Recent content by guc32

Ultrastar are Near Line Enterprise drives. They have 5yr warranty when new. Believe they are made to run in close proximity of other drives, as in raid enclosures.

Thanks for info about Ultrastars. I didnt know about them and now I see they are enterprise drives. :D

Yes it worked right away after installing the card. Im hoping future drivers wont stop it from working. Now awaiting the Chelsio card to come in to have 10gbe to Freenas. 10gbe just to my desktop is not fancy or useful enough.

Ah didnt know that since Im using Windows 10. Good thing for me. I would have pulled my hair out if this card didnt work too on my Windows machine. :D

So Ive asked this on Freenas forums already. Connectx-2 isnt supported at all. Mellanox said they only support the 3 and 4 and left out the 2. I bought 2 of the Connectx-2 and yes indeed they dont work in Freenas. So only place I could use it is in Windows. Chelsio S320 and T420-CR was...

Great pick up.

I read somewhere before that the Mellanox Connectx-2 10gb card didnt work on Freenas because of the FreeBSD version. Since the release of Freenas 9.10 that has FreeBSD 10.3, can anyone confirm the Mellanox works now?

Sorry to hear that. Ive had same experience with Seagates too.

Ahh ok. Thanks for the reply. So best to get more 10gb connection is buy a switch with more 10gb ports.

I see that these switches can stack through HDMI. In doing so, will the 10g pass through the HDMI cable? So #1 computer hooking up to #1 switch with 10g connection talk to #2 computer on #2 switch with also a 10g connection? What I dont know is stacking same as plugging a RJ45 connecting both...

Ive been using Freenas with ZFS RaidZ2 with 6x2tb for some time. Now with it filling up and disk getting cheaper, Im finding myself buying 4tb disk and replacing the current 2tb 1 by 1. Those 2 tb will become another RaidZ2 in another computer for another backup or another storage.

Thats some fine gear you have there!!!

Thats blazing speed there OP. With my 175/10 cable, I dont know how often I use up the down. 2 kids that game and upload vids takes up a lot of the up.

Back on Diablo 3. Always pulls me back for a bit.

Yeah I thought so too, but thats a great idea the put your AP in front.