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Looks like a slew of new 8TB WD products have hit the market or will hit the market in about a month. Shop High Capacity 8TB Hard Drives | Western Digital (WD) $299 MSRP which seems nice and exactly double the current normal price of the 4TB WD Red. Except these new disks are double the...

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/seagate-launches-8tb-archive-hdd-at-250-euro.html Looks like Seagate's SHR drives are here to actually be able to purchase soon.

Does anyone have experience understanding these messages that I get in my kernel log from time-to-time? mpt2sas0: log_info(0x31110d01): originator(PL), code(0x11), sub_code(0x0d01) It happens only under heavy write loads like when I dd /dev/zero to my zpool so all disks write at once as fast...

Does anyone have experience or know if the LSI 2308 controller on the Supermicro X10SL7-F is compatible with a SAS expander such as this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/CHENBRO-CK12803-28-Port-SAS-Expander-Controller-Card-SASX28-A-1-/151323494708?_trksid=p2054897.l4275 Via a reverse breakout...

Some nice improvements to ZFS it seems coming in Solaris 11.2. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/documentation/solaris11-2-whatsnew-2191087.pdf Data Management Progress Reporting with ZFS Send Streams You can include a progress report and estimated size of...

Do you think it matters whether I try to find one with a 2012 date sticker on it vs a 2010? Do you think the 2012 one would last longer because it's newer and likely used less? I'll be flashing it to pass-through mode anyways. Just curious about your thoughts.

Hey guys I finally decided to create a real backup of my ZFS array and I have opted for an offline backup for a few reasons. By offline I mean individual hard drives sitting in a drawer. It's "cheap". They will be powered off nearly all the time so they will last longer. I will keep them at...

This is loosely related to Data Storage, but I don't think ill get a better answer in any other sub-forums. I'm looking for a good way to regularly back up my Linux server's OS disk. The primary intention is to have a backup of it in case the disk dies so that I can get a replacement drive...

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7588/avago-to-acquire-lsi Pretty big news for the storage crowd. Just though I'd post it up in case anyone hasn't heard yet. No real details about it yet though.

So I seem to have a HDD failing but have a couple questions about it. Here is the SMART log of the dying drive: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 083 083 006 Pre-fail Always -...

http://www.techspot.com/news/54701-western-digital-hoping-for-5x-larger-hard-drives-with-hamr.html And Seagate says 60TB by 2016. Personally I'm a bit skeptical but I would certainly love more storage space :) I would certainly be worried about the URE rates and throughput speeds. I wouldn't...

Hey guys. So I finished migrating to my new ZFS machine a few days ago and I was thinking about how to maximize my SATA performance with where I plug in my disks. So I am using this board: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C220/X10SL7-F.cfm Which has a total of 14 SATA...

Hey guys, I just finished setting up my new ZFS pool recently and have a question about the best course of action I should take. Here is my pool output. root@nick-server:~# zpool status pool: nickarray state: DEGRADED status: One or more devices could not be used because the label is...

I'm about to create a ZFS server and apparently in this day and age with multi-TB disks you need to use ashift=12 to properly support modern 4K drives. I have been reading that some people have problems with wasted space with ashift=12. First off, I will always follow the power of 2 rule. I...

Hey guys, so I’ve decided to re-work my home media server and want to move to ZFS. I’ve been reading up on it and I’m trying to figure out the best way to set up my server to do what I want. I’m just a bit overwhelmed with all the ways in which to run ZFS and I’m...

http://forum.flexraid.com/index.php/topic,2319.0.html Been waiting for this and really interested in trying this one out and migrating my RAID-F FlexRAID arary to it in the future possibly. Here is an older comparison about the differences between FlexRAID RAID-F which a lot of you are...

Has anyone ever run into this problem or has anyone found a way to mitigate it? Let me set up the a scenario. A file server with Windows 2008 R2 and several hard drives. All the drives are 5400RPM 2TB drives and formatted standard NTFS. Copying files between the drives on the...

Has anyone ever run into this problem or has anyone found a way to mitigate it? Let me set up the a scenario. A file server with Windows 2008 R2 and several hard drives. All the drives are 5400RPM 2TB drives and formatted standard NTFS. Copying files between the drives on the...

So I got to play some BF3 Beta last night and thought I would share with you the epic gameplay I recorded for everyone. This is gameplay from Caspian Border, so I know all of you want to see what the real game is going to be like and not just OP Metro. Enjoy...

http://people.msoe.edu/~oldroydn/bf3_gamescom_caspianborder_pegi_1080p60_20mbps.mov Enjoy!

I saw a few other people posting their theaters and lots of nice discussions so I figured I would post mine and maybe it would help some people see what can be done in an apartment. Here is an overview of the main system to get some scale. The screen itself is custom made by me. Corner to...

I'm looking for recommendations for the best $100 passive bookshelves speakers for near-field listening. These are going to be used on my (large) computer desk at a listening distance of about 2-3 feet. I will be using them with a subwoofer as well. Her is what I have found so far...

The OCZ Vertex 2 Conspiracy: Lost Space, Lost Speed? Apparently the new 25nm OCZ Vertex 2 drives that have replaced the 34nm using the same SKUs have some problems that users should know about. Some bullet points from the article are that they have less capacity (so they are incompatible...