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Cincinnati Bell Fioptics is getting installed next week, and I'm going to get their 1000 Mbps by 250 Mbps connection using fiber to the home. This will be a major improvement to my 8/3 WISP PPPOE connection that I'm getting fed up with because my internet is controlled by my county's fiscal...

In this thread, I'll be asking for some advice on building a surveillance server, cameras, and a pair of switches. I already got advice on fiber to connect two buildings, here. The goal is to connect fiber between two buildings, a house, and a garage that's 500 ft. away. The server, 16-24 port...

Some info before we start: Windows 2012R2 IBM M5015 HBA 10x 4TB HGST NAS HDDs I recently added 4x 4TB drives to my existing R5 array with 6x 4TB drives. This brought the array to, you guessed it, 10x drives at 32.7TB, formatted. The process took a week, as I didn't want to scrub the data and...

First off, some info: My parents have moved onto a new property, where they build a pole barn garage, and are now building a house. My dad and I are planning on installing at least 6 exterior cameras on the house, and 4 on/in the garage (surveillance server in the house), with WiFi in both...

...that work with SuperMicro cases, you might want to check out APC AR8129's. I was able to pick up a pair for $20 each on ebay, new in box. I've been looking everywhere for cable management arms that weren't $100 or more, which is just a crazy price for such a thing, but stumbled upon these...

I rigged a fan to force air onto the heatsink of my IBM M5015 (below), but I'd like to find a better way (the proper way) to cool the card. How do you cool your RAID/HBA controllers? What would be the best method of cooling my M5015?

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc This will be my primary NAS server (36+ TB) as well as my virtual host. I plan on running 3-4 VMs with this. 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? $800 + the cost of the storage HDDs 3) Which...

Greetings, all. I've been a long-time lurker, and finally joined the forum in search of some answers. I recently bought a Supermicro SC846E16-R1200B 24-bay chassis (refurbished on eBay) to upgrade my home NAS, but have some questions. I have an IBM M5015 (flashed with LSI firmware) that I'll...