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I just read online that ESXi free version only supports up to 32GB of ram... so maybe you aren't so bad off in that scenario. The ECC part yes I am going that route off the bat.

I plan to run an internal datastore drive using mirrored SSD since I only plan to run a Linux VM (mounting ZFS storage), a Windows VM, and a few smaller VMs to play with as I need them. I was shooting for 16GB of ram out of the gate in the FreeNAS VM but plan to put in 32GB with room for 32GB...

My layout is 20xST32000641AS in a raid6 configuration with the drive presented to linux and LVM from there with a simple EXT4 filesystem for each breakout. Here are the commands below for reference: (05-08-2013 02:08 PM)-> dd if=/dev/zero of=bench_file bs=2048k count=50k 51200+0 records in...

I am considering moving away from a Raid Card to a ZFS based system for more flexibility. What kind of read/write performance at the local disk level and at the CIFS level? I am experiencing the current speeds locally: 1000000+0 records in 1000000+0 records out 8192000000 bytes (8.2 GB)...

I wonder how this would fit on a ITX board... I have a A75M-ITX and had a nice cooler but had to remove it and replace it with STOCK since it required me to remove the motherboard over and over to remove the cooler to access the ram sticks. I like the fact this one doesn't go over the sticks of...

I used to be an owner of the older A-110 and bought mine originally for the fact it could BitStream HD audio. Beginning of this year I gave up the PCH option and opt'ed for a custom HTPC for each room in the home. I loved my PCH in the beginning but the SLOW network really upset me to the...

I own a HDHomeRun Prime 3CC which is 3 Tuners on a single Cable Card. The unit itself is nice and compact with little fuss. However things will vary depending on what kind of setup you will be using it with... For example if you are PURELY using the device on Windows Media Center then you have...

FYI XBMC Live on the AMD APU isn't recommended.... Best bet is to use windows and then XBMC (windows version). There is some issues with sound/drivers currently floating around and someone who isn't well versed in Linux would have a hard time.

I ordered the 120MM plate along with my RPC-4220. The plate arrived yesterday and so did my 3 Gentle Typhoon AP15s. The RPC-4220 arrives today so looking forward to it. I did notice the 120MM plate does move the cable holes slightly to the right versus the center as in the default model.

so I just pulled the trigger on a RPC-4220 from Newegg, I have an Areca 1880ix-16 and was wondering if anyone knows if the SFF-8087 cables that come with the card will reach the backplanes in the RPC-4220? If not could someone recommend a MINIMAL size to get such as .5 Meters?

How can you determine if you are buying a new style from a vendor? Are there a list of vendors whom sell the new style?

Has anyone tested the Norco 4220 recently with SATA III / 6gbs drives? I am looking to replace my weird setup with a new device.

The case is a 800d and the lower section with the white fan is a place for MANUAL hard drives to be placed. I used this location to store my 655 pump, the white fan is used to cool the 655 in general and then comes back out. This gives more appeal to the case so the pump isn't seen nor heard :)...

Here is my first watercooling build:

BTW Chiefvalue is a sister company of Newegg. I got mine from them about a week ago and can vouch for their service.

Thats what I thought, just wanted to see if anyone had done or confirmed this. I'd figure the new space won't be visible until all the drives align in space.

Question: Now that the 3TB drives are making it to the market in mass quantity what is the upgrade path to the current users of 1TB-2TB drives who are hurting on space? Is it possible to replace an existing drive on the Areca controllers with a larger size drive and as the entire cluster of...

I thought 2x16 vs 2x8 didn't really offer any REAL world increases maybe a few FPS if that. Right?

Has anyone placed an fan on the 1880IX series cards? I noticed there is a small place for a fan to connect and it would be ideal to help cool the processor. Anyone have any recommendations for a fan?

Anyone else notice a new feature/bug with the latest software/firmware on the 1880? I have scheduled raid checks in place on my Raid6 array however now I noticed every time I reboot the system it performs a system check upon boot. Thoughts?

Apparently the 6GB SATA backplane is shipping on new 800D's. Apparently a lucky soul just got one from Newegg http://i.imgur.com/RGSaP.jpg According to the rep's this should be around a $20 item but still don't see it on their boards. Sad I spent so much on a case less than 2 weeks ago and...

Right now the largest we have is at 45TB, that is coming from a SAN volume and formatted using the typical mkfs.ext4 options used.

If the SATA backplane is really just a pass through how would it imped 3GB vs 6GB communication. The ports are backwards compatible unless there is some sort of chip on the backplane that is only rated for SATA 3GB. Has anyone actually tested a 6GB drive in the backplane to see if it negotiates...

I am using EXT4 on all the filesystems. We've been using it at work on a few LARGE scale systems that house oracle databases and large scale file storage without issues. We have a few past 16TB but most of them are broken out into smaller file systems. My system is all contained in LVM so I can...

IHmmm I think it is the Disk Enclosure it is contained in, removing the hotspare does not change the LED. However in the same enclosure I have two WD 1GB Black 6GB drives and they are working properly LED wise. The drive itself is not impacted just a weird scenario... Any thoughts? I am...

Quick question... I recently declared a LOCAL hot spare for one of my raid 6 arrays. I've noticed that the HDD activity light is almost always lit up. Any reason why?

Are you sure your raid5 is really hardware and not FAKERaid setup by windows? Do you have a raid card in the computer or using the on-board motherboard raid?

Total Storage: 36TB + 2TB + 64GB + 64GB Usable Storage: 30TB (Raid 6 + Hot SPARE) + 1TB (Raid 1 Home) + 64GB (Raid 1 (Linux MD Raid) OS Drive) Missing ONE Drive, waiting for RMA from Seagate! Case: Li Lian PC-A77F Motherboard: Asus M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1055T Memory...

I'd like to get some critique on the following resume: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/207349/resume-test.pdf Now looking for a job but just seeing what people think and where I could head further in my career.

This all depends on the priority to set on the raid controller. For me at medium it took around 20 hours on 11x2TB Seagate 6GB

I'd say if you are mixing different drives that report different sizes the 10G is your best bet. Granted you lose those little 1-2GB of disk space as it normalizes across all drives.

Just upgraded my 1880IX and a quick new features 1) I see is that it now shows the time it takes to initialize the controller on being powered up. 2) You can apparently adjust the levels of alerts for each email address setup for SMTP alerts.

1.49 is not on the site but can be found at ftp://ftp.areca.com.tw/RaidCards/BIOS_Firmware/ARC1880/149-20101210.zip for 1880s

We do it with about 10 people but it depends on your data. Don't forget with some cloud solutions you may lose the ability to grant/remove permissions so you will need an expensive enterprise solution :).

One thing to note is that in windows it does consume some CPU usage to perform higher network transfers, therefore since you are using the CPU for the RAID also it could be enough usage at 1080p to drive the CPU up enough to cause the stutter over the network.

I personally do this with my side business using Amazon Storage, it is cheap and you pay per GB stored. There are various clients out there that mount the Amazon storage as a regular drive share in Windows/Mac and then users can work like normal.

I have a pair of these running in Linux Raid1 for my file server and they are decent cheap drives. Based on the 1222 controller from Sandforce.

I personally love mine! I have an A-110 and since it bitstreams the HD Codecs (TrueHD and DTS-MA) it does a good job of playing almost anything possible. The only complaint I have is that storing media on the device TAKES forever but when you stream the media it is good. I personally stream...

Should have gotten a PopCorn Hour :)

Have you attempted to remove the network teaming aspect and try again? Are you ABLE to sustain a LARGE file transfer via FTP to rule out the other protocol?