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Looking for a PCIE x1 video cards. HDMI preferred, but DVI would work. Regular PCI would also work, but I don't know if they even made those back in the day. Have paypal, but would prefer to trade for some extra USB memory memory sticks I have (picture below). Thanks.

Load balancing with two connections from your ISP is pretty simple, actually. Like many have said, it will not speed up single connections, but will double your bandwidth, so that two connections in parallel can operate both at full speed. One router I know that can do dual WAN pretty simply...

The 290 is faster than all four put together, but expensive and hard to buy right now. I'd run the four you have, would get you close to 600kh/sec.

That's not too far out of whack of some of the ebay prices I've seen. I bet it actually sells.

It's working for me, I've got a dual P/S setup where I power up the 12V supply first, no issues so far.

Buy gift cards @ gyft.com - pretty much as good as cash if you buy Amazon ones... Instant (<60 seconds) transfer to my account. I've bought about $1k in the last week, zero issues. Great for xmas gifts too, lol.

Newegg has some 280x's for $299 right now - I bought the max of 2 off their site and 5 more off of ebay. Expect them to be OOS shortly... get them while you can!

It takes extra work with GParted to get all the boot sector stuff correct - not that I don't love GParted, but Clonezilla is a better option in this case.

I've got one, it's from a reference MSI 7970, perfect condition. Removed it to add watercooling. $35 shipped (USA).

Interesting point on the fans - the pictures show it has a couple, I'm hoping this particular design doesn't need too much extra cooling. And good point on the RC community - I use a 300W ATX supply to power my charger for my helo lipos ;)

I'll end up sticking the frankencomputers in the garage, so noise won't be that big of a deal, but yeah, my limited experience with servers has shown them to be way too loud for office use:)

I've seen a lot of 1300W+ power supplies on ebay lately from reputable manufacturers like HP - made for server use. So I would guess that they're probably pretty high quality units, meant to be run for long periods of time at medium/high loads. And they're super cheap - I'm talking under 30...

This is correct, and the best explanation of this phenomenon I've read. Took me a while to figure this out with trial and error :)

I've run 7990s and 7970s in a couple of GPU rigs... the 7990s are not the way to go. They get very hot, and in some of the older versions (read: the ones that are reasonably priced around $600), the voltage is locked on the 2nd GPU. All my 7970s overclock better than my 7990s. So I wouldn't...

You can do that, but it won't work like you think - the pool won't get any bigger until all drives in the vdev are upgraded to the larger size. So say you have a 5 device vdev, it will resilver fine each time you swap a drive, but it won't expand to the full size until you replace all five drives.

Price drop bump.

Sold! Thread done.

Bump. Still three left, nobody that PM'd me on the last three actually followed through with payment.

Sorry, had quite a few PMs ahead of you.

All now sold except 3 I was holding for Khadgar, I'm not sure if he's serious or not. Will wait until tomorrow, then the last 3 will be available again.

If all the reference ones are the same (not sure), I have a mint condition one that came off a MSI 7970.

I bought 19 of the HGST 4TB coolspin drives - 3 year warranty and reasonably priced. I will see how they hold up for the next few years :)

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Bump. Also will consider trades for Radeon 7970s.

I've already started selling off my 2TB drives, so nope, no backups left. It's a home server, so if somehow everything goes tits up so bad that I lose the whole server, well... that's life :) But I'm not going to tempt it by yanking drives without a cause. Understand that'd be a good test for...

I care more about OpenCL performance (not much of a gamer). I'm curious what sort of performance increases we'll see over the 7970, which currently leads the pack for single GPUs (e.g. http://compubench.com/result.jsp)

If you're a social networking site, I would guess you already have a lot of bandwidth, so maybe backing up to "the cloud" would make sense - on a high speed connection, moving 20TB of data to Amazon or one of the other reliable backup providers wouldn't be too time consuming.

My bad, sorry. There's actually three SAS cards in the box (was doing a changeover from 2TB to 4TB disks, so I had 39 drives hooked up through an expander). Anyway, you're right, the 1068e does NOT work on 4TB disks. The 4TB drives are hooked up with the 9201-16i and another card on the...

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I've thought about pulling a disk to see what happens, but I don't think I really want to go there intentionally :) Resilver and scrub ought to be about the same time, because the process is very similar. The server is very responsive during the resilver - it seems to run at a lower priority...

All right, data copy is done and I've been able to play around with it a bit. 19x4TB drives, RAIDZ3, LZ4 compression, and encryption all turned on. Can saturate my 1GBE connection to one client, which is all I cared about (both read and write). Scrubs are slow, but tolerable (just started...

For sale is an IBM LSI SAS3082E-R card (BR10i). Has 2x SFF-8087 connectors, can be flashed to any of the standard LSI firmwares. With regular bracket, so you can properly install this in a normal case. $35 shipped (USA)

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Supports ECC, wow.

I've got 18 Samsung HD204UI hard drives for sale. They're all the "original real" made in South Korea Samsung drives, bought around March 2011 and used ever since. I just upgraded the server to new drives, so I have a huge stack. None of them have any bad sectors or signs of trouble. I...

I'm not personally familiar with backblaze, but I can't imagine there's a requirement to power everything all the time. Why not turn on a few PB at a time (depending on what data you want to work with at any given moment). The rest can sit powered off.

Just a quick note - you want forward breakout cables, not reverse breakout cables.

I think you've answered your own question, the backplane is jacked up. If you've got some forward breakout cables, pull the drives out and plug them into the LSI cards directly and see if that helps (if you want to troubleshoot further before getting a new case). Monoprice has the cables for...

I store my ESXi boot and FreeNAS images on a thumb drive/SSD. Once those boot, and my storage is now accessible, I share out a directory from FreeNAS that holds my other VMs via NFS. It's pretty automatic without anything special from me - ESXi boots, FreeNAS boots, ESXi initially shows all my...