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    Post Your Connection Speed

    Until yesterday: Switched to Telekom Hybrid (Combination of ADSL2+ & LTE) today: There's more possible - up to 100 down & 40 up, but seems like I need some external antennas.
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    Free vmware ESXi questions

    You can manage it under Linux, if you've installed VMware Workstation 10 for Linux. This works very well. The other option (cheaper than buying a VMware Workstation License) is to setup a small Windows VM on the ESXi and use RDP to access it. You can then install the vSphere client in that VM...
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    Your home ESX server lab hardware specs?

    My (meanwhile old hardware) ESXi 5.5: - Mobo: SuperMicro X9SCM-F - CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 (v1) - 24GB ECC RAM (2x4 + 2x8GB) - HP p400/512MB RAID Controller with 4x 1TB Hitachi 7200rpm HDs in RAID10 for the Datastore - 80GB Intel SSD for Caching - Dual Port Intel PT NIC for IPFire VM VMs...
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    Trying to build my own multi hard drive enclosure

    A little off-topic (just a bit), but this reminded me so much... Check those 2 videos about this guy building a big harddisk enclosure on it's own :) Video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BatakM9iAik Video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPjcXkKxkIA
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    64TB HomeServer - Windows or Linux Areca 1880 16x4TB Drives

    I remember having an Areca 8-Port SAS Controller with 8x WD Green 1TB drives - a very bad combination. It kicked the drives every 2nd day. It was nightmare :) Silhouette is right: Consumer drives and RAID controllers are not a very idea.
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    64TB HomeServer - Windows or Linux Areca 1880 16x4TB Drives

    I wonder why you want to use a hardware RAID controller for this. A simply HBA would've been cheaper and then use mdadm for RAID or even ZFS on Linux, which works very stable and great meanwhile. However: If you run a fileserver, you should *ALWAYS* use ECC memory (on the board, not only on...
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    The [H]ard Forum Storage Showoff Thread - Post your 10TB+ systems

    @morgande Is it ECC memory? ZFS should have ECC.
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    HP p400 + ESXi 5.1 in non-HP server

    Hi, I thought I should share a way to use the HP p400 RAID controller on a non-HP server/board with ESXi. As it seems, there's no driver for the p400 on ESXi 5.1, also, there are no drivers to install for 5.1 afterwards. I've seen the storage, but on every try to format it, I received a...
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    ZFS question - MD1000 with 14 drives

    I highly recommend reading: http://nex7.blogspot.de/2013/03/readme1st.html :)
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    what software do you use to perform backups

    For my father in law, I've created a small robocopy script he can just launch by right-clicking and "run as administrator" once he has attached his 2.5" external disk. On my servers, I backup using rsync in a shell script (Linux).
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    Intel RAID 1 read performance

    Learned a lot posting and reading this thread. :)
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    Simple Virtualization

    I don't see a problem in running a regular desktop with Windows, Mac or Linux and put VMware Workstation/Fusion or VirtualBox on top of it? Just be sure you have enough RAM. At least the VMware products are able to run spanning across multiple screens. I think there's also a nice solution by...
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    1000pt dual port nic hardware question.

    There are some mainboards that have "GPU"-only PCIe x16 slots and can't drive any RAID card or even network cards. But I must say that I also think it's DOA as I've never had such on any board from Asus, Gigabyte, Asrock or SuperMicro.
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    Intel RAID 1 read performance

    RAID1 is ~the speed of a single disk, as ALL the data is written on both HDs at the same time. RAID1 is "mirror". RAID0 is much faster, as the data is striped above the (for example) 2 HDs, means 50% are written to one disk while the other 50% are written to the other one. RAID0 is "striped".
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    Network pics thread

    Well, the original fan was damaged and super loud. Even the new fan is ~27dB and not really quiet - but as I will put the switch into the rack which is in the last room in the basement, it's fine ;) As long as it does it's work.
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