Recent content by ponky

4 pin and set to "Optimal" from IPMI.

I assume you mean CSE-PTJBOD-CB3? Yes I do.

My home rack is already pretty quiet. Most of the noice come from SC846 and its fans. I already have SQ PSUs, but I'd like to replace the three fans behind the backplane. I'm using the chassis as JBOD, so I can safely remove the back fans I think. I noticed that the back fans can be replaced...

Home lab unracked. I'll post specs later.

Always ZoL (well, not practically a Linux FS). If running VMs there's usually ZFS underneath, then I'll just run XFS in the VMs.

12 total? Which kind of zpool/array you'll run them in?

Thanks for the answers. I'll need the drive to saturate 10Gbps link so I can move stuff between my server and desktop fast. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-750-series-400gb-versus-samsung-sm951-512gb,4143.html According this, 400GB seems to perform better than 1,2TB, at least in some...

Just found out that there is a 800GB model of this SSD. Has anyone got their hands on one yet? I would like to see some real world test results between each model. Is 1200GB model really worth it, or should I go for 400GB / 800GB if the capacity meets my needs?

Not sure which is the right subforum to post this, so let's start here: I wanted to install Debian on ZFS root with UEFI boot. 1) I downloaded Ubuntu 15.04 desktop image because it has UEFI support (debian live does not) 2) Mounted the .iso via Supermicro IPMI 3) BIOS shows two devices...

Depends what you count as "reasonable". Fun hobbies are never cheap :). I've been running a "10G network" at home for about a year now: Juniper EX3300-24T - $1000, new Intel X520-DA2 nics in each server/desktop - $100 each, new from China MM OM3/4 cables - maybe $50 total?, new Optics...

10GBASE-T draws too much power, is too expensive and fiber gives so much more flexibility.

I think this setup is still doable even with 32GB ram. Also that's the max for this board/cpu. Upgrading to 2011 now would be overkill. Xeon D is optimal storage platform, but I am not going to touch any 10GBASE-T stuff, never. I wonder if Intel will release a Skylake Xeon SoC?

I'll just list everything, since other people might wanna know as well. It's currently running on bare metal. Xeon E3-1230v3 32GB ddr3 ECC Supermicro X10SLH-f SC846BA-R920B SAS3-846EL1 backplane M1015 2x 40GB Intel 320 SSD for OmniOS Intel X520 dual port 10G nic 24x various 4TB HDDs, mix or WD...

Backups are there, no worries. Think I'm going for 6 disk per vdev. 8x6/8/10TB drives in a single raidz2 sounds hazardous. Thanks for all the suggestions!

Yes, 3x8 would give me best capacity, and probably good-enough performance (need 1GB/s seq read/write), but is 8disk wide raidz2 vdevs good idea with 6TB, or even 8TB drives? I'm currently using only 4TB drives, but I'd like to make the pool future proof for bigger disks as well.