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    The [H]ardForum Perpetual Freebies Thread

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    Sold!, Beelink SER7 Mini PC w/ AMD 7840HS cpu, 1TB NVMe (2 NVMe slots),

    I think it's the green that gives it a unique flair ;)
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    FS: ASUS ROG GT-AXE16000 WiFi 6E 10GbE Router & Hitron CODA56 Cable Modem (Current BEST)

    PM: dibs on the air and water coolers!
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    FS: Homelab hardware + some itx stuff

    From the block diagram, it looks like other than the first two PCIe x8 slots, everything else (dual 10GBe, PCIE 3.0 x4 NVME, two PCIe 3.0 x4 slots, USB 3.1/3.2 controllers) comes off the PCH/Southbridge, which is limited by a 4Gbytes/sec DMI 3.0 link to the CPU. I assume you haven't seen any...
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    WTB USB Flash Drive

    If you want bog-standard USB-A for casual file storage with decent sequential write speeds, I like the Microcenter 128GB 5-pack for $38: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BKZ3LQTL
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    WTB: DDR4 ECC RDIMMs

    Awesome! Anyone else have a set of four more 16GBs?
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    WTB: DDR4 ECC RDIMMs

    Will take it! Do you have any more 16GBs?
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    WTB: DDR4 ECC RDIMMs

    Still looking for a set of four 16GB DDR4 ECC RDIMMs, speed DDR4-2400 or better.
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    ARECA Owner's Thread (SAS/SATA RAID Cards)

    Any experiences with the Areca warranty for products purchased used--but still clearly within warranty (based on the FW/BIOS sticker date)?
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    ARECA Owner's Thread (SAS/SATA RAID Cards)

    Sorry to hear about that. We were talking about the 1680 series -- it would seem natural for a different model with a different expander chip to have a different flashing procedure. Doesn't the 1880 have it's own Expander CLI manual explaining the steps? It might have been better to ask here...
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    ARECA Owner's Thread (SAS/SATA RAID Cards)

    Hi Blue Fox, I've been away from the storage world for a few years and looking to upgrade. Could you give a few examples of the higher-performing Broadcom cards these days (or preferably, their OEM flashable versions)? I assume that the better performance comes from the ARM processors and/or...
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    ARECA Owner's Thread (SAS/SATA RAID Cards)

    I have an ARC-1883i with three RAID-5 arrays (4 drives per array, 4-8 TB each, via Intel RE2SV240 expander) AND an ARC-1880i (on another machine) with one directly connected 4-drive RAID-5 array (4TB). All arrays are 64-bit LBA with a 128k stripe size. I need to do some maintenance and have a...
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    ARECA Owner's Thread (SAS/SATA RAID Cards)

    Win 10 desktop versions don't have native iSCSI target creation support, but you can use free third-party software to do so, e.g. https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-virtual-san-free
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    ARECA Owner's Thread (SAS/SATA RAID Cards)

    It's been a long time since I dealt with an -IX version, but IIRC the "awkward" portion is simply setting up the proper serial (COM port) connection to the expander command-line interface. After that, as with most command-line flashing procedures, it's not complicated but you do have to proceed...
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    Recomendation for a 250GB - 300GB drive for always on PC

    Run chkdsk /r /f X: (whatever drive) and it will find and repair any bad clusters.
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