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    Opinions Wanted: NAS Server Upgrade

    Hi Gea thanks for your reply. I believe I need the X99 chipset to overclock. Am I correct that you can not manually adjust the CPU multiplier higher than reported by the CPU on the C612 chipsets? I'm also interested in enabling all of the CPUs to max-turbo simultaneously, which the Asus...
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    Opinions Wanted: NAS Server Upgrade

    Hello friends, I'd like to get your ideas/expertise on an upgrade for my NAS/router/firewall/virtualization server -- It's a bit exotic but I thought it might be an interesting scenario for some. Current setup: Motherboard: Jetway NF9E-Q77 http://www.jetwaycomputer.com/NF9E.html CPU: Quad core...
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    Living on Borrowed Time, Need Help with Storage Options

    Nothing to add from a build recomendation perspective. Just an observation, hard drives that sit on the shelf for long periods > 1 year sometimes do not like to spin up again. I've had a few that were perfectly fine when I powered them down never run again... If you plan on continuing your...
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    Need more SATA 6 ports

    Same number on the z170, might be a good direction if you want to oc. Only has 6 SATA3 ports native though. The next big bump of lanes come when you get into the -E -EX or E5 series of processors, but only haswell based v3 are available so far. D-1500 v4 Broadwells are showing up but are a...
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    Need more SATA 6 ports

    Right but the C236 PCH has 20 v3 lanes instead of the anemic 8 v2 lanes in prior chipset series. This may be important for his use case since he mentioned running numerous SSDs and not being thrilled about upgrading (future proof). LSI were ruled out earlier in this thread for shoddy...
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    Need more SATA 6 ports

    Not sure what your exact use case is but you may want to look at the asrock rack workstation motherboards and E3v5 series xeons. They have lots of pcie lanes/ports and data ports and support ddr4.
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    Need more SATA 6 ports

    I'll be in the same boat soon enough. Probably going to go with a motherboard that has LOM and at least 10 SATA3 (Intel chipset) ports.
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    Need more SATA 6 ports

    For the LSI to pass TRIM/UNMAP commands to the SSD, the SSD must support DRAT. hdparm -I should show: * Deterministic read ZEROs after TRIM That being said, the support is still total crap. Apparently in LSI firmware 14 and 15 the discard granularity is misread and requires an...
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    Need more SATA 6 ports

    Are you planning to connect SSDs and require TRIM? If so carefully check support with LSI first -- some of my Samsungs wont TRIM when connected to LSI controllers but work fine on the the Intel PCHs.
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    DBAN recognize M1015 controller?

    Using the wipe command on a Linux live environment works well too if you are having dban driver issues.
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    GlusterFS / ZFS?

    Be sure to incorporate snapshots into your plan to avoid data issues in your primary cascading to your backup.
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    Infiniband Help

    Even having them connected directly will impact the other adapters in your computers. The routing table is shared across them and any attempts to connect to those IP ranges will be sent over the point to point adapter rather than the nic with the internet connection.
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    Infiniband Help

    Just a note on the IP addressing. Please use RFC1918 private space instead of 111 or 11 address spaces. Failure to do so will render valid internet hosts on those networks unreachable from your machines due to routing.
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    Platter HDD is SLOW, but bursts fast

    Last step to try is plugging the data cable connected to the ssd into the hard drive. Don't change the port or cable. If the DMA errors continue time to RMA the drive.
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    Platter HDD is SLOW, but bursts fast

    Also make sure that there isnt anything else hitting the drives; in performance monitor you can view the overall reads and writes being directed toward the drives. Could be antivirus trying to scan and causing contention.
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