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Following up on that, it seems that a firmware update really did the trick. Initialization progress passed 20%, and the drives are still permanently busy.

We will find out :D I just did take the plunge and updated to P20, the latest firmware version that I know of. First thing to notice was that the controller reassigned my slot numbers: instead of 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 it's now 3,2,1,0,7,6,5,4. I'm sure it was well-intentioned. I'll have to wait...

Thank you for that find. However, the document's headline ("Report for IT SAS Gen 2.5 Controllers") suggests that it refers to the IT (i.e. non-RAID) versions of the listed controllers. I suspect the difference might be crucial. My drives' brand/model is ST8000NE0004 (Seagate IronWolf Pro)...

Hi, I need some advice for updating my computer. I've been using a Supermicro X10SAE "Workstation" (Xeon E3 with 32GB ECC RAM) under Windows 7 for several years now, with an LSI 9211-8i (IR) card as a RAID controller. This has worked brilliantly, until I decided to replace my 1TB hard disks...

Why not buying the Lenovo P70 right there?: Do you know of any reasons to avoid, specifically, that company? It's most certainly the easiest way to get exactly what you want. Except if you want a portable computer ;)

Some news: (1), the specs for the mobile Xeons are on Intel's website, and indeed it appears to be a souped-up consumer CPU with 4 cores max and 2 memory channels. (2), techradar's claim about the battery being non-replaceable might be untrue. The latter would be very good news IMHO. To me...

At this time, I don't know more than what you can read in the article I linked. But: So, a screwdriver is not the solution to everything. Also, usually I run my laptop via mains/PSU, which is said to be poison for the battery of you don't remove it beforehand (due to inevitable, miniscule...

It isn't, not for the one who buys yours. Intel's warranty covers only the original buyer, or, in France, l'acheteur original. Depending on the amount of RAM included in the kit, that might just work :) If you feel you can reasonably expect that upgrading to Skylake/DDR4 would improve your...

It seems that lenovo decided to make the battery non-replaceable :rolleyes: Seems like I won't buy a P70 after all, then :( It is really beyond me how Apple managed to infect a whole industry with utterly moronic design decisions :mad: :mad: :mad:

Why, it's true ... for some values of "ultimate" :D Seriously, I couldn't care less about the CPU's brand name, as long as it supports ECC RAM. Therefore, I would have liked a Core i7-3612QE in a laptop just as well, only nobody ever offered such a thing AFAIK. One nice thing about Xeons...

Lenovo announced on August 10 the release of "mobile workstation" laptops with up to 64 GB ECC memory, optional RAID1 and self-calibrating 4K monitor. Quite the dream machine for photoshop users! AFAIC the ECC memory alone is very welcome news, I've waited years for such a product. At last!

Very Good :D Not sure about this particular CPU, but in any case, you wouldn't have gotten 2 x16 slots with a Xeon E3, so an E5 was pretty much the only option here :)

The fan spins up when its RPM fall below a defined limit, and you can set this limit with a supplied software tool called "SuperDoctor".

The fan spins up when its RPM fall below a defined limit, and you can set this limit with a supplied software tool called "SuperDoctor". I don't think anyone sees a case for BIOS "correction". If you plan on buying from Newegg, you probably want to read this here thread "Newegg RMA...

This is because there's no graphics chip on board. If you want to forego a discrete graphics card, you'll need a Xeon with integrated graphics. You can see here which have graphics and which don't. Not like the Supermicro -F boards. It does have something called Intel Active Management...

Why, thank you for taking the time to explain. Maybe that VISA thing was kinda lucky. I don't know what else you tried apart from the things you said, but unless there's more, I'm fairly certain that the spontaneous reboots come from the watchdog timer. The watchdog timer should reboot the...

skinflint.co.uk seems to cooperate with a largish number of online retailers, which makes them quite useful, most of the time, to find out what you can order at all. It seems to me that you would have to order this particular board from Germany. Not great, but probably still better than...

Meanwhile, Supermicro offers that same board, in a combo deal of sorts, pre-installed in a matching case with your choice of blue, orange, or purple LED lighting. You can get this "gaming" case without mobo as well. I don't really know what to say :confused: :eek: :rolleyes:

Wow! I never heard of that! Learn something new every day :D One qestion though, just to make sure I understand correctly: That Xeon E5-1660 of yours doesn't happen to be an Engineering Sample, perhaps? It is a regular CPU bought through official retail channels, yes?

Frankly, I don't think so. Look here, we're talking about 3.9GHz vs. 3.6GHz, a difference of less than 10%. This is not "much" in my book. On the other hand, we have 25% more cores in the E5-2680V2, which more than evens it out. Ideally, you can estimate CPU performance by multiplying...

I don't get it. Why exactly is this CPU interesting? I mean, sure, the first 8 core Intel CPU for single socket systems, but 10 and 12 core E5-2600V2 CPUs do work in single socket systems too, yes? And I don' see any significant price advantage for the E5-1680V2 compared to those. In...

Congrats :) The pics are interesting. They upped the cable count from 2 to 6 (woo-hoo), but still no drivers in the package. I truly wonder why they can't put the DVD in there. For customers without high speed internet, ftp'ing its three gigabyte .iso file must be a pain in the back.

Supermicro is waiting for the C2 stepping to ship. While Intel is waiting for everyone else to say: "Thank you, we have enough chips for the next three production runs, you may serve your pariah customers now." </joke>

Probably yes :) Point in case: American people have a life expectancy of 78.62 years, or 689,183 hours. Their MTBF is 119.19 years, or 1,044,815 hours, estimated from their Annualized Failure Rate published in the CIA World Factbook. MTBF does not mean "life expectancy," so the verdict...

I understand that MTBF figures are just another way to express failure rates, so I would think: For some drive models WD does publish numbers that are logically equivalent to what you demand. However, WD indeed doesn't specify MTBF figures for their "Green" series, and it's probably an easy...

Why would you consider previous-generation motherboards (Asrock, MSI), let alone an Asus motherboard from several socket generations ago?

Yes, but I think the OP didn't do that. I understand that JohnnyCowboy (apt name nonetheless) didn't connect the fan to the OPT_TEMP1 connector, but merely its LED: The result may be the same though.

Sorry: No, I don't.

The manual for Supermicro's X10SAT is finally online. According to my local dealer (in Germany), they will start shipping boards on 30 September. From the manual: Two SATA cables instead of six, and not even the driver DVD in the "retail box". That's what I call "cutting corners with a...

Ouch. This is pretty galling, considering that Kingston claims it's compatible with the X10SAE. I bought RAM that's on Supermicro's Tested Memory List, i.e. DDR3-1600 from Samsung, part # M391B1G73BH0-CK0 (Supermicro part # MEM-DR380L-SL01-EU16).

Hi Polymorphic, thanks for the heads up. One thing came to my mind though: You said you tested the drives on every SATA port with every available SATA cable. You didn't say you tested the drives on every PSU connection. There still could be something funky with the power supply that...

Hi, that went fast :) 1., does the board have the latest BIOS from Asus, i.e. version 1103? 2., can you borrow a different drive from a friend? 3., (pro domo :)) I understand that everything else works to your satisfaction, especially the S3 sleep?

It has one saving grace though: It's specified to work at 60°C for prolonged periods of time. This might be interesting for people who are allergic to noise, and thus want a board that needs little cooling.

Oh? You mean, you didn't even pull the plug? I did basically what you quoted, except I downloaded the BIOS from their website, so it was a single-pass update. I'm beginning to wonder whether it was wrong to stick to the documented procedure of pulling the plug and clearing CMOS before...

I just bricked the board by doing so, it gives six long beeps, and then it does nothing. I gather that your update worked. How exactly did you do that? In particular, what did you do after the update program finished OK and told you to restart?

Not really. This is a board with a backplate for heatsinks with spring-loaded screws, not pushpins. I wouldn't call that design "proprietary," because everyone seems to use it, be that Supermicro, Tyan, Intel, or Asus. You can verify this on Newegg: Look at their product photos of 1366 server...

TBH I have never bothered with sleep states. I can manually put the computer to "sleep", but that doesn't lower its energy consumption in comparison to idle, it just stays at 34 W. How do you even trigger the different sleep states, so that I may try to reproduce the problem? *** edit...

Looking at the Asus P9D WS specs, it makes me wonder why brutalizer doesn't go for that. Its PCIe 2.0 x16 (x4 mode) slot seems very much like what he would want for his SAS controller. There's the DFI DL631-C226 missing, for some values of "missing".

That's nice to hear :) Supermicro Support has become a very mixed bag. I remember times when you'd get an answer within 15 minutes of writing, from a person who really knew what he was talking about. These times are long gone, and I've had wrong answers from their Support staff as well...

I doubt that the M1015 really needs a 8x PCIe 2.0 slot, because I have its (nearly) identical twin LSI 9211-8i running in a 4x PCIe 2.0 slot without problems. I'm not sure about 1x slots though.