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    Gigabyte 970 G1 Gaming rev 1.0 vs 1.1

    i just ordered one from newegg last friday 10/24/2014 and it's rev 1.0. no whine at all. fan noise is a little louder than expected at idle ~1600rpm
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    Anyone used CrashPlan?

    I dont trust any of my data on a cloud server without the ability to encrypt data myself with my own passphrase ie: if the host is compromised, my data is secure. if there is a court order, my data is unviewable
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    OpenIndiana/Solaris Supermicro X9SCA-F network hangs

    what causes it to hang? when u access OI from a windows machine via cifs? i had issues with my windows machine until I upgraded my NIC drivers from the mobo manufacturer. The default windows drivers gave me problems for some reason--and only with OI CIFS, nothing else. putting it out there just...
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    Realtek 898

    a discrete sound card will sound decent until you hear what a usb DAC sounds like with decent speakers (ie: Swan's)
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    OpenSolaris derived ZFS NAS/ SAN (OmniOS, OpenIndiana, Solaris and napp-it)

    yea mang I had weird issues my with baremetal windows 7 machine with default realtek drivers talking to open indiana. I never had any network issues before until I started using OI. so it threw me for a while until I installed the realtek drivers from my mobo manufacturer and all my probs went away
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    OpenSolaris derived ZFS NAS/ SAN (OmniOS, OpenIndiana, Solaris and napp-it)

    did you install the latest drivers for the client nics??? (not the windows default ones)
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    Advice buying new sound card - SB Audigy dead (R.I.P)

    sound cards are stupid and sound like crap an external usb dac is where its at
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    VT-d

    If your going to do the best thing ever, aka an All In One solution, then yea you need it
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    Some cliche new build questions

    me love all in one long time
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    newbie question about raid/sas configuration and calculation

    why need expander card with norco sas to sas cable with norco. they tell u on their site which cable u need if connecting to sas hba
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    OpenSolaris derived ZFS NAS/ SAN (OmniOS, OpenIndiana, Solaris and napp-it)

    I'm using ESXi 5... ur using esx? also my esxi is patched fully. (note: each patch is cumulative so just install the latest build #)
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    OpenSolaris derived ZFS NAS/ SAN (OmniOS, OpenIndiana, Solaris and napp-it)

    Maybe try Wireshark as a debug tool
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    OpenSolaris derived ZFS NAS/ SAN (OmniOS, OpenIndiana, Solaris and napp-it)

    are you using vmxnet3 or e1000 on the openindiana VM? i dont have any issues with update3, using e1000 on the openindiana vm and vmxnet3 on the windows 2008r2 vm. havent tried the vmxnet3 on the openindiana vm though because ive heard people report issues with it and solaris
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    SSD for ZIL

    if you run disk benchmarks (like hd tune) inside a VM, use a paravirtual scsi adapter
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    OpenSolaris derived ZFS NAS/ SAN (OmniOS, OpenIndiana, Solaris and napp-it)

    I dont seem to have that issue. I have almost same setup as you mentioned (i have raidz2 and sync disabled) . image below is going from my win7 workstation (not a vm) to OI CIFS Share http://i.imgur.com/BaKHC.png Is yours also from a non-vm -> OI CIFS share? Might try upgrading/installing nic...
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    ZFS ZIL write cache device Ok to use virtualized hdd disk?

    Hmm.. Does this work?, I did: http://i.imgur.com/5zKxI.png then zfs set sync=standard tank/data zfs set sync=disabled tank/data/download
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    ZFS ZIL write cache device Ok to use virtualized hdd disk?

    Oh ok I didnt know I could do that. I guess the only issue then would be instant move operations over CIFS wont work anymore
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    ZFS ZIL write cache device Ok to use virtualized hdd disk?

    I guess this doesnt work for me in my case because i have one big dataset so I cant disable sync on just the torrent folder .. but then again for my home use, disabling sync wont hurt the rest of the data i store in the dataset either since it's mostly a download/media server
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    ZFS ZIL write cache device Ok to use virtualized hdd disk?

    omg I have the same problem and had no idea why. uTorrent "Disk Overloaded" ... i'll have to try some of these fixes
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    Flexraid now costs $... any alternative?

    whats the difference between snapshot raid and live raid? edit: looked it up Real-time RAID is a RAID mechanism whereby the parity information is updated as soon as you make any changes to your data. This means that the Array is always up to date and all data can be re-constructed from parity...
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    What product to use?

    your keeping your shared files inside the vmdk?
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    8GB DDR3 Unbuffered ECC UDIMMs

    well they all passed 1 pass. seems theres an issue with the mobo reporting ecc to the software so i have to just trust that it's working
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    Recommendations for Media Server

    ESXi + OpenIndiana + Napp-It "All In One" setup is my favorite. can do zfs2 for 2disk failure, or 3
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    8GB DDR3 Unbuffered ECC UDIMMs

    I bought 4x of these.. should be here today. going to run memtest for 1 pass. mb = asus p8b ws
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    OpenSolaris derived ZFS NAS/ SAN (OmniOS, OpenIndiana, Solaris and napp-it)

    You dont have virtualization going?? Put logitecmediaserver on a windows machine---theres a lot less BS you have to put up with
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    Purchase or build NAS Raid 1 solution

    why get a raid controller.. just get a jbod hba and do zfs or some other software raid
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    Norco now or later?

    norco 4220, all in one, bought the 120mm fan metal replacement thing. its pretty quiet as far as servers go.
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    OpenSolaris derived ZFS NAS/ SAN (OmniOS, OpenIndiana, Solaris and napp-it)

    are you using open indiana to make permission changes via cli? theres a difference between the chmod in the path and the chmod that will do the job. probably others like 'ls' too. (note tank is the name of my pool) this will remove all non trivial acl's and basically reset everything...
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    OpenSolaris derived ZFS NAS/ SAN (OmniOS, OpenIndiana, Solaris and napp-it)

    are you using open indiana to make permission changes via cli? theres a difference between the chmod in the path and the chmod that will do the job. probably others like 'ls' too. "/usr/bin/chmod -R A- /tank" (note tank is the name of my pool) will remove all non trivial acl's and...
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    Switch recommendation for home lab - Layer 3 ideally.

    I have the The HP ProCurve 1810G-8G and 24G, both work good
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    ESXi Build Advice

    get the xeon with the built in hd intel graphics so you dont need a graphics card :D
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    ESXi Build Advice

    redundancy? Like if the nic dies at the hardware layer? that seems pretty rare. you'd think if a dual link nic died both ports would go down why would you want link aggregation? It doesn't seem beneficial in a small environment I can see it being good to have for flexibility and stuff if you...
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    ESXi Build Advice

    you dont need dual nic's do you?
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    Need help picking ESXi compatible HBA

    i have 3 lsi 9211-8i's and they work great with OI all in one.
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    OpenSolaris derived ZFS NAS/ SAN (OmniOS, OpenIndiana, Solaris and napp-it)

    Should I be worried about this? My soft errors have been growing slowly over time.
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    Which ssd should I get

    why is the m4 better when the pyro has much better read/write MB's
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    8GB DDR3 Unbuffered ECC UDIMMs

    Unbuffered or Registered? Why would this stupid site not include this vital piece of info
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    ESXi 5 odd network issue

    I had a problem before where my sickbeard instance was chewing up lots of hard drive bandwidth (some bug with the watch directory), and it was causing my uTorrent to report disk overloaded in the lower left hand side of uTorrent which killed my torrents.
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