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I'd go HP 1410-24G too. If anything ever goes wrong with it you'll be happy because their warranty is awesome.

What colour are the backplanes? Can you try to check the connectors are aligned properly?

If they're still in warranty I RMA them. If they're not it depends on the state of the drive: No smart errors - backups or externals to transfer through the sneaker-net. Smart errors but seem to be working - sneaker-net drives. Not working well. Put them in a drawer, sometimes stuff from there...

I've read around a lot and seen lots of people using red drives without issue. So I'm planning to use them in my build (20 drives) as well. Other than them I'd be looking at Seagate NAS drives or going up to the enterprise drives. Previously I would have gone for Hitachi or Samsung, but...

Somewhat interested as I probably want to upgrade to a switch that can do inter-VLAN routing at some point. I'd prefer an internal power supply though, and I'd also like to know the routing throughput.

ECC doesn't cost as much more as everyone seems to expect. Maybe $30 more all up, assuming you weren't going for a budget motherboard originally. Though it is hard to find Mini-ITX boards that support ECC, there's only a few of them. If you want data integrity you really should go with ECC...

In terms of space, the racks can (and normally would) sit directly side by side each other, the front and back space would be what you have to consider. That would be a minimum of 'enough space to open the door' at the back and enough space for the depth of your deepest server at the front...

Yeah Crucial or Kingston should be good choices for the RAM. I'd also recommend checking up on that CPU and what the motherboard supports with it. That model CPU has the integrated GPU, but I'm not sure if it can be used for anything on that board.

There is a mod where people place electrical tape over the pins. IIRC this is to get around vendor lock-in though. Have you tried a different slot in the board, some desktop boards will only accept GPUs in the primary slot.

Well you're already looking at spending a lot since that's a gamer/enthusiast motherboard designed with overclocking in mind. So you might as well change to a real server motherboard designed with 24/7 operation in mind and get yourself ECC support and IPMI at the same time. The prices are very...

AFAIK you can only fit 2.5" drives above the drive cage though. So I'd likely use that space for an SSD or two if I made a build in one. The ASRock board and U-NAS chassis would make a nice backup NAS I think. I'd end up wanting to mod it a little with an LCD for status/IP information and LEDs...

If you're concerned about uptime, keep a spare controller handy. If you're concerned about data loss, you should already be backing it up. As described above it doesn't really offer any security for your data. For that you'd want to secure your premises and potentially look at encryption if...

FreeNAS isn't really a light OS... unless you skip ZFS and just use UFS anyway. I'd look around a bit to get an idea of what support will be like for that HBA though, generally LSI HBAs are recommended.

Yes the $600 was just inflated because they were the first selling it. AcmeMicro has the Avoton model for the same price http://www.acmemicro.com/Product/13080/Supermicro-MotherBoard-A1SAi-2750F-Intel-Atom-UP-C2750-8-Core-DDR3-SATA3-4xGbE-1xPCI-Mini-ITX-Retail-MBD-A1SAi-2750F-O?c_id=272 If...

I stopped reading at Z77 motherboard since that means you don't have ECC RAM. ZFS without ECC isn't really a good idea, if things go bad they can go really bad.

Thanks for the replies. I think I'll go for one of the HPs. Lifetime warranty and lower power usage wins it for me.

I'm planning to use them at home for the multiple SSID/VLAN support. I think I could probably get a router running DD-WRT or OpenWRT to do the same thing, but I don't know how reliable it is. Just in case you look at the AC model as well, it's been having issues with overheating. So I'd wait...

My needs are: Gigabit At least 12 ports VLAN I don't really need Layer 3, I can route between VLANs with my router if I end up needing to. Noise isn't a big problem, I'd be more concerned about power consumption. Connected devices will initially be: Router Server/NAS 2 Desktops...

I'm upgrading my home network and need a new switch. I've been looking around and found a few options that look good: New HP 1810g-24 v2 New HP V1910-24 Used Cisco 2960S 24TS-L Used Foundry/Brocade FESX448 I was liking the look of the Brocade for it's power and the potential of upgrading...

Yeah it definitely wouldn't be the most user friendly option. I should look into ripping bluray on FreeBSD, if that can be done then a FreeNAS plugin could be made to make things really simple. For my use I'm not too concerned about any data that leaves the filesystem - that will only happen if...

For example makemkv can rip bluray/dvd and is available for Linux - I'm not sure if it's compatible with Solaris or BSD though. That's one of the things I'll have to consider when deciding what OS to run my new NAS on.

Dammit... Changed tabs on my phone and lost what I'd just written... Start again. Anyway I read through again and it looks like the confusion was caused by brutalizer quoting the paragraph where you talked about data being copied from NTFS to ZFS. Without going back to your post to read the...

My current NAS cost me ~$300-350 + drives - Supermicro Atom motherboard, Seasonic PSU and an old Silverstone case I had spare. I'm in the process of building a replacement because I need more storage and processing power though: Supermicro X10-SL7-F motherboard Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3 CPU 4...

I'm not saying either of them actually have a problem - that's why I put "problem" in quotes. Just that neither of them will correct errors in files that are corrupted before being written to them. The only reason you're not seeing this in SnapRAID is that you're writing the files directly into...

No I'm really not confused, just trying to point out that you're comparing apples to oranges. The ZFS equivalent to ripping discs directly to SnapRAID would be ripping directly to ZFS. Then the SnapRAID checksum would not be created any earlier than the ZFS equivalent. I understand that...

Do it on the NAS instead of your computer - either through the web interface or shell depending what it has available.

Pretty much this. And there's nothing to stop you creating separate checksums for any data you copy outside ZFS, it would just be a manual process like you're currently doing. You could probably even run SnapRAID on top of ZFS to achieve this if you like the way it does it lol. Also, SnapRAID...

I understand the aversion to the Atom name above, but the Avoton chips are a whole different beast coming from collaboration with the Xeon team. If you're wanting low power consumption they'd be a great choice, and also have ECC support. Don't expect pricing to be like the previous Atom chips...

Was slightly confused for a second because they got to the right result at the end (128.8Kbps). Just used the wrong figure in the middle (161,000 bytes).

He's saying it could be a bit/byte confusion. It's hard to tell what units you're using through your post - if it's a 10 megabit per second (bandwidth is generally measured in bits per second) then you would expect a download speed around 1 megabyte per second.

I have the same Supermicro board. It's definitely 64bit. Uses a D510 and there's a slightly newer D525 model too.

I don't really see it as something I expect to happen though, more of a safety net.

Technological solution for a social problem... Not to say you can't do it, but it will always have drawbacks - false positives, easy workarounds, sites that don't get caught by the filter... I'd say she's better off talking to them, because they'd certainly notice after she did that anyway. It's...

I'm planning on going the pfSense route - I have an old Supermicro Atom board to run it on, just have to get a smaller case. With a managed switch and Ubiquiti UniFi for wifi.

Have you tried plugging your computer directly into the modem to test if the speed is better that way?

Unless you go with the Pro OR AC models which support 802.3af and 802.3at respectively. They are quite a bit more expensive though.

I was assuming the access points wouldn't support VLANs so I'd need separate devices and set the VLAN for their ports on the switch. I'll read up some more on UniFi though to see how I could do it with one.

I've been wanting to set up something similar too. I was already interested in the UniFi access points but was thinking I'd have to get two and put them on separate VLANs. If I can achieve the same with just one that's awesome.

Where are you seeing the Seagates that cheap or the WD Reds that expensive? For the OP, don't go for the k model CPU, you're paying extra to enable overclocking and disable VT-d, which isn't what you want for hosting VMs. It looks like you're making a gaming rig TBH. I'd recommend going...

I know a guy from another forum who uses the H310. He has flashed it to IT mode but said it wasn't as easy as with the M1015. So I'd assume it should be ok, you'll just be pretty much on your own working out how to flash it.