Guys, I am finally moving my home servers from an old short length rack to 2 very nice APC VX racks that I gt at a very good price awhile ago.
The supermicro 3U server with supermicro rails works just fine in the new rack, but my NORCO 4U servers that I think have rl-20 rails on them are too...
So I saw the following ebay ad here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/SGI-3U-Media-Server-Storage-16-HD-Bay-SAS-SATA-SSD-SAN-Array-3-5-NAS-JBOD-GOOD-/140681716406?pt=COMP_EN_Servers&hash=item20c148a2b6#ht_2967wt_1396
It appears to be sold on ebay under various names, like here...
So tonight I was looking at a link from picker's NAS assembly bog and noticed this post: http://gdamore.blogspot.com/2010/08/why-sas-sata-is-not-such-great-idea.html
Is this really true? I have used my HP SAS expander with no issue at all with hardware RAID and SATA disks, and any of the high...
Hi. A friend of mine works for a company that does a bunch of online production. Right now, their storage solution is a bit of a shambles, and they asked me for some advice. (It's not a porn company :)).
They need to have about 32 TB of online to nearline storage for videos that have already...
So my storage server had been plugging along pretty well for sometime now. It's has 8 GB RAM and Q6600 (I do commmercial processing on the NAS too) CPU and has 2 volumes, an 8 drive 1TB Hitachi RAID6 array, and a 7 drive WD20EADS RAID6 array connected via an HP SAS expander to an adaptec...
Question for you guys: Can a ZFS server running opensolaris join an windows 2008 server active directory domain using the builtin CIFS server? I know it can join an 2003 based active directory domain, or a 2008 one in 2003 compatibility mode. But my question is whether or not it can join an...