Recent content by Dalfo002

I grabbed it from eBay, there are a few sellers with roamers listed. The one i bought (http://www.ebay.com/itm/360684080764) had cables included but they were intended to interface with a normal motherboard so i'll have to build myself some custom cables... when i can figure out the RS232 pinout...

SO, i finally ripped mine open and stuck a RoamerIP LOM board in there. It's not quite plug and play but i got it working. The Roamer allows remote power on/off, restart and serial terminal access, but best of all it will handle automatic power-on after power failure with an adjustable delay...

Apologies to all on practicing my necromancy on this thread, but i think the information may be useful to someone who may stumble upon this page. The connector on this board will FIT a motherboard power connector (i believe it is keyed the same as a 12v auxiliary connector) but the pinout is...

I'm with Jorona, it's one of those "I know better, but just haven't gotten around to it" type of things.

The SAS 5/E should be an LSI 1068 (PCIx) with a PCIx to PCIe bridge chip on board. These come with an outdated IR firmware from dell and i don't recall if the IT firmware was ever made available from them; so passing disks through can be cumbersome. My initial attempts to cross-flash an LSI...

Try breaking the array and test throughput to individual drives, see what you get that way to start with.

I'm guilty of acquiring much of my hardware from eBay. Lurk long enough and you find some good deals. The SAS6 is often (as in almost always) falsely listed as PERC6, the part number is ucs-61 better to search that way. There are many 1068e cards, I just happen to have the Dell ones.

Even without AHCI you should see a marked improvement by switching to an SSD. Just in my case I'm using a very old unit with suspicious garbage collection capabilities. All the old tweaks and tricks for SSDs which are no longer as important, such as manual over provisioning, were devised...

If you don't intend to go beyond 2TB per disk in the near term, 1068e based cards are DIRT cheap right now. You likely could get hold of a Dell SAS6 for less than 30 dollars, maybe less than 20 if you scrounge about sufficiently. That should cover you on the hardware front for a while.

As stated before, any SAS2008 or newer chipset based card. there are many: http://www.servethehome.com/lsi-sas-2008-raid-controller-hba-information/ When last i looked the PERC H310 was cheapest option.

My current workstation uses an NF4 variant. I didn't have any difficulties installing or booting from an old SATAII samsung SSD (a Dell OEM, nightmare to find firmware) BUT the NF4 does not support AHCI so no TRIM or any of those other fancy features. I did exactly as you were thinking and...

1068e based HBA's will only address up to 2TB per drive, you would need an SAS2008 or newer based card in order to take advantage of larger disks. Also keep in mind that some users have reported issues with use of SATA disks through an SAS expander. I have not run into this issue myself, but...

I want to say that was the design idea behind GlusterFS, but i haven't looked at the project in a long time as it didn't meet the requirements of the system we were implementing at work at the time. You might try taking a look at gluster.org

The best way to look at ReFS is as a rework or extension to NTFS. The Simple/Mirror/Parity configuration all happens at the Storage Spaces Level as GMcDonnell has stated. Define a "Pool" of disks, HotSpares (if used) are configured at this level if i recall correctly. Provision a Virtual Disk...

EDIT: DERP, sorry, necro'd the thread accidentally, please delete if you can