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Hi, I thought I should share a way to use the HP p400 RAID controller on a non-HP server/board with ESXi. As it seems, there's no driver for the p400 on ESXi 5.1, also, there are no drivers to install for 5.1 afterwards. I've seen the storage, but on every try to format it, I received a...

Hey guys, for my new fileserver, I bought the following hardware: - SuperMicro X9SCM-F Board - Intel Xeon E3-1230 - 16GB ECC RAM (4x4GB Kingston DDR3-1333) - HP Smart Array p410 w/ 512MB + BBU - HP SAS Expander (green) I just received the RAID controller 2 days ago and tried to...

Hey guys, I will (hopefully tomorrow) receive a HP SmartArray P410 (512MB/BBU). I want to run it for a couple of days until I will receive the HP SAS Expander. I wonder if a RAIDset would survive if I create it now (6 drives) and then, when the SAS Expander arrived, switch them to it. System...

Hey guys, I could need some comments on my current "can't decide" issue ;) I've a bunch of HDs here (6x 1.5TB / 8x 1TB) and in the past I was playing with ZFS as fileserver a lot. Started with OpenSolaris, but when this was "closed", I moved along to Nexenta. There I had a lot of issues...

Hey guys, I'm currently in a dilemma. I'm not sure if I should set to ZFS or a "classic" Adaptec 51645. I have bought a Yeong Yang Cube with place for 20 HDs. I have here: 5x Samsung HD541UI 1.5TB 3x WD Green "EARS" (4k Cluster) 1.5TB 6x WD Green 1TB 2x Hitachi 1TB 3x WD Blue 640GB + a 32GB...