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I grabbed it from eBay, there are a few sellers with roamers listed. The one i bought (http://www.ebay.com/itm/360684080764) had cables included but they were intended to interface with a normal motherboard so i'll have to build myself some custom cables... when i can figure out the RS232 pinout...

SO, i finally ripped mine open and stuck a RoamerIP LOM board in there. It's not quite plug and play but i got it working. The Roamer allows remote power on/off, restart and serial terminal access, but best of all it will handle automatic power-on after power failure with an adjustable delay...

Apologies to all on practicing my necromancy on this thread, but i think the information may be useful to someone who may stumble upon this page. The connector on this board will FIT a motherboard power connector (i believe it is keyed the same as a 12v auxiliary connector) but the pinout is...

I'm with Jorona, it's one of those "I know better, but just haven't gotten around to it" type of things.

The SAS 5/E should be an LSI 1068 (PCIx) with a PCIx to PCIe bridge chip on board. These come with an outdated IR firmware from dell and i don't recall if the IT firmware was ever made available from them; so passing disks through can be cumbersome. My initial attempts to cross-flash an LSI...

Try breaking the array and test throughput to individual drives, see what you get that way to start with.

I'm guilty of acquiring much of my hardware from eBay. Lurk long enough and you find some good deals. The SAS6 is often (as in almost always) falsely listed as PERC6, the part number is ucs-61 better to search that way. There are many 1068e cards, I just happen to have the Dell ones.

Even without AHCI you should see a marked improvement by switching to an SSD. Just in my case I'm using a very old unit with suspicious garbage collection capabilities. All the old tweaks and tricks for SSDs which are no longer as important, such as manual over provisioning, were devised...

If you don't intend to go beyond 2TB per disk in the near term, 1068e based cards are DIRT cheap right now. You likely could get hold of a Dell SAS6 for less than 30 dollars, maybe less than 20 if you scrounge about sufficiently. That should cover you on the hardware front for a while.

As stated before, any SAS2008 or newer chipset based card. there are many: http://www.servethehome.com/lsi-sas-2008-raid-controller-hba-information/ When last i looked the PERC H310 was cheapest option.

My current workstation uses an NF4 variant. I didn't have any difficulties installing or booting from an old SATAII samsung SSD (a Dell OEM, nightmare to find firmware) BUT the NF4 does not support AHCI so no TRIM or any of those other fancy features. I did exactly as you were thinking and...

1068e based HBA's will only address up to 2TB per drive, you would need an SAS2008 or newer based card in order to take advantage of larger disks. Also keep in mind that some users have reported issues with use of SATA disks through an SAS expander. I have not run into this issue myself, but...

I want to say that was the design idea behind GlusterFS, but i haven't looked at the project in a long time as it didn't meet the requirements of the system we were implementing at work at the time. You might try taking a look at gluster.org

The best way to look at ReFS is as a rework or extension to NTFS. The Simple/Mirror/Parity configuration all happens at the Storage Spaces Level as GMcDonnell has stated. Define a "Pool" of disks, HotSpares (if used) are configured at this level if i recall correctly. Provision a Virtual Disk...

EDIT: DERP, sorry, necro'd the thread accidentally, please delete if you can

I may be incorrect, but i believe there is more than one revision of this enclosure in the wild. While the expander board appears to be similar enough, the other control circuitry may differ. EDIT: turns out i probably AM wrong :P i've been meaning to tear this critter apart and mess around...

Thanks for the clarification on that omni, i haven't had the means (or necessity) to purchase a new drive in quite some time and have just been playing around with an old stack of them. I had no first hand experience with 4K disks and wasn't aware that all of them had the emulation mode.

Unless I am mistaken ashift=9 denotes a 512 byte block (2^9) while ashift=12 denotes a 4k block size (2^12). Your ashift setting should (must?) be the same as or greater than the block size defined by your hardware, effectively disk architecture. If you are using disks with 512-byte blocks...

While i said performance when i made my first post, it was really just to mask my compulsiveness at needing things to align properly as I stated in another thread :]

Yes, resilver on a 19 disk raidz-3 would probably be terrible :] but with a hotspare in place you may not even notice anything has happened depending on the device's workload. I'm somewhat compulsive about everything lining up properly, not necessarily because of the ideal performance, it just...

check here, especially answer number one as it seemed to work for that guy: http://serverfault.com/questions/285402/smart-array-p410-raid-controller-fails-creating-logical-disk-with-2x1tb-wd-drive the linked disk image may help you out, may not. I have a very old smartarray card, first SAS...

Remember that for ideal performance you want your data disks (N) to be in powers of two, so N+1 for raidz, N+2 for raidz-2 and N+3 for raidz-3 Consider as well a 6x4TB raidz-2, that would equate to four data disks and two parity with a raw total of 16TB storage before formatting, overhead, and...

You really shouldn't see too much of a difference with putting your OS on an SSD for the storage server since ideally you should not need to boot up very often, the idea is to do it for longevity purposes or if you end up adding some extra services to the box. In my case i grabbed a couple of...

I am using a supermicro h8smi-2 (Rev2 allows up to quad-core am3 processors) with 8GB un-buffered ECC RAM and an Athlon II X4 620e. Keep in mind that on AMD processors even the memory controller on the desktop lines have ECC support, it's just the motherboard manufacturers rarely use it; the...

As long as you are not looking to implement a full fail-over setup you should be able to pull off a backup solution fairly easily for that configuration. The hardware portion should be easy, offline/nearline storage does not require even remotely as much power or speed as your workhorse...

If you really wanted the 16 bays filled and don't mind a few in the main chassis or slow rebuild times you could try 16+3+HSp, 19 disk raidz-3 plus a hostpare, makes a nice even 4 disks in the main chassis and requires no intervention in the case of a single drive failure. I guess that would be...

You probably don't want to touch it. But having been consultant/liaison on some of these types of issues (do NOT read that as HIPAA compliance officer or expert) I would second exactly what J-Will said. In your situation I would first see how much the IT dept wants to lease secure storage...

You are not alone, i have been kicking myself all day for the same reason. Though i waited hoping a deal was forthcoming for one without a window.

Personally, i would get the 40GB SSD (because it is cheap, and should be quick and durable) for the OS and initial storage; then add USB storage as needed. USB flash drives are dirt cheap as you mentioned, but go with the SSD for the OS.

Very strange, i stand corrected. you may want to try and manually configure the array from the powershell, it will give you a bit more control.

From my understanding the system will automatically configure the pool (when using parity mode) to the best fit of (2^n)+1 drives. in your case the best fit would be (2^2)+1 = 5 drives. If you were to remove one drive from the pool, or manually designate that drive as a hot spare, the remaining...

If i may throw my hat into the ring here, i would keep the same enclosure and upgrade the internals. Workstation/Low-end-server grade components are not as expensive as you might think, and your media server need not be built with cutting edge equipment to leverage some of those benefits (such...

Keeping in mind that i do not have an areca controller available (i am not familiar with their update tools), have you tried re-flashing with the firmware intended for the card itself from: ftp://ftp.areca.com.tw/RaidCards/BIOS_Firmware/ARC1680/150-20120120/ It is possible that the entire card...

Sorry man, you've got me on that one, i don't have anything with the same expander installed or i would try and find a way to dump the flash image for you. Maybe some kind soul here would be kind enough to do that and provide you with the image, or would have some info on what expander chip is...

i cannot access the link you posted, at least from my office. You could try flashing it over again with the firmware from their main page at http://www.areca.us/support/download/RaidCards/BIOS_Firmware/ARC1680.zip see what happens, let us know (it's probably the same file, but couldn't hurt)

The card should still be salvageable, interestingly enough just last night i managed to resurrect an LSI HBA that i had sort of bricked with a bad firmware update previously (i got the FW updated but had nuked the bios accidentally). Kind of a long shot but did you manage to dump a backup image...

You could always purchase an am3 (not am3+) processor second hand (cheaply), one which should by all rights work, install it and cross your fingers. If the system works you are finished, if not, then look into another motherboard. If necessary you could always stick with a good quality am2+...

You should be able to source previous gen equipment with similar specs to your new equipment and ECC support for roughly the same price you are looking to spend for the new board you are looking at. I just assembled a machine for myself with a low power quad core am2 processor on a supermicro...

I have used storage spaces in Server 2012, not too difficult to set up and i have had no complaints so far. It has it's drawbacks though. MS' ReFS can be used on any virtual disk but its most useful features are limited to RAID1 or RAID10-like virtual disks. Additionally, ReFS does not...

If you did in fact get the SAS6i, it would be a PCI-express x8 interface on the card. The card will physically fit, and should function, in an x8 or x16 slot. If you modify the card, or modify the socket on the motherboard, you should be able to get the card working in whatever PCI-express...