• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

Recent content by Razlak

  1. R

    Intel SSD DC P3700 800GB

    Anyone know the status of NVMe support in Illumos? All I can find is this: https://www.illumos.org/issues/4053 Would love to use some of these for L2ARC.
  2. R

    Seagate 3TB Barracudas - Decent or Avoid?

    I've got 10 of these at home and another 30 or so going at work here, no failures so far. Some have fairly high remapped sector counts, but they're holding steady and not growing.
  3. R

    Datacenter SAN direction

    Our DC is still all FC for anything important. FCoE is used behind the scenes in our Cisco UCS servers, but gets converted to FC for the array connections which seems to be a popular setup. I can see a use for iSCSI in smaller deployments though, especially if you already have networking...
  4. R

    Windows failed to format; drive now corrupted?

    Try opening a command prompt and using the diskpart tool, list and select the disk, and run a "clean" command on the drive to zero out the partition table. Just make sure you pick the right disk and don't wipe out your boot drive.
  5. R

    Any other place to buy Dell OEM SAS drives?

    We usually pick up refurbs from serversupply.com, just search for the original dell part no. Most of the time they're about half the price of dell and they've worked perfectly.
  6. R

    OpenZFS NAS (BSD, Illumos, Linux, OSX, Solaris, Windows + Storage Spaces) with napp-it web-gui

    Has anyone had luck getting the new Intel i210 NICs that Supermicro is putting on their Haswell boards working in OmniOS or OpenIndiana? I haven't been able to find any drivers or tweaks to get the existing igb drivers to work.
  7. R

    Got a new SSD, cloning?

    Clonezilla is what you are looking for. Free/OpenSource, and does preserve alignment, or can even align as your cloning if your source was not. I believe it can do the partition resize at the same time, but I usually have Win7 do that afterwards. It also looks into the file system and will...
  8. R

    what router brand do you use?

    pfSense virtualized on an ESXi all-in-one
  9. R

    Samsung HD204UI Question

    I've got 10 in a ZFS box that has been working great. I run weekly checks and I believe only seen one recovered soft error in the year i've been running them. I would agree that they wouldn't be a good choice for a hardware raid setup due to the lack of TLER though.
  10. R

    Next generation of SSDs to have a shorter lifespan?

    Chkdsk will only tell you if the filesystem metadata is corrupted, not the data itself. NTFS doesn't do any checksumming, but ReFS in Win8 will.
  11. R

    So i bougth some QLE246x FC cards. Looking for ideas how to utilize them.

    Yes, FC cards can be directly connected without a switch.
  12. R

    Choosing components for an All-In-One ZFS/ESXi system

    As far as i know, ESXi cannot see the "soft RAID" that the C204 chipset does. You'll need a real hardware RAID if you want to do mirroring there. Another SAS6/iR running in RAID mode should do that though.
  13. R

    what is the best option for lossless audio

    The 460 is the fastest Nvidia card that supports bitstreaming the lossless codecs.
  14. R

    Is my SSD properly aligned?

    You only have to worry about aligning the first partition, all the others are based off the first.
  15. R

    Why doesn't my SSD system boot faster?

    Don't forget that a lot of the Windows boot time is driver detection. If you watch the HD activity LED of your system while booting, you'll notice that it spends a good portion of the time not on, so even the fastest disk system wouldn't speed it up. Linux is the same way, about half the boot...
See more
Back
Top