Recent content by unknownerrors

the 40TB drive is an iSCSI disk hosted on my local fileserver with a very large RAID either 50 or 60 array, I forget.. That is just what I needed, TY very much.

In order to understand what is vexing me some background information is needed. I have a 40TB backup drive that is nearly full. I need to make a cold storage backup of the backup, but I do NOT want to back everything up to the same drive so I have a bunch of 6tb drives that I have been backing...

I was able to get 600MB/s because both systems had Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X520-SR2's connected with a single 10G copper cable. I forget what the cable is called but its one of those copper cables with the SFP's hardwired to each end. I'll give a normal cable a shot and report back.

I upgraded my system a few days ago and made the mistake of miscounting the number of PCI slots on my new board. after considering my options i choose to take out my 10g PCI network card since the server I'm connecting to has 4 1g ethernet ports on board. When I was using the 10G PCI card i was...

it's not too late. since this is my first time working with hardware RAID I wanted to clear up a few of the finer details before i put the system into production. That said besides favoring RAID6 is there anything else i should consider?

I made a NASBox running Windows Server 2012 R2 then configured all my storage into 4 15TB iSCSI disks because windows would not allow me to make an iSCSI disk larger than 16TB. to overcome this size limitation I formatted the drives into one "striped" partition on the target computer. I'm...

you can try to repair the drive with something like TestDisk. However, if that doesn't work, I highly favor R-Studio for data recovery from damaged drives

If you have two open PCI slots in your current system you can get yourself a raid card and an expander. then get a couple of these ICY DOCK 6 x 2.5 SSD to 5.25 Drive Bay. or if you really want to put them into their own system, get a case with plenty of 5.25 drive bays and slap a server board...

I have two systems each with LSI RAID cards and HP SAS Expanders. The expanders have a Mini SAS26P SFF-8088 ports (external) What I'd like to know is if I can connect the two systems together via Mini SAS26P SFF-8088 to SFF-8088 cable so that the two systems can pool their storage. Thank you...

First off here is a log file from HWiNFO showing the sensor stats on every piece of hardward in my box. The log was taken as the crash happened. I just started playing WoW again after a 3 year break. I'm running a fairly beefy system, 8 core 4GHz, 24GB DDR3, Radeon R9380, on a GIGABYTE...

So I setup this raid 5 in Windows 2012 server (software raid) since i have had second thoughts about using raid 5 and have changed my OS to FreeNAS. After installing FreeNAS I had trouble getting any of the drives to import (format) so I booted up to my utility boot disc and tried a number of...