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looking for something to max out pcie4 with nvme drives for my new machine. Any card recommendations?

anyone recommend a good battery backed up pcie3.x card for nvme storage? I'm trying to use it on a home server rack s2d use case and need something battery backed up or persistent for it to use full caching modes.

anyone have experience trying to get this working? having some driver issues and could use some help. On the broadcom site that bought 3ware it says that w2012 r2 is support but I don't see 2016.

putting together a windows 2016 server tier'd SAN for homelab that will be accessed over 10GBE converged network. Buying a regular tower and putting these in SSD Cage https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817994224&ignorebbr=1 Boot 512gig SSDs (Raid 1) 2x...

I'm trying to find a server motherboard that has hardware raid supporting hardware SAS 12gbs and FDR infiniband. Since these are somewhat obscure specs, newegg isn't helping at all. Anyone recommend a board that can do these things? I know it will cost probably in the $1k range, but its what...

looking to throw together a cheap SAN that has maybe 6 to 10tb of space with perhaps 2tb of SSD on a tier'd storage level. Any recommendations on builds and storage to buy?

server 2016 doesn't recognize my lsi 9750 even though it sorta works (sorta not as it blue screens here and there). Anyone have success with any drivers for this or do I just need to buy a new card? Its on a server I got on ebay and hooked through SAS to 12 hot swap SATA bays.

I'm thinking about upgrading my home network to 10g so I can move the vm's and such around (I do a lot of programming for clients and have tons of vm's running). It looks like dlink has some pretty reasonable 10g switches that use cat6 ethernet cables. Any recommendations in this space?

Looking to buy one of these monitors, any recommendations or notes on either? Amazon.com: Samsung U28E590D 28-Inch UHD LED-Lit Monitor: Computers & Accessories vs Amazon.com: Acer B286HK ymjdpprz 28-inch UHD 4K2K (3840 x 2160) Widescreen Display with ErgoStand: Computers & Accessories looks...

I have a monitor that during a move I seem to have completely lost the power cord to. Anyone know how to figure out which power cable I should buy to fix it? Its the Dell S2440L (has a small b after that but online lookups dont show that). There is no power spec on the back that I can see and...

I got a user server off of ebay that has this backplane: SAS826EL1 2x SAS connectors Anyone recommend a hardware raid card I could use with this? The server has 12 3.5 slots which I plan to put 4 8tb sata drives in with raid 5 then 6 1tb ssd's in raid 1+0 and finally 2 512gb ssd's in raid 1...

trying to get my account back and doing the retrieve password against the email address I thought I had registered doesn't work. I've had the account forever and now I'm having to start a new one. Messaging support doesn't seem to help at all as I've gotten no response. help!

I've been trying to get 3 of my 28" samsung 4k monitors going at the same time and even though my current 4 year old video card has 3 outputs (dvi, hdmi and display port) it will only allow me to use 2 monitors at once. Is there another video card I should get that absolutely will allow 3...

building a dev rig with used dual 20 core e5 v4 135w xeons. This will be used with very heavy virtual machines (to simulate production environments) so it will get pushed almost nonstop 24/7. I've had a lot of success with closed loop water cooling on gaming rigs but have never tried it on a...

I'm building a SAN for our QA environment which will have some 100 or so virtual machines back ending to the system. I intend to use infiniband (although DDR or QDR to save $). I've googled around a bit and I haven't found very many build guides for this sort of thing. anyone have...

has anyone had any luck or experience adding an infiniband card to only do work against your SAN storage while also keeping IP networking going through ethernet? I need to move a lot of files around to and from a SAN device and among several machines but I don't want to have to deal with IP...

I'm helping a small but growing niche social networking site. As part of the site, users can store photos. Currently there are about 14tb of photos stored and last month 4tb were added. Considering we only have 26tb of storage total on a 2u with SATA drives (and no backups, weeee), we will...

throwing a party next week with a lot of technical and arty folks. I've seen other parties where they had some visualization demos going on a big screen. I've searched youtube in vain for these types of things and come up with nothing. What search term do I need? Can anyone point me at some...

I just got an elitepad 900 as a gift from hp at hp discover and I don't know that much about it yet. One thing that isn't clear to me is how I get this to hop onto at&t or verizon. Anyone know if these things come built in with that ability or do I need to buy some sort of addon?

I'm looking to buy a mid range home theater sound system to go with my new samsung 60: 720vt 3d tv. All of the 'home theater in a box' systems I see on like newegg don't specify if the subwoofer is powered (i want really solid clear bass). so its really two questions. What would anyone...

I'm thinking about buying this case http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133188 for a new build but noise is a problem for me if it gets too loud. Anyone out there have this case that can tell me what the noise level is? I plan to run an h100 cooler in it as well.

I'm building a fairly hard core rig with extreme edition i7. Plan to have ssd's that I swap out for various projects so it would be really nice if the case supported hot swap bays for ssds. Also, I plan to get an h100 watercooler, so the case needs to be compatible with that. Beyond that...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100008120%2050001455%20600038519%20600038463%20600038491&IsNodeId=1&name=Crucial All those are the crucial SSD 512gig models, but they all look the same. Anyone know what the difference is?

I'm getting ready to build a new rig and was wondering what the very latest proc and chipset were for intel. Is there a new proc version coming out soon or am I good buying it all now?

gigabit ethernet has been around for what seems forever and the sizes of files are getting way beyond what can easily be moved by this protocol. Has anyone managed to do a 10gig ethernet setup in a small business or home? What did you buy? What do you recommend?

I was going to buy a regular router for our growing small business and had some good suggestions here on that. But now we've found we need to start having a lot more ssl traffic. I am wondering what the best inexpensive ssl offload router is? including things I could buy used from ebay?

I got this slimline cd/dvd for my new 2u I am building. The only problem is that the sata power connector is not standard at all. It's small than s normal SATA power connector. Anyone know where the heck I find a cable to power this darn thing...

I thought I checked all the facts before I purchased but when I plug this ram in, the motherboard says no ram is present (5 short 1 long beep code supermicro) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182253 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820161561...

does anyone know if the norco cases front panel connector is the same as is used for supermicro motherboards? I'm thinking of buying the following combo and don't want to have front panel problems. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182253...

I have a 16 IP subnet from comcast (12 usable). All of them are available directly from the cable modem (but they don't route through one particular IP, they are just all available to me). I have a switch and 2 servers right now with 10 of the IP's mapped to the NIC cards of each variously...

doing a build for a new i7 and planning to use the h100 cooler. I have a LOT of drives, 2 gx 570 video cards, a couple expansion cards and a 1200w psu. Any suggestions on a very large case that will fit all this?

I'm looking to build out a virtual machine server that supports some caching servers which all require lots of ram. What's a good current board that supports at least 96gigs of ram that people would suggest? I'm thinking of going with a sand bridge single cpu xeon but am clueless on current...

I have a powerful home server w2k8r2 with a large/fast raid drive system and pretty much nothing for a video card. I am looking to stream my mp4 blu ray rip movies up to 2 tv's in the house over gigabit ethernet (cat 6e) that is run to every room in the house. I assume there are hardware...

Anyone else have problems with the SD port on the side of this monitor not working? I've installed all the drivers and hooked everything up. All of the USB ports on the side and below of the monitor work fine, but the SD port doesn't work at all. I see an 'unknown device' under usb in the...

I haven't kept up with the latest and greatest and was wondering what the best / most powerful chipset and motherboard were right now for intel chips? Cost doesn't matter, I just want to know whats the fastest on the market today.

I just got my new u3011 30' monitor and got it setup. It was supposed to have been calibrated at the factory and has a certificate saying it was.... however... everything has a blue tint to it. Is there a self recalibration on this thing I can hit? If not, whats the best way to calibrate a...

when I have several virtual machines hitting the hard drives at once, almost the entire machines IO access grinds to a halt. When I have these same vm's running on another server that is just straight 2tb hard drive (no hardware raid card) then it works just fine. is there a setting I need...

I have a habey case with SATA/SAS backplane and 8 hot swap drive bays. I also have a 3ware 9750 8i card. I have two 8087 to 8087 cables running from the card to the two backplanes (4 bays per row). The backplane hotswap drive connectors are SAS/SATA (no wedge in middle) so either a SAS or...

I bought a habey 2u case that has a power switch line with a 3 slot pin female end. The motherboard I have (supermicro x7dbe) has a 2 pin male header. Anyone have any idea what I need to do to make these two talk? googling 3 pin to 2 pin brings up a ton of noise but nothing I can use.

googling hitachi 2tb TLER brings back really mixed results about whether or not it supports it. Hitachi's site doesn't really give much information either. Does anyone know yes or no if it supports it? I don't want to see my raid 5 blow a gasket and start rebuilding if one of these drives...