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    GPU Pass through with a Sapphire 290 and Supermicro X9SAE-V

    I haven't posted here in a while but wanted to throw some info out and maybe get some as well.. I attempted to pass through a radeon 290 to my new supermicro board.. I have another one but it has KVM(which is unusable when doing passthrough) and it only has 2 8x slots that are actually 8x size...
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    GPO Problem with 2003 R2 Local System Account

    Alright I've been trying to figure this out for almost two days and I've never heard of this happening truthfully so I'm hoping one of you guys can help me.. Some how on one of our terminal servers the NT Authority\System account has gotten GPO applied to it. We use GPOs to restrict exe usage on...
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    Intel CX4 Dual Port Network Cards

    I have a san with two hyper-v vm boxes connected with theses. For the life of me though I've not been able to achieve over 8 Gbe. I'm using ntttcp to do the testing and here are the settings that are used. Sender: ntttcps -m 1,1,10.0.130.50 -l 1048576 -n 100000 -w -v -a 8 Receiver...
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    Adaptec Storage Manager - Easy Firmware Updates

    I thought I'd post this since I've never read it on adaptec's site or here or really anywhere.. You don't know to use DOS to update the firmware of your drives or your raid card apparently. I realized today that Adaptec Storage Manager has a built in firmware updater for both hard drives and the...
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    HA VM Server System build - Need to know what you all think

    Alright I'm bad at painting pictures but I'll try to give you the jest of it.. Basically I've been trying to convince my company for months now that VM is a good idea and moving to it would save us time, money(in the long run), electric, and many other things like protection from major things...
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    Norco 4220 Case Hotswap problems

    I was wanting to know if anyone has ever successfully hot swapped a drive out of your norco case while the array was up and running? Like if one of your disks went bad and you swapped it out. I've done many tests in different scenarios and can't achieve this. I was wondering if I am simply doing...
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    Very slow read/writes with chenbro sas expander

    I have an adaptec 4505 raid card with 4 hard drives in a raid 0(to test my theory). I hooked the 4 drives directly to the raid card and did a speed test. The results as you can see are very favorable.. But then I simply take the sas cable and plug it into the chenbro sas expander and bam...
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