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Ok so I had an old thread using old mellanox connectx-1 and connectx-2 cards. they had a proprietary CX4 port Worked great on Windows 10 and server 2022. My recent PC build for my gaming rig placed NIC standing up and the proprietary cable is stiff and i wasnt going to drill a hole in my case...

I am by far not a networking guy... I know I tend to go all over so I will put this at the top so people can know what I am asking early... Switch Recommendations for 5 current machines to go 10gb with expansion to 8? Looking at this but reviews don't seem too great (yes on a slight budget)...

I have had a computer running Server 2022 with an HBA and extender. Running stablebit drive pool with an ssd pool and sata pool. Random drops on drives that has been frustrating me. I have upgraded to Server 2022 a few months ago. I didnt really "upgrade" but I boot off of a thumb drive and...

I have an on going issue and not gettig anywhere with fixing it so I figure lets try something different. I currently have an HP H220 8-i card that was working flawlessly in Server 2019 for a while. It started giving me issues with random hard drives dropping from my system. This H220 drives an...

Ok so I have been pulling what little hair I have left out. I understand, from googling and searching this site, that enterprise hardware (HBA) on consumer products is what it is... I have an i5-6500k where I have had an HP H220 and 36 port expander running for years. Blunder on my end...

This is going to be a long post so I apologize up front!!! LOL Years ago, I setup a machine - can be seen here with stablebit - https://community.covecube.com/index.php?/topic/5-my-rackmount-server/&do=findComment&comment=30081 It has been running server 2019 for few years and been great...

I feel so dumb asking this... on my new build, I have an MSI Z690-A DDR4 motherboard. After finally getting it up and running, I need to get usb working. Case is a Thermal Take Tower 900 and I have an internal card reader I have added as well. I bought a Y adapter to connect them both and USB3...

I have been all over google... everyone says try different size thumb drives..usb 2.0... I tried from 64mb all the way to 32gb. msi.rom on thumb in fat 32 and after pressing flash button, light flashes 6 times... just wont flash and wont post with my i9-13900k.. Going to store to look for an 8gb...

I have been running the very old Mellanox CX1 (HP branded with fw 2.8 and 2.9) in Windows 10 for years and love it. Just went to Windows 11 and tried my same steps... install Win-OF 5.50 (MLNX_VPI_WinOF-5_50_50000_All_Win2016_x64.exe) and WinMFT (WinMFT_x64_3_5_0_16.exe) I have a youbube video...

Aight I am a winderz guy 100%. I dabble here and there just for fun. I installed proxmox to install Windows 11 and all of that is up and running just honkey dory.. well I am on my 1gb network and would love to get 10gb going. Can anyone assist me, I mean like major hand hold me??? Same cards...

<<<<<Rough original post....>>>>> I run Stablebit Drive Pool and love it. Works really well for what it is and my use. I have two pools: Sata and SSD, and both were locked from writing to. I logged in and saw 3 drives missing on SATA Pool and 5 missing on SSD pool. I wrote them down and...

I have a friend selling some memory and curious if I should go for 32gb faster ram or 64gb slight slower Building a machine that will be an i9-13900k and have the msi pro ddr4 motherboard. Will I see a difference between 64gb(16gbx4) pc4-2933Y vs 32gb (16gbx2) pc4-3200A ? Thx!

Ok so I had a dell t5810 (got off of craigslist) and had questions over the last few years.. upgrade cpu, etc.. but then started acting up and it sat dead... replaced mobo and PSU and it still randomly shuts off or reboots.. whatever.. moving on.. I got a Lenovo P710 off of craigslist and...

So this is a multi part question here... first will give quick history, then questions and thoughts... Thermaltake Tower 900... I am building slow as we were looking into some things like a new truck/5th wheel camper.. but our 2016 jeep wrangler got hit on fathers day (with us in it) and it...

Looking at adding a card reader to my build in progress... I have a dslr and do use an external unit now for CF and SD and Micro SD (for 3d printer) Now I am thinking just get one with USB-C as well to charge my cell phone.. what do you think about this...

Ok I bought a Thermaltake 900 Tower... yes huge, but I wanted it pre covid at $250 then shot up to $475 during covid.. scored one on amazon last week @$250!!!! so next up is power supply on my slow build. I was told best to go with 1000w cuz eventually if I water cool plus all the fans this...

I used to do ebay and stopped for a while.. turns out their fees are horrible so trying to rely on forums or FB and figured let me try here first.. All items are working pulls as i have upgraded machines of mine and my families... and need to cleanup... and had a few machines die that were in my...

I tend to blabber so .. abridged version: * Looking for recommendations on rgb fans and fan controller that would look good in that case - Thermaltake 900 Tower in black Also PSU - still running the old one yall recommended many moons ago.. Corsair hx620w and it is now in my storage server...

Whelp I have been enjoying my 10gb ConnectX-1 cards connected to my HP Procurve 6400CL, then fed into a brocade 48 port that gets me out to the internet. Few years back EniGmA1987 helped me get this all going. Infiniband cards moved over to IP and all good.. Well I do have these Infinband...

I am at wits end... I have a thread where yall helped me figure out the best cpu upgrade for this machine is the e5-2678 v3 here - https://hardforum.com/threads/dell-t5810-cpu-upgrade.1953578 This was in January... and the system has been running GREAT... Gaming, photo and video editing... been...

Yall helped me with my Dell T5810 cpu upgrade here - https://hardforum.com/threads/dell-t5810-cpu-upgrade.1953578 That machine just started having issues after vacation. Before vacation I powered it off and turned all power strips off for a week. Get home and the computer will not stay up and...

I have always owned my own cable modem so I do not mind paying the extra cost as eventually you break even. Used to be able to get a cable modem on sale and with rebate making it like $40-$60 at bestbuy... anyway... xfinity upgraded my internet from 600mb down to 800mb down but my cable modem...

I love my keyboard, but since I have got a logitech G935 headset, the new G-Hub does not support the keyboard. Now... I have not installed either sw after my reinstall of the OS but it got me wondering... Someday, my keyboard is going to die and I need to find a replacement as one of the...

Ok so I have an old thread where I used old Mellanox CX1 cards. they have a proprietary port called CX4... well in this thread, i talk about it and get it working.. https://hardforum.com/threads/starting-to-play-with-10gb-mellanox-and-need-help.1973101/ so in all have been great but just last...

so I have 4 machines on 10gb through an hp procurve 6400cl into a Brocade FCX648S and out onto my 1gb network... now life was peachy... server 2019 Windows 10 x2 ESXI 6.7 ESXI 6.7 upgraded one esxi box to esxi 7 and my old card is no longer supported, thus no 10gb... now i thought maybe to...

Ok so first is first.. this site and the knowledge is awesome! back in 2009, I was assisted with a pc build and it suited me for many years.. q6600 step 0, 8gb ram, corsair h620x (still works and in my storage machine!!!!), dual 9600 gtx+ cards.. well that computer is long gone, every bit...

Ok so I bought this switch from ebay to utilize the cx4 ports on the back to get my 10gb network tied into my 1gb network. This is working and is AWESOME!!!!! was bit of a curve setting up but it is all good. I enabled the web console page, also added a user with priv 0 for admin... I can get...

Ok so I have a 10gb network with all Connectx-1 and Connectx-2 cards that have the CX4 plug. They work great. I am getting 10gb in Windows 10, Server 2019 and even ESXI. FreeNAS does too if I run 11.1u7 - anything newer and it doesn't see the card. anywho… I also run an HPE OfficeConnect 1820...

Ok so now that my machine is up and running... and I have 3x 8i cards in it... I'm out of pci-e slots and want to get my 10gb nic back in... thus I need a 16i card (well 2 really)... but for now 1 will do... for SSD... will the 9201-16i @ 6gb be sufficient? I am running them individually so...

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-Z170XP-SLI-rev-10#ov A bud gave me this board with an i5-6600k and memory. I have had it up and running in a corsair 750d case, with tons of drives. It has been working great for the last few months. I just got my drive bays in from Corsair... went to...

Ok so first is first.. I am a non storage guy at all... at work, we are going to use a netapp with say 100tb of space. The storage team told me that we can only have 16tb shares. I googled it and I see that netapp has this limitation. so from my Hardforum Peeps!!!!! I do not want the overhead...

Ok so I used to use Flickr for forums that only allow you to provide a link to a pic... Others used photobucket, but they went paid version and people lost pics...ok then our soccer team uses teamsnap, used too... well they lowered their picture section as I would upload, next week delete old...

I have a Dell Powerconnect 2724 and I just went 10gb on my test lab area. The testlab area is using an HP Procurve 6400cl - CX4 ports vs rj45... so.. I am trying to figure out if it is possible to get them connected together so I can ditch the 1gb lines on my testlab pcs. for the powerconnect...

ok so I have a dual xeon with 128gb ram and 2x ssd drives that I use for VMs. Works great, fast and no issues. This is in my "Lab" and I want to start to tinker in other areas but just want to see if anyone sees any issues here. A bit ago I tried creating a cluster and put 2 different...

so I am sitting here working and have 2 keyboard, 2 mice, 32" (1440p) and 24" (1080p) monitor. I keep grabbing wrong mouse and typing on wrong keyboard... I need a dual monitor kvm that wont break the bank as I'm seeing them for $250 and up... 4 port @ $1000!!!!!! so anyone using one that wont...

Ok so my case is old.. 2008.. and just repurposing it, I see that the fans are crap. so googling, im seeing the Antec 900 case is still a bit pricey to just go buy a new one and curious on what fans would be a good choice to replace with? my current top 200mm is toast. Not sure what happened...

Ok so network n00b here.. but I got a procurve 6400 6 port switch up and running. it is running an old version (believe 2007 and 2016 fw is available)... so can someone explain to me how to do this.. yes I need a start to finish please!!!

Ok so got my 10gb network going.. now onto drive bottlenecks... so ive been needing to put together a NAS.. toying with FreeNAS 11 and 12... 12 doesn't support my 10gb nic so gotta stay 11 for now. ive got a ton of WD black drives. not going to get in the discussion that I need red drives. I...

Payment via PayPal only OBO accepted... I bought stuff to make a freenas box without checking into it. I used some parts that were free... from friends but drives i bought without understanding red drives were for nas... i bought wd blacks as I figured high speed desktop drives... oh well...

Ok I know whats going in our head... yeah this post wonders all over the place. hope you can follow!!!! hah sorry my adhd brain is on fire!!!!!!! oh crap another n00b.. oh great.... your partially right. but I have been doing computers long enough to tell you that my favorite O/S was … Dr...