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    ZFS Pool config for new SAS expander chassis

    Arriving in the mail today is the 45 bay Supermicro SAS expander chassis I got off eBay. My plan is to fill it with 3TB drives, I already have about 25 drives and am looking to purchase some additional white label drives off eBay in the next few weeks. My current thought is 3 15 drive RAIDZ3...
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    HP D2700 questions

    I have a pile of 2.5" 500GB SATA drives that I'm thinking about putting into a D2700. I have a couple questions about them and I'm hoping someone with some experience can help. It looks like a lot of the ones listed are without trays or without a complete set of trays. I have some HP...
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    Supermicro drive trays

    Thanks for the info guys. Going to order a a dozen. That makes sense with installing them upside down. I just didn't want to buy a bunch and then be stuck with something I couldn't use.
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    Supermicro drive trays

    I recently purchased SM server - http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/2U/6026/SYS-6026TT-HIBQRF.cfm?INF= I have a bunch of 2.5" 15K SAS drives that I'd like to use in it. The existing trays only have provisions for mounting 3.5" drives. I've found some trays that hold 2.5" drives -...
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    Supermicro Backplanes - Expanders vs Direct Connections

    That's great info Bluefox, thanks. If I can get it for the right price I'm going to pick it. Now I just need to figure out how I'm going to connect the extra 12 drives. It seems like an expander is my best bet, probably the Intel one, instead of 2 more M1015s.
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    Supermicro Backplanes - Expanders vs Direct Connections

    I found a couple posts on various sites where people were using the backplane with 4TB drives. Can you elaborate on why you think I would have problems?
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    Supermicro Backplanes - Expanders vs Direct Connections

    BlueFox/PigLover - Thanks for clearing that up for me. One more question, do I still need multiple HBAs with an expander backplane? I had to email the seller to and provide them info on how to locate the backplane model. Its not one of the two mentioned in this thread already. Its a...
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    Supermicro Backplanes - Expanders vs Direct Connections

    I thought you could only dual link with SAS drives? I will be using SATA drives.
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    Supermicro Backplanes - Expanders vs Direct Connections

    I currently have a 24 bay SM case that has individual SAS/SATA connections for each bay. I'm running 3 M1015 HBAs to connect to all the drives. Recently I acquired 24 3TB SATA drives and I'm looking at a 36 bay case to put them in and transplant the 12 2TB drives in my existing case. The 36...
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    10Gb Connection

    Can I use something like this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/671798-001-HP-10GB-MELLANOX-CONNECTX-2-PCIe-10GBe-ETHERNET-NIC-BOTH-BRACKETS-/350983607686?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item51b840d586 And this...
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    How many monitors can I run off a single 650 TI?

    Its a Sabertooth X79 and an i7-3930K, so no on-board video.
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    How many monitors can I run off a single 650 TI?

    It looks like I've got 2 DVI, 1 Display Port and 1 VGA. Hopefully I can use all of them simultaneously.
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    How many monitors can I run off a single 650 TI?

    I currently run four monitors off two different cards. I've got a new machine to replace my existing one that currently has a single Asus 650 TI. How many monitors can I run off of it?
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    ZIL SLOG Device

    Is the concern that the SSD is going to lose data in the event of a power loss? And you say normally the server would come back up and you'd be ok. Is that normally with a system that has an SSD SLOG with power loss protection?
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    ZIL SLOG Device

    Why is power loss protection an important feature for an SSD?
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