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I assume then that this is normal (since Time Slider has been having fun making snapshots while the disks were in a degraded state)? Once the scan finishes it should be back online? pool: data state: DEGRADED status: One or more devices could not be opened. Sufficient replicas exist...

So I am working on trying to get my backup server back up and running, but in the meantime I would like to prevent any additional data loss on my primary array. Now that we've ruled it a power issue, is there a way I can clear the ZFS checksum errors by forcing a resliver? I checked the drives...

If I could hug you I would. I completely removed the new pool and the entire original array came online. It's absolutely I overloaded the molex expander from Norco. Now I just need to figure out a way to power all 6 backplanes without the use of expanders. Or else, not chain all of them off...

All the drives are showing up on the LSI control utility, and it's a single rail 900-something watt PSU. However, it is running a Norco 1-8 molex expansion. I'll try re-wiring it with the first few rows using the straight PSU molex. Otherwise I'll have to track down another PSU.

Right now it's running using SFF-8087 cabling on 3 IBM M1015 controllers. What would be the best way to test the controllers since I don't have any in reserve and no real funds to buy more at this point?

Allright I'm stumped. I got all the rest of the disks online and then when I tried to start a zfs send to the new pool it crashed. When I rebooted, I found this: I'm fairly sure I wouldn't go from 1 dead drive (unvail) to 5 dead drives. What is the best way to mount this read-only and...

Ahh, I was thinking you were looking at 3TB drives - which I would suggest. The 3TB version has a slightly lower price/GB (actually if my math is right the 3TB and 4TB match). If your controller supports the larger drives I would highly recommend going with a larger drive as you'll get much...

Having a SAS connector opens you up to better compatibility with advanced SAS technologies like SAS expanders - effectively allowing you to chain chassis together using SAS external cabling and connects 50+ disks to a single host. From what I've heard depending on what you get SATA drives can...

I thought about that but since my array is all 4k 3TB drives I figured there was probably no way to force just one. I'm re-arranging my pools when I get my next shipment of drives in so I can have the new pool be ashift=12. It was my noobie mistake not forcing it on the pool in the first place.

Yea, I found R-studio years ago when my data drive accidentally got wiped out, recovered it 100% and it sold me on the product. I can't tell you how many times I've recovered 100% of USB pendrives that decided to format themselves too.

Since it's a 3-way mirror, I'd say offline the drive (command line: zpool offline <pool> <device ID>), pull the drive, then go to Disks> Replace. So long as it doesn't report as a 4k drive you should be gold. If it gives you the error I got then you need to find another older model drive that...

^^This if your computer supports it. OpenIndiana is SUCH a pita that I purely use it for storage. I connect about 3 Ubuntu-based VMs to it over Cifs (since I have heavy NTFS permissions to secure data and NFS was hosing those). It makes it so much easier. Just make sure your chipset...

Try scanning it with a recovery utility like R-Studio or GetDataBack. I've had great success with R-Studio recovering everything short of a mechnically failed drive (including complete recovers off dying disks sitting in coolers with dry ice)

You sir are my hero. That was it! Odd that this is the first time I've had to do that, I think the others worked fine. I could be mistaken however. BTW, From my research, there's no way to convert from ashift 9 to ashift 12 on a pool with data on it correct? The best I can do is move it to...

I seem to have run into a strange issue: I ordered 6 new drives for adding a 3rd vdev and when the disks are in Napp-it seems to hang on the following: errors: No known data errorsexe (get-desk.pl 28): parted -lm I suspect a drive is DOA, but it seems that the drive that sits on the...

It wont be cheap, but all my monitor mounts have been Chief. I'd suggest looking at their desk mounts: http://www.chiefmfg.com/Mount-Finder/DELL/U3011#/%7C%7CDesk%20Mounts I bought the tripple screen KTC mount and a desk plate since I can't put my monitors on a desk clamp due to my desk being...

I haven't had any issues with mine - but at this point my 4224 is half full. Been running for just shy of a year.

I'm not sure how cachecade works with reading the metadata (that's what would speed up access times, but it dramatically speeds up file access with recently written/read files. I've gotten close to 1GB/s on and off a CacheCade-enabled array, and it only did about 600MB/s when I ran a write/read...

It's a text-based interface but you use keyboard commands, ie F10=start. It's all on the screen and really easy to follow.

I second DBAN - just whatever you plug it into make absolutely sure you don't select the drives or better yet: pull the drives you don't want to destroy. I always do just because DBAN is that good. Start DBAN, select all the disks, and change it from 3-pass to just a simple zero-out. It'll...

Gotcha. It looks like at this point it's doing system-based automatic snapshots - likely due to Time Slider being enabled on the server. The one thing I do like about that is it gives me more frequent snapshots when I'm heavily using the file system. I suppose that I should just disable the...

I have a question: I've been running my server since about April/May last year and it seems that Napp-it's snaps never get deleted. Is there a way to make it auto destroy after X days/weeks/months? Ninja Edit: Gea - This has gotta be one of the best filers I've ever used at home. The power...

I did the same - I was running a direct-attached Drobo, but needed something more of a NAS (while maintaining full OSes for security/abilities) so I went with a new server build using a SuperMicro board and Norco Case. The Norco case is cheap, but it's built extremely well for the cost. It's...

for the IBM card, keep looking on ebay, I found mine on there with a bracket.

a maxed out I7 and 32GB of RAM should be plenty for 5-8 systems. I'd look into getting external drives though. What will kill you is random read/write as 5-8 systems all hammer a single drive at once.

If you're trying to send mutiple VLANs to your guest, the easiest way I've found is make vSwitches for each VLAN (with the correct VLAN IDs) and add mutiple NICs to a guest. I think you can have up to 8 NICs with ESXi 5, so theoretically you should be fine.

Your laptop is a good amount more powerful than your desktop: i7 vs i3 (HUGE difference) 32GB vs 8 (You could setup a RAM drive for 10GB easy, and it would be CRAZY fast) and the kicker: You have 2 SSDs (faster than platter HDDs) in RAID 0. If that's hardware RAID, it'll be tough to beat that...

I think you can go MBR -> GPT without reformatting on windows. That said, whenever you do any sort of drive manipulation, make sure you have a copy of everything on the drive backed up.

Unless you want to go with 2 mirrored vdevs, I'd say yes, go get two more drives. That said, I'm just starting out as well, but I know you want redundancy against HDD failure.

Yes and no - when you're using your camera, the light is directed upwards to the viewfinder & there's shutter curtains blocking the sensor, so it's only exposed for 1/4000 or however fast your exposure is. Where you get in trouble is "Live View" mode or video recording, because the mirror is...

Photo slideshow to play wherever? Need music? I'd say your best bet is to use iMovie or Windows Movie Maker. You make it a video & then the transitions always are exactly like you wanted them, unlike PowerPoint. The best ever to me is a program called MediaShout, but it's WAY overkill for...

Can't do that.. against TOS. It's keys for one user. I for one don't want to risk loosing something as good as TechNet.

I have used my keys for all sorts of different machines, I've never had to call - though I admit I bounce around with keys.

I believe you have to order TechNet, and then on the confirmation you should get a Subscriber ID. You then link that to your Windows Live ID and then you don't need your subscriber ID anymore :)

This past weekend IronMods was at the San Franscisco Exploratorium doing an extreme overclocking demonstration with Liquid Nitrogen. Here's some pictures I took while I was there: More Pictures and larger sizes available on my flickr photoset. Note: I don't know if this is...

Here's the full list of everything on TechNet, for reference. I apologize for the long post, but this gives you an idea what you're getting access to :D Applications * Access 2003 * Access 2007 * Accounting * Business Contact Manager * Business Contact Manager 2010...

I believe Exchange 2007 was x64 only. As far as Forefront - they have ISA server 2004 & 2007, as well as Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010. If you'd like, I can post a full list of the software available on TechNet later (without keys or downloads, of course.)

Some of us have been on TechNet for a while and used it for 7 beta/RC. My laptop is one of them :) And yes - TechNet has every single Server release since 2003, as well as every client release from XP. Including R2 & WHS Server There's also a couple of other neat things with TechNet - it's...

I suspected it was a genuine copy of Windows Server, so I wanted to test a theory. Only problem was that completely broke the WHS config tool :P

I ran dcpromo. Implementing the domain controller security stuff broke it quick :)