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    Optane 905P - Still Worth it as an OS Drive?

    A little late to this convo... So, I have an 970 Pro in my laptop, and it's been nothing special other than a few noticeable coding things that are pretty fast from time to time compared to my old SSD desktop. Honestly, I'm kind of pissed at it since it corrupted my last linux install. I had...
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    Help me test systems with a stack of Enterprise SSDs

    Thanks for the follow up! Turns out all SSDs are at the max write (wear level). The SMART on these does not report wear level, but only number of sectors moved (STEC) and failed sector moves (max wear level / reserved blocks all used up). They have 200GB of reserve for write endurance. So if...
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    Help me test systems with a stack of Enterprise SSDs

    I am a recent father of 16x 800GB SAS2 6Gb/s SSDs drives and would like to use them to test various server configurations I could put together. Basic specs are 525MB/s read, 450MB/s write each. I have a (short) opportunity to use a few chassis from my homelab/homelan I am rebuilding, as well as...
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    Should I go all Mesh on Legacy Routers?

    That's what I thought! :) True about the channels. Though I do play with WifiAnalyzer a lot and pick channels that have no interference. Yeah, I read about that last night after this post as well. I wonder if I could achieve the same thing with a script on the APs - monitoring client...
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    Should I go all Mesh on Legacy Routers?

    Thanks for the suggestion. Could I not achieve a similar setup with legacy routers and custom firmware, but over hardwired LAN APs? Are there resources that explains the protocols of such legacy firmware? I do fail to see how spending more money and dangling Access Point sucking up bandwidth...
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    Should I go all Mesh on Legacy Routers?

    Ok, I have a pretty elaborate network that works quite well. But with all the hype about "Mesh Networks", and frankly I don't know much about mesh networking, I wonder if I am using my system to its fullest potential. Setup Internet Gateway: Netgear R7000 (Ch 2) Access Points: 3x...
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    ESXi 6 RAID1 support for OS/Datastore?

    So have all that horsepower in my server; but yet, boot from a tiny usb stick just seems... wrong.
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    ESXi 6 RAID1 support for OS/Datastore?

    That sounds decent, except I do plan on some pass-through as well (extending to GPUs and HBAs in the future). That sounds a bit complicated. But interesting. Thank you. That stops me before wasting my beauty sleep on it in the middle of the night. :) Those look pretty cheap, and I more...
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    ESXi 6 RAID1 support for OS/Datastore?

    Does ESXi 6.x has native support for RAID1 and Datastore (rest of the drive) if the proper chipset drivers were to be loaded? Specifically, the Intel RSTe (for server boards) type "software raid" kind of RAID. TL;DR So the story goes that ESXi does not support anything but hardware raid HBAs...
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    Rackable System 3U 16 drives chassis SAS2 upgrade

    You know, I forgot that simplest of things... "Remove the drives [and PSU]." Doh. Yeah, I think that would keep it maneuverable. Thanks!
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    Rackable System 3U 16 drives chassis SAS2 upgrade

    Thanks! Humm. I've been trolling eBay for about a month now, looking for SC846 chassis' that have SAS2 (SC846E16 and SC846E26 to be exact). None of the barebones can be found for cheaper than $500. Now, the SAS1 3Gbps versions (SC846E1, no "6" on the end which means they are not 6Gbps but...
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    Rackable System 3U 16 drives chassis SAS2 upgrade

    This is a great thread... I am one of those guys who spends weeks/months researching and reading - but frankly, I am at the end of that time for this project (switching to a rackable chassis for my 16 HDDs). @cantalup: I myself have figured out that by buying the Supermicro SAS2 backplanes...
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    NVIDIA Kepler GeForce GTX 680 Video Card Review @ [H]ardOCP

    I remember the days of 120Hz CRT monitors and the vast, seriously eye-numbness solving solution of increasing the ever default of 60Hz flicker to 120Hz. It was a serious improvement in No Flickering. The same applied to my games over a decade ago. I demanded nothing less than 120Hz on my...
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    NVIDIA Kepler GeForce GTX 680 Video Card Review @ [H]ardOCP

    Sounds like we have 3 votes! Time to ramp up the tests again [H]ard! ;)
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    NVIDIA Kepler GeForce GTX 680 Video Card Review @ [H]ardOCP

    Could [H]ardforum post some graphs of the vram usage at 5760x1080? I constantly exceeded 2.7 GB (2.8GB at times) on my 3-way GTX 580s w/3GB of ram, which I just sold off in anticipation of the GTX 680s. But that 2 GB ram limit really has me concerned, especially after seeing what happened...
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