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That's not right, Windows over HDMI will send up to 7.1 positional channels correctly. For SPDIF (optical and coax) you only get 2 though if you don't have a sound card that can creat a DTS/Dolby stream in realtime.

Something like this should be appropriate: http://www.storagereview.com/icy_dock_35_sata_hdd_backplane_review_mb153spb //DJ

you can quite easily do this with dd on windows or linux. Boot a computer with your raid array as a secondary drive (don't be booted off of the array you want to migrate while doing this). then just run dd, with your raid array as source, and your single disk as target. It's simple and...

Your best bet for iops & perf is raid10. You do give up some space, but it's cheap, and redundant and reliable.

Hi, Looking at your stats, I am not sure what kind of performance you are expecting. You are not using SSDs. A normal drive can produce around ~100 4k iops, you are getting about 1500kb/sec /4 = ~375 iops on a RAID5, that's pretty damn decent performance. Also, don't forget due to raid5s...

even a single disk should saturate a normal network 1g connection in this day and age, it's not really a helpful test of performance. Any brand nic on the PCIe bus should also peg to the maximum, we have RealTek (up to 6 years old), Intel, random brands, they all peg at the max (~up to...

Don't confuse bonding with dualports. The single expander dual ports are just for bonding (doubling of bandwith), for dualport drives, you need two expander chips per backplane, like the E26 versions of any SuperMicro Chassis have (while E16 ones have a single, just like this one).

Glad to help! //D

If you go dual expanders, you would have to use dual ported SAS drives, and two controllers in a multipath configuration, it's a more complex solution. It's rarely the expander that dies, but sure, depending on the level of the required up time, it can be worth it.

If you have no special reason, go for SC846E16 instead. If you don't know why, you don't need dual expanders.

Honestly, I wouldn't fiddle, I would get this, it fits 45 drives: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811152142 They also have smaller and cheaper variants, if you haven't already built the computer, they also have a 36 drive version that can fit motherboard and such, and...

The answer is that you are looking at your ZFS Pool, and not the ZFS folder. The ZFS Pool lists data size as seen on drives (so includes redundancy), while the ZFS folder lists the size, as seen on the filesystem. For example, on my "pool" fs6 I got Alloc 34.1T, but on my "folder" I got...

Why would you run a E26 over a E16 chassis ? It is correct you need a interposer card if you are running multipath on the E26.

I think they are writing 6GB Sata 3 for exactly the reasons you are creating this thread. People don't understand (their general costumers) that there is no physical difference between Sata1 and Sata3, only signaling differences. So something that will work as SATA1 will work as SATA3 in the...

I can't find the 846E16-R1200B anywhere in Canada, but the 846E26-R1200B is the one that's available, so that's why I went with that. I don't plan to use the redundancy though. But if I connect both, do I get double the bandwidth? I think you are confused, what SM means with E16 or E26 is dual...