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This is the biggest appeal of the Supermicro solution. They seem to be one of the only companies that offer both a server chasis, and a 5.25 "mobile rack" that use compatible drive trays.

Indeed, Supermicro confirms they call "gross weight" the shipping weight - basically the weight of the box going out the door. The challenge is, this company wants to put the server in a shock-mounted shipping case (the ones with isolated 19" racks inside), and most of those cases weigh 50+lbs...

Thanks for the replies everyone! I'm sorry I neglected this thread for so long. I confirmed with Supermicro that the power supply in the 418E16-R1K62B2 has 50A on the 5V rail, which should be sufficient for the drives that will be populated. I also confirmed that despite different part...

Yes, I definitely confused those. I was looking for a quick answer to my concern - in retrospect 4A is very tiny :) Sorry. I suppose you have to email them for the specs on the the power supply (or rather the distribution board, since that seems to be what influences 5V availability)?

A friend recently asked me for advice on a problem he was facing at work. The company he works for has systems that record data to large numbers of SSDs, and then the SSDs get physically transferred to a server-type box to offload the data onto some other storage medium (eg, a large disk...

I am running a uhub-based DC++ hub on my local network. I connect to it with a client on the same network. As a result, the hub publishes my LAN IP, and not my WAN IP. As a result, WAN clients can't connect, despite port forwards being properly configured. I have configured my WAN IP in...

What happens is, in lieu of an actually smart tool that understands NTFS and other filesystems, "dd" just blindly copies the drive, byte-for-byte (hence its name :)). The problem is then that backup size = disk size, not data size which is likely much smaller. An easy way around this is to...

Hello, I have a laptop system running Windows 8 and I need to make an image of it. Rather than mess with whatever Windows 8 provides (unless its really good?), I would like to just make a simple image of the drive using linux's "dd" run from a usb boot. The problem is, that would make the...

Hello, I am wanting to use an SSD on a system without trim support. Can I get a similar effect to trim by significantly under-partitioning the drive? Say, for a 64GB drive, only partition 40GB? I would think this would ensure the drive's controller always has plenty of space for garbage...

Installed the new intel card, and am seeing no difference in CPU usage. 1627MHz to download 25Mbit of traffic on a VM with 2 vCPUs.

Ran a rather unscientific test regarding vmxnet2 vs e1000 ethernet adapters on the 2.1 beta. Consistent with other such tests from around the internet, I didn't see a substantial difference. I had my fileserver serving a file from its disks, a pfsense VM routing them, and then an Ubuntu VM...

Ironically enough, one of my motivations for virtualizing the router was to save power. The bare metal box uses 26W - the EXI box the virtualized is on uses 47W idle while running, which is a little more than the fileserver it essentially eclipsed. Further ironically, running a single core at...

fastforwarding does not appear to have an impact on host cpu usage for me. 3MByte/s download still consumes 50% of the host cpu according to esxtop. Thanks for the suggestion :)

I purchased a EXPI9402PT from ebay. Hopefully that will help - and if not I can experiment with some aggregation to my desktop. I tried giving pfsense another virtual core. It's difficult to say if there has been any benefit. With the cachefly file, I see 50% usage for the pfsense VM...

Looks like I'm off to ebay to find some new NICs. Those who say it works well, could I ask: 1) How much traffic are you moving? How much host CPU is used while moving this? 2) "Idle" host CPU usage - routing 150KByte of traffic, I am running at 167MHz 3) I am still suspicious that my...