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We just had an issue today crop up after a few people installed KB3021674 in Windows 8.1. If a user tried to logon to a system that they had never logged onto before it could not create a new profile for them, giving the error "User Profile Service Failed the Logon". At first we thought...

Hmm homebrew GPU compute node or maybe some sort of GPU offload for VDI? Been foaming at the mouth for GPU offload for VDI for awhile. Would love to slice and dice our engineering boxes into VDI clients that can take resources as they need it.

We have a few Brocade 10GbE switches here and we have been using the Approved Optics generics with pretty good results. However we use the MM Fiber SFP+ units, not the copper ones. I dont know if their price is reasonable or not... http://approvedoptics.com/brocade-xbr-twx-0301/

That is a pretty solid build as a large storage platform. I am FAR from an expert, but we have built two ZFS arrays using a similar chassis as you. We found that the expanders are great to keep down on cabling, but that the direct attached backplanes offered better performance IF you are going...

We have yet to test the drives. The 9211-8i is only a touch over a year old so I will be calling LSi to find a way to either test it or RMA it. If I had to guess I would say that the drives will test out to be fine, since I imagine the odds of all of the drives on that controller going bad at...

Here is what happened. I wanted to upgrade the NOS on the Brocade VDX 6720 that servers as our 10GbE fiber "core" switch as well as our iSCSI 10GbE uplinks from the SAN to the ESXi hosts. We basically just wacked the switch in half using VLANs and have 12 ports for each network. The...

Just wondering if anyone out there is using a mirror of the ZeusRAM drives for their ZIL? I understand that this is kind of an odd question, but I haven't found much in the way of anyone using STEC ZeusRAM in a mirror for ZIL except for a few people...

Enermax PSU's have always been my favorite, they have gone in a number of my machines that needed "BIG POWAH"! I have replaced sketchy Thermaltake and even a PC Power and Cooling PSU with Enermax before to solve issues with machines that would lock up or reboot under heavy gaming or encoding...

If there is nothing weird on the label that says "OEM" or "Made for XXX by HGST" then I would give support a call/email and find out exactly why it is not under warranty. I have had to do the same for WD and Seagate multiple times with retail drives when their online tool did not see it as a...

What kind of storage server are you building? What OS are you using? Your drive selection will be based upon what hardware and OS you are going to use, as well as its intended purpose. I am not from the UK but 1500 Sterling for 24 drives sounds like not too bad of a price, assuming that...

I'm in. Love XFX wares...

I have tried the patch panels then 1 ft patch cables into the switch method and have found that the 2 - 24 port patch panels, then neat patch, then switch works a lot better for me if and when I need to flip flop cables (which is rare indeed). I also typically have one or two PoE injectors and...

Yup. I let me assistant at the time do that cabinet and I never looked at it. Shame on me for assuming he would do it right.

While this is FAR from some of my best work it is at least an improvement on what was there before. I tried a new way of laying things out putting the switch at the top, but this caused some sag in my bundle which I am not happy about. To top it all off I found a bunch of shorties in the...

Did you load the latest Intel ProSet drivers? EDIT: NM I am retarded I did not read the post you made right before I made mine. If you have the latest ProSET drivers and it does not work then I am very confused.

See if you can get a used Foundry FGS if you dont mind the power suck and the noise: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Foundry-Networks-FastIron-GS-FGS624P-POE-Gigabit-Switch-Brocade-/220944043919?pt=COMP_EN_Hubs&hash=item33714a8f8f#ht_1820wt_1297 We have about 10 of these where I work and can push...

Cisco emailed us a few months ago saying that they were going to upgrade our C100 appliance since it was EOL. My boss figured we would get the C150 to replace it, but they sent a C170 instead: Outside Hot Swap drives Full frontal Obligatory all internal shot Closeup of...

I am guessing you have not tried the drives from nVidia yet then? http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_winxp_15.26.html Give those a shot as they were listed for the nForce 430/6150 chipset that you linked in your post.

It is a bit old compared to the Vertex 4. It will still be TONS faster than a rust spinner though :)

I have put about 30+ M4's of various sizes into numerous Precision 390, 3400, 3500, and OptiPlex's. With the 0309 and 000F firmware they are rock solid. In fact they did not have any problems for 6 months until the SMART bug error cropped up. They were very buggy pre 0309 firmware as L2ARC...

What do you use to serve DHCP to each VLAN? I know it is a n00b question but I have always wondered for something like a LAN party or medium sized network that uses multiple /24 subnets...

You might be able to get a refurb or "ordered but never shipped" server from DELL overnight. Check out their Outlet page. http://www.dell.com/outlet I know they were cleaning out R610 and R710s to make room for the 12G stuff...

The R620 is 1U, dual socket and has the flash card option. It also has the new iDRAC that has a vFlash option as well that can mirror the flash card in the front of the case for RAID 1 like redundancy. http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/poweredge-r620/pd

We’re currently running a zfs setup on solaris 11/11 on napp-it .8c Trying to add in an OCZ Talos2 as a write cache disk (ZIL) – and are finding that it is being detected by napp-it twice as such: c5t5E83A970000046E5d0 OCZ TALOS2 240.07 GB c7t5E83A970000046E5d0 OCZ TALOS2 240.07 GB...

What's the first thing you do with ~$4500 in 10GbE optics? Q1: Do you test all of them in the new switch you got? A1: No Q2: Do you check the packing slip to make sure they all arrived? A2: Hell No Q3: Do you arrange them on top of a VDX 6720 in the shape of the HardOCP symbol...

Have you tried testing with Windows Server 2008 R2/Win7? The 6/IR is no powerhouse but should be capable of 75-80MB/sec transfers. I am surprised that you are using Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 on such new hardware.

Do you really even need a ZIL if you are just serving up files/media at home? I swear I remember reading the ZIL is only really heavily used if you are doing lots of small reads and writes like to a DB or similar.

EDIT: I just found out I did need to use port 8337. DOH! *SMACKS HEAD* Anyone using Ubuntu 11.04 or 11.10 64bit to mine TBX? I get everything installed and can mine solo, but when I try to mine at solidcoin I get this: [2011-10-10 17:34:51] HTTP request failed: The requested URL returned...

Go figure the day after I start mining solidcoins, their entire base get shaken. It sounds like ruxum and others have stopped accepting SC transations. The Simplecoin SC pool is offline and SC Guild is shutting their SC pools down on the 11th. http://sc.btcguild.com/ Maybe it's time for me...

Yeah I'm stupid. I figured it out, I did not set the password properly on the worker thread on my account page for simplecoin

No dice with 8337 either. Must be something on my end, not certain what though. I just noticed they use both ports in the "Getting Started" guide... http://solidcoin.simplecoin.us/gettingstarted.php

Is pool.simplecoin.us:9337 still down? I am trying to get started with this using Solidcoin and the simplecoin pool but keep getting this error: [2011-09-03 11:46:36] No servers were found that could be used to get work from. [2011-09-03 11:46:36] Please check the details from the list...

@ houkouonchi : What RAID level is that? I tried to discern from your screenshots but was unable to.

With that Sans Digital box and RAID5 you would have ~ 21TB of useable space (before formatting). After formatting I think it would be like a touch under 20TB. RAID 5 would allow you to suffer one drive loss without data loss. **EDIT** I was wrong, that model you initially linked only does...

That unit supports RAID which is nice, but if you need 24TB of useable space you will need something that supports more drives. Or are you just looking to use this as a JBOD box and that is it?

Never had a watercooled CPU. Here's to hoping it happens.

I have never dumped backups to NFS or iSCSI, we have always used tape loaders everywhere I have ever worked. We do dump to local disk and then to tape though using BackupExec 2010 R2. Have you looked at BackupExec from Symantec yet? It is kind of a pain to get going but once it is setup it...

I am a hardcore G.Skill RAM user, however the Corsair SSD's that I just got rock the shizor out of my testicles. I could not ask for a better SSD. Thanks Corsair!

I've never actually owned a set of Corsair speakers. I am rocking some AudioEngine's at this time, but am interested in the Corsair offerings after reading numerous reviews as well as wanting a 2.1 system. Consider me entered!

I am guessing campus LAN or a casino or something for all of those 3750s. Are the SFP only switches to span from the core?