Recent content by vladthebad

Right. On the other hand, virus code for windows is passed around quite a bit and there are a lot of malware authors targetting windows, many of them may not ha e a mac to code on or test with, that will also slow down many of them. I do agree that when many virus and malware authors DO target...

Still no in the wild osx viruses as far as I know. Trojans, yes there are a couple, but no spreading self propagating viruses. The other thing about the pwn2own security contest, is they have all year to find their exploit, so if it's hacked "in a couple hours" that tells you nothing. So you...

Just swap the ioplate and use the uio cards. PCIe x8 with the components on the "wrong" side. Aoc-usas-l8i. It's an lsi 1068e based card with 2 minisas ports, let's you run 8 drives without expanders or 144 drives I think with expanders. The card is about $130. The newer aoc-usas2-l8i is based...

Right. What controller? Sure you may jut be doing software raid, but what controller? What chip is on the other end of the cable? Is it some crap nforce controller? Or possibly jmicron based crap? Or silicon image crap? Is there a sata port multiplier being used.... If so is it a FIS...

Pjkenned, the lynnfield stuff doesn't support x4 registered ram. It's not a supermicro limitation, it's a socket/memory controller limitation. it's also one of the reasons that the dual socket 1366 does support x4 was because due to dram die density they knew x4 stuff would be cheaper...

What storage controller are all the drives dying on? Also how are you sharing out the filesystem and to what clients? SMB to multiple windows boxes? I don't care if they are packard bell rebrands of some made in china maxtor knockoff drive..... Losing that many drives that fast implies other...

anything above 5 spindles and I'd do RAID6. Or raidz2. Costs of a hardware raid controller would likely be more expensive than just switching to raid10 even with the extra drives that requires. Really for 95% of solutions I think software raid is the way to go. Reallistically, even many of the...

Linux (or bsd) software raid and an lsi 1068e or other well supported sas chip for your controller. Let's you use expanders if needed. Also gives you 8 ports, can be moved to another machine if needed, etc. Hardware RAID5 will cost quite a bit more to build and won't really offer much in the...

Yeah. I figured the windows drivers might be a bit better, but it looks like you just had plenty of processing power to brute force some more performance, heh. With an intel nic on old p4 celeron I could break 100MB/s too without much trouble, but couldn't get much over 50MB/s with realtec. The...

I was under the impression the two new sockets were like 1356, and 1152 or something.... Look at it this way though... the 1156 lynnfield chips are already partially disabled. They have QPI and a third DDR3 channel on them... just not available through the socket. Move to "Jasper Forest"...

Lizardking009, I'm not going to blame their deaths entirely on newegg shipping, although it MAY have been a factor. At least one of the originals suffered from firmware bug. Frankly, it doesn't really matter what killed the originals though, since with advanced RMA, you get back someone elses...

brandinb, Out of curiosity, what realtek, and were you using jumbo frames? Using jumbo frames, 100MB/s is pretty easily doable. Cheap Realtek's also work decently if you have a boatload of processing power to throw at it.... I don't use windows much at all anymore (Never did that much to...

Go into bios and turn on option rom support for the slot that the card is in? Most of the supermicro boards I've played with let you configure option rom support on a slot by slot basis. If it already enabled, then you may be hitting the option rom limit... Start disabling option rom support...

If its certified repaired, and has the other label with the blue/green border, then I'd consider it to be a fine drive. If the drive failed for mechanical reasons, they've likely replaced most/all of the mechanicals and possibly the platters (Thus, used drive board, used aluminum case, possibly...

The problem with that, is that most machines and home networking isn't going to be able to really pull much more than 50-60MB/s anyways. Add in the fact that you likely won't be doing jumbo frames, and thus have to split every 4k block into several frames, add network latency, and its highly...