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Hey guys, I have a Macbook pro 2007 that i've swapped the harddrive for a SSD (C4 M4 from crucial) I cloned to a new SSD the C4, swapped it out of my desktop and put it in the MBP. The MBP sees the drive, but when I'm trying to create a bootable USB with either Yosemite or El Capitan, the MBP...

Hey guys, I have a OCZ Vertex 3 MAX IOPS SSD that i'm trying to update from firmware 2.11 to 2.2X (2.25 seems to be the latest) However, since OCZ got bought by Toshiba, we're left on our own... Anyone has an ISO with the firmware embed that I could use to update this drive? otherwise, it's...

Hey guys, Anyone here using this for their mail server? How is it? Any problems? What about SSL/TLS? Thanks!

Hey guys, I purchased an Ergotron 45-245-026 LX Dual Monitor Arm, Side-by-Side for my future desk as I wanted to mount my monitors onto arms. I eventually found a nice desk, but the desk is 5" thick and the mount supports up to 2.6" (or 3.3" with a hack) in thickness. What do you guys...

Hey guys, So this is always my main concern with choosing a motherboard. A friend of mine asked me to put together a computer for him. His needs: Basically music rendering and creation. NO GAMING. I'm looking for a board with USB3, and SATA 6gb ports. I don't need all the fancy pants wifi...

Hey guys, I need a DOS bootable ISO that I need to add files to. What would be the correct method so that the ISO is still bootable upon adding the files? and where can I get a bootable DOS prompt bootable ISO? Thank you!

Hello, n00b question here. I'm using ESXi 5U1, and since I need pass from a raid 1 to a raid 5, I need to back up, clear the raid and recreate it. Now I cloned the RAID to another hard disk, but obviously it won't run because the drivers installed are for the raid. So I want to backup my...

Hey guys, I'm trying to clone my RAID 1 ESXi 5 install from my perc 6/i (1TB) to a 3TB HD. The reason being I added 2 more drives to my raid, and I'd like to backup the system as is and restore it once the RAID 5 has been created and is functional. I have connected the 3TB to the...

Hey guys, So I'm considering getting myself a NAS from Synology. I'm looking for a 4bay NAS but I'm a bit confused on the models and would like your input. What I will do with the NAS is mostly backup and streaming and potentially have some VM's on it that will go on VMWare. To start...

Hey guys, So I realized probably like some of you guys, that 1 SSD of 120gb for an OS drive is too small... Now I want to double that. I'm considering going 2 X 120gb SSD RAID 0. Is this too dangerous or should I just buy 1 X 240gb SSD drive?

Hi guys, I recently bought a PERC 6/i off of eBay not long ago, with the BBU. Everything works great. I currently have 2 drives in there. I would want to perhaps add 2 more. The setup is currently a RAID 0 and the computer is running VMWare ESXi 5. How can I migrate to a RAID 5...

What's up guys?! So I'm looking at getting a Synology DS411+II (it is on special now). But you can't just get an empty NAS right? You need to get HD's with it. So I was planning on getting some 3TB Hitachi's. I was wondering since the prices are high, if I should wait maybe more until...

Hi guys, So I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 server in my SOHO lan, and I configured PPTP. I also have a modem/router from my ISP (2wire) that I configured to forward PPTP (1723) to the server. I can connect to the VPN fine, it authenticates, but when I ping computers local to the network...

Hey guys, as some know I'm a Supermicro X9SCM-F owner here. I setup my RAID as RAID 1 in my PERC and initialized everything. I cannot see the raid from my PERC 6/i in my ESXi 5.0.0 installer. Am I missing a driver in the VMWare iso or something? How is it possible to see the RAID in ESXi? I...

Hi Guys, So I'm basically for an input here. I'm planning on eventually getting a 4-BAY NAS (brand TBD, but probably a Synology or a QNAP) This will be for a SOHO use. Now for the HD, I was planning on going 2TB. I know it wouldn't be write/read intensive and the most I'd be doing is...

Hey guys, So I understand that when you move from HDD to SSD, you need to realign your SSD partition. Now if I want to move from SSD to SSD, can a program such as norton ghost still be used to clone the primary SSD to the new SSD?* * the new SSD is bigger than the current. If not, what are...

Hey guys, So I recently purchased a raid controller that has 4 SFF-8484 connector. I need SAS->SATA cables so I was wondering if I should buy them off eBay (from china) or if I should go with a more known company (the only one i found that was "affordable" was tripp-lite) Is buying a...

Since a lot of people are building rigs for home labs/white boxes with this motherboard, it would be interesting to have a thread with all the useful info and what works or what does not so that we can limit our search and playing around. Supermicro X9SCM-F Product site: Link Manual: Link...

Hey guys, So I'm in a need of a Raid Card for my box to have Raid in my box (the onboard raid is unfortunately not recognized by vmware). Which affordable RAID card would you recommend me? One that is compatible with VMWare of course. I don't want to pay more than 250$ (I don't mind used)...

Hey guys, First of, I'd like to wish everyone of you a Happy New Year. All the best, health first! I just finished building myself a development server with the following hardware: Supermicro X9SCM-F board Xeon E3 1230 16gb 1333Mhz DDR3 ECC UDIMM 2 X 1TB I set up the RAID in the bios, but...