This could be an explanation. Although this would be contradictory to the way most people expect how the POH value works. In my experience HDDs and most SSDs just count the hours the drive is powered on.
Unfortunately I don't have regular access to these drives anymore. I'd be curious to do...
The BX100 I built into a friends system works fine so far. The MX100 I built into another friends PC, too. Nothing bad to say about performance or compatibility issues.
But there is one thing that bothers me. Both of them are not honest with their Power-On-Hours smart values. They just do not...
Thanks for this extensive testing orgy :D
I didn't expect to see such a big boost.
But as impressive these numbers are, I wonder if the array performs equally well in your intended production workload. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to diminish your effort in tweaking the settings, but...
Firmware or driver update release notes may give additional information about the issues solved or about the remaining ones.
I don't know what kind of issues there were, but according to your benchmark numbers this array doesn't seem to have performance issues. Maybe the LSI/Samsung...
Maybe this article is relevant to your problem. Seems as if the ISO with the Driver Rollup is giving some more people a bad time and not for the first time.
There should be no need to select certain updates. The tool is a collection of scripts that query the Windows Update servers for updates lists, dynamically create a download repository consisting of updates that have a static URL and updates with ever changing URLs and dumps them in a folder...
Thanks for clarifying the spanning mode. I re-read your first post and realized assuming span would be mirror doesn't make any sense because you mentioned the available space is 8TB either way.
Since Windows Vista updates are no longer language based. There is only one single update for all language versions. The only different versions are for 32 and 64 bit systems. AFAIK even the service pack files for client and server versions are identical. So that means WSUS Offline Updater will...
If SPAN is Buffalos term of calling RAID1 or mirroring it is the way to go. When a drive fails there should be no need for recovery tools at all. The data is mirrored on both drives and if one drives dies everything is still on the other one. Obviously there is only 4TB usable space available...
As a passionate hoarder this would have been some nice storage...
but unfortunately "Not available in your region" even if I change my region to the US :mad: