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On Linux as it's running on proxmox, with a samba share so that the SSD is available to the VMs, all on a ultra small Aliexpress PC. But I will consider a ZFS mirror on my main Windows PC. I think it might have some future in enterprise settings where windows servers are needed to run some...

ZFS on Windows ! I wasn't expecting that. At all. After many years on OpenIndiana with napp-it I just installed ZFS on Linux for the first time.

But the key you have isn't the key used to encrypt the data, right ? Only the master key.

These cards are made to run in servers with massive airflow, and ear busting fans. It doesn't mean that they need much cooling, just that the passive heatsink, in a regular desktop computer, doesn't do it. Any fan blowing some air on them will be enough.

I'm also in the camp that doesn't need much performance, and 1 week rebuilds aren't a problem (although I find HDDs pretty reliable, I have 19 14TB WD taken out of external drives and no failure after 3 years), with RAIDZ3 providing great safety with one drive down. If performance is needed...

Hello, long time I didn't say hello, as I'm too busy working and my server just runs fine. One thing I've always put off is encryption. I don't have super sensitive data so figured I didn't need it, and I'm worried I might do more harm than good if something goes wrong. So, is there a way to...

I've read quite of bit of stuff and indeed that Asrock was in my shortlist. Also Gigabyte boards. Meanwhile I decided the X570 doesn't have enough PCIe lanes for my taste, even the ASUS Pro WS X570-Ace which offers the most possibilities would limit my use, so I'm going for another platform...

Yeah that's basically why I'm making a thread, to find people who already tried. If I look at the Asus Pro WS X570-ACE : https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Pro-WS-X570-ACE/ One of the key points in the description is Reliable and responsive ECC memory suitable for mission critical tasks It's...

I see you recommended the RAM I'm looking at. As for registered memory, it's needed when you need massive amounts of memory, that the CPU memory controller can't deal with. ECC is unrelated to this. In fact I've read that ECC with the same chips as fast RAM can be run just as fast, including the...

Hello, I see people casually dropping 400-500 bucks on a mobo but to me this is inconceivable. It seems to me the Asrock range has good models for reasonable prices, basically any board in the range with 4 DIMM would be suitable for my use, and I might go for up to the Taichi price wise (I see...

Now resilvering is set to last about 2 days (probably 3, from experience) so that's good. I have a strange issue though. My pool had about 1% free space before I changed OS. That is, without reservation, that I had removed, as I need all the space I can get, and performance isn't my main...

So at first hipster looks like my old OI. Then I see things are missing. I'm having much trouble setting up vnc. I installed nappit and saw I could activate vnc with it, good, except where do I setup the password ? edit : OK I installed again and didn't try to do vnc myself, just used nappit...

OK I'll remove that disk and start preparing to install Hipster. I use some windows apps with Wine and I need a GUI. I want to stay on v28 though. Thanks

I can remove or I can't ? It's a raidz3 vdev with the original drive online so there shouldn't be a redundancy problem, right ? For your other suggestion, would I need to upgrade the pool or just import it in a newer system ? I can't upgrade my OI, it doesn't work (I messed too much with it)...

Don't get a cheap SATA3 card. My X58 system has SATA3 through an added JMICRON chip, and it's worthless, the ICH is much better even if SATA2.

Hello all. I've been running nappit on OI for years. I've started a replace of the wrong drive by mistake. Usually it wouldn't be a big issue, however I was already replacing another drive (expanding my pool) so now the result is a very slow resilver. The replaces aren't on the same vdev...

OK I figured it out, I needed to do this step first : use DNS name resolution (copy over DNS template) cp /etc/nsswitch.dns /etc/nsswitch.conf

Hello, I've installed the lastest OmniOS CE stable. I launch the napp-it install, and nothing much happens : aesma@omniosce:~$ wget -O - www.napp-it.org/nappit | perl --2018-03-08 08:08:15-- http://www.napp-it.org/nappit Resolving www.napp-it.org... 188.93.13.227, 2a00:1158:1000:300::368...

:hello: I'm doing my monthly scrub, and I'm seeing this : 98.7T scanned out of 187T at 4.47K/s, (scan is slow, no estimated time) Usually when I see this I reboot the server. However I'm doing other things at the moment, several copy jobs to and from the server, and the speeds are fine...

An answer for windows software RAID would be interesting. I have never used it, but considering how often windows wants you to reboot, it would be a shame if the rebuild would have to start again.

What about backup ? RAID is not backup.

It's not just eSATA it's eSATA + port multiplier. I actually changed mobo without improvement. The onboard controllers (Intel and something else I don't remember ATM) only see one drive, with the Marvell cards it works until it doesn't.

He wants a DAS not a NAS. The ones I have from Icy Dock are eSATA/USB and are only compatible with a Marvell chip provided in the form of a PCIe card, and even then I've stopped using the eSATA feature as sometimes when powering one unit it would crash my computer. So my faith in eSATA is gone...

Total storage : 209TB All in a single server, single ZFS array. Tower specs : Case: noname crap PSU: Fortron Aurum 500W Motherboard: Asus M5A97 R2.0 CPU: AMD Phenom X6 1045T RAM: Kingston 16GB DDR3 PC12800 ECC Controller Cards: IBM M1015@9211IT & LSI 9240@9211IT SSD: 2x120GB SanDisk...

I understand that there are money considerations, however I wouldn't buy one single drive, because that means you have no backup. After a string of failures and loss of data more than 10 years ago (Maxtor 160GB overheating) I started buying hard drives two at a time. Now it's more like 20 at a...

Yes, that's the main reason. With 512b sectors it's not so big of a problem but with 4K, the problem is compounded.

In my main rig I have a 1TB SSD and 6TB Red. I recently noticed that the Red would go to sleep (something I explicitly disabled, so I don't know why) because resuming the playing of a video after some time would take some seconds : I didn't hear it spin down or up at all. Reading or writing is...

I agree, however if your computer is compromised, then it's game over, even if you have other layers of encryption, you can't be safe. That's why I suggest to dedicate a computer to sensitive matters, shut down most of the time.

Secure erase is the way to delete an SSD, but I agree you can never know if everything is really gone. However he's totally wrong about FDE. Not everything is decrypted when the OS is running, everything on the drive stays encrypted all the time. So there is no need to worry about erasing...

Get a 512GB or 1TB SSD, put most or all programs (games) on it. Then get a regular 7200rpm HDD (3 or 4TB is the best size for the price at the moment) for the rest. And of course have a backup solution in place (such as an external 4TB). SomeGuy133 you're not making much sense. If you're...

Do you have backups ?

SSDs, unlike HDDs, have firmware updates, are you using the latest one ? Samsung has had plenty of problems, especially with the EVO.

1 year since I went from a 256GB to a 1TB SSD and that was a great move. I still have a HDD as a second drive though (a 6TB Red), only for media.

There is a bit of a slowdown at work and my boss, who earns the equivalent of a 6 figures salary in the US, thinks it's a good idea to look into the trash at work for metal to sell. At first it was copper wire, mainly very thick electrical wire from decommissioned back-up systems (up to one inch...

I'm reviving that old thread, since nobody has really answered the OP, and I have the same question. What material is a hard drive casing made of ? Not the platters, not the magnets, not the heads, but the cast casing, clearly the biggest and heaviest part (at least on a 3,5" HDD). Thanks

I've got 20 HGST Desktar NAS 4TB and 25 WD Red 4TB. Anything enterprise is much more expensive, certainly not 10-20$. After a couple of months in my ZFS NAS 2 of the WD Red are showing errors. They're not dead, but not perfect (ZFS doesn't drop them yet, but soon). Not a single error on the HGST.

If you want good confidentiality, you need at least two computers, with one that is never online. On the online one, do only harmless stuff, and when you need to send your world domination plans to a colleague (made on the offline computer of course), encrypt everything before transferring from...

I don't think it's a bug, ImgBurn is made to burn images, it supports ape and flac (which are not CD images) only if your OS has a directshow filter for those : ImgBurn supports a wide range of image file formats - including BIN, CCD, CDI, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI. It can...

I used to burn with nero, but not trust it with flac/ape. Instead I used foobar2000 to make a nero image first. I'm not sure if foobar2000 still has a nero plugin.

Since you're starting from scratch, I would test your various options.