeving for SAS 8087-4xSATA cables?

    Does anyone know what size sleeving I'd need to get it over the SAS 8087 "head" and onto the cable? I have one cable thats not sleeved in one machine and 2 in another and they are a crazy mess. The sleeved cables are much nicer so I figured I'd go ahead and sleeve them myself (did it all the...
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    RAID6: what is a good ratio for usable space to space used for parity?

    You might take a look through my posts over the past year or so. I help my wife run her wedding photography business of 9 years. I manage all her data. I *fully* understand initual photography expenses (just as an example she personally carries two camera on her person at weddings. One D3...
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    are enterprise drives really worth it for reliability?

    I think the problem here is people are looking for a hard line to stand on one side of. IE, "use SAS drives or your taking a big risk" or "Use SATA or your wasting money" and then we are all arguing on both sides of a unarguable open ended statement. What you really need to do is define your...
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    Interesting cheap JBODs available

    Does anyone have any wattage information on these SE3016 units? I'm trying to keep from adding to much 24/7 consumption to my home rack. Right now my plan is to upgrade using a 4u case (the norco one with the 12 front drive bay adapters). I could use a PICO psu if I did it that way and...
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    Take a look and help me verify my open indiana ZFS is ready for "production"?

    I just finished setting up my open indiana VM inside ESXi 4.1U3 (i'll explain that) and wanted some of the ZFS guys to look at the zfs output (i'll post whatever) and make sure that I'm not missing anything obvious or doing anything stupid before I go moving data to it and making it "live"...
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    Clear old windows partitions off disks installed in ZFS?

    thanks so much! worked perfect!
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    Clear old windows partitions off disks installed in ZFS?

    I want to get rid of the little mini partitions floating around here before I build the pool and I'm still pretty newbish with ZFS: here is what I'm seeing: Disks or partitions: available: id part partcap identify stat state pool vdev error vendor product sn...
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    RAID SAN/NAS setup help. ZFS or HW? rdy to give up.

    Sooo.. You want me to spend 960$ a year, per year (in other words, it will grow, by 800-900$ per year) to archive stable (unchanging) files I can quad archive (4x copies, 3x locations) myself for a fraction of that? Lets look at it this way: For 4x copies I'm spending no more then 300$ a TB...
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    Brocade CNA 1020 10GbE SFP compatibility?

    Does anyone know if these play nice with non-brocade SFP+ modules or do I need to stick with brocade specifically (or another compatible brand or two). Being able to use a generic would be handy. Also, does it play nice with the standard SFP+ "hard" cable (the cables with SFP+ modules...
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    mix of 4K drives in ZFS mirrored pool ok?

    Thanks guys! Aesma: so you'd suggest Z2? Any idea what kind of performance I'd get? I'm getting 450 write 650 read on 8 300GB 10,000RPM Raptor 2.5" in a stripped mirror set. I have it on a SAS3081E-R right now and am not sure if i should put those 2TB drives on the M1015 card or if the 8...
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