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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...

Yes, open vm tools were installed, via the package manager. There were 2 different ackages, but I could not tell the difference between them, so I just picked one. Rody and shiznit, what are you running for host hardware?

That's too bad. My only real theory at this point is that its something to do with my Realtek NIC, it seemed in that thread that people with Intel cards had less problems. I am going to try to run a test that tests a completely virtualized workload: VM->pfsense->VM, that should show some...

Hello, Recently set up an ESX server with the goal of consolidating some systems - notably a fileserver and router. Specs: CPU: i5-3570 Motherboard: Asrock Pro4-M LAN NIC: Intel 82572EI GigE WAN NIC: Realtek 8168 (on the host, pfsense connected through vSwitch) pfsense VM has 2 e1000-based...

I get very similar 802.11g transfer speeds (~1.5MiB/s), but I attribute that to the environment (steel framed building, I can see over 10 networks at better than 2 "bars" signal. Those speeds on gigabit are pretty low though, have you tried using FTP instead of windows filesharing? At least for...

See of you can configure your router to not hand out a gateway over DHCP, or configure your computer to have a static address with no gateway, that way it will continue to use your cell connection for internet. As for sharing your internet connection, you might try using window's ICS, which is...

DHCP, but it does not even get to that point - the cable, and indeed everything works fine after a single reboot.

Oh, I forgot - when it is "dead" it shows up in lspci just as it does normally. Unfortunately the machine is headless so it is tough to do anything when the network does not work :P I just updated the system and simulated a cold boot by unplugging the network cable, turning the power off at...

Your router should have some sort of ping utility from the web interface, as well as detailed status on your WAN link. Make sure you are getting an IP address from your ISP, then try pinging google or something from the router itself to see if that works. If it does, then the problem is...

Hello, I have an intel PCI-E gigabit network card, and recently it started failing to even get a physical link (as indicated by a switch) after post( during boot it briefly flickers on then off), but only if the system it is in is cold booted (power removed, power applied, then booted). If I...

Well, after months of thinking the problem is fixed (new install, XP SP3 now), the problem has returned. Curiously enough, just when I have returned home for the first time since this thread started. Same problem as before, the classic "lock up" - static display image, etc. This time I have...

Hello, I noticed there is a lot of broadcast traffic on my network - and after capturing that traffic with Wireshark, it all seems to be coming from a single windows XP computer. Wireshark's "Info" field tells me that the machine does the following, all within 3 seconds, spaced equally: 3x...

As p3n said, are you sure you added a firewall rule? You can double check that the firewall is not catchign stuff in Status>System Logs > Firewall. Also, make sure your torrenting client machine does not ahve any firewall on it, or it at least permitting BT traffic. If you have to add a...

Hello, I am having some issues with windows XP's advanced file sharing (simple file sharing disabled). Everything works fine if the user has an account on the machine, but I have not been able to make anonymous filesharing work. A user whose local username is not a valid user on the remote...

Is it possible to change the port that pfsense's IPsec runs on? My ISP blocks port 50 inbound. Thanks.

Yep, forgot to mention that, bios was updated at first onset of symptoms, It also happens on 2 different revisions of video driver, one very old, the other the latest. I have also been quite careful to avoid any kind of overheating, most of the time the laptop sits on a cooling pad, or on a...

Hello, Recently, my T60 will occasionally hang (display remains constant, no mouse, no network, no flagrant system log errors) after being booted or resumed from standby. As far as I can tell, it is completely stable in all other respects, it has been run for days, even weeks, with several...

Just got this error again, this time copying about 120GB worth of 7GB files from my internal SATA disk to a network drive. Everything I have found on google points to it being something to do with running out of ram and or pagefile, but after watching the transfer for 10 min in task manager, I...

I have some WD drives and some samsung drives in the array - none are raid specific. Anyway, doesn't restricting the drive's internal error correction and relaying on the raid to do it instead (the rationale I understand behind TLER) make it mroe likley a drive failure will result in data...

Hello, I am currently running several drives (4x500GB) in linux software raid 5 (mdadm), but as I am running out of space and my entire array can now by displaced by a single drive ( :( ), I am considering an overhaul. Currently, I am looking at an Areca ARC-1210 controller, but I am...

Well, it seems this is irrelevant - with the help of a friend I found out that the chipset has a hardware limit of 2TB, which is rather disappointing - I will be looking into other options. Thanks for looking

I have a DFI Lanparty UT nf590 SLI M2R-G, and was wondering if the NF590 sata controller supported online expansion for RAID 5. The controller is an Nvidia MCP55PXE.

The destination drive is indeed NTFS - with 111GB free. I have the latest chipset drivers, and AVG has its Resident Shield disabled. I have now successfully copied the file using linux and nautilus. Thanks for your help.

I am restoring a friend's laptop, and went to copy a 92GB image off of a network server to a USB drive so that it can be read by the bootable restore cd. It got a little over halfway through before I got an "insufficient resources to complete the service" error. I have 2GB of physical ram and...

I recently got around to installing AHCI drivers on my laptop (ICH7), and to my disappointment I can no logner read smart data off my hard drive. This happened with my desktop's jmicron controller as well. Does enabling AHCI somehow preclude smart from working? Thanks for your help.

Hello, I recently installed vista (64 bit) on my T60, mainly to try it out. One of the biggest things I was looking to learn was how much power it would use vs XP. The results so far have been, well, tragic. XP will let me get down to around 13W on battery, w/o wireless, doing basic...