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    Alphacool Eiskoffer Lucky Draw

    Love to give this a try. Had some difficulty making 3D bends in my last build. This looks like it would make it a piece of cake.
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    Intel Sandy Bridge 2600K and 2500K Processors @ [H]

    I just built a system for myself around the ASUS P8P67 Revolution and 2600K. Probably the easiest and most stable build I've done in awhile, BTW. The issues don't affect me directly cuz I'm using SATA III drives. Anyway, I did purchase an ASUS P8P67 Deluxe and 2600K from Amazon and both are...
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    Microcenter Has Taken Down All P/H 67 Boards !

    No need to get snippy. Mine has been rock solid too. I don't have anything on the 3gb ports, just two SSDs hanging off the 6gb ports. Yes, there is an issue with the board. The issue doesn't mean it can't be worked around. Got two or less hard drives? Use the 6gb ports, even if your...
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    Hyper-V and exchange 2010 questions

    Check your DNS settings on the WHS. Make sure it is pointing to your Domain Controller for DNS. Then configure the domain controller's DNS to forward to your ISP's DNS server for names your DC cannot resolve (do this in the forwarder tab). Sounds like you don't have an MX record pointing to...
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    3rd HD Failure on a Raid 5 in 3 Years...

    I believe he said Seagate ES.2 which are drives designated by Seagate for RAID/Enterprise storage. Comes with a 5 year warranty. I had ~15 of the 1TB drives in a RAID array at one point. That said, I don't think they're very reliable drives. In the 2.5 years I had them in operation, at...
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    HP SAS Expander Owner's Thread

    Has anyone tried the HP SAS expander with a Supermicro X8DTN+-F motherboard? I'm trying to find a suitable, dual LGA1366 motherboard with at least 12 DIMM sockets for 4GB ECC/Registered modules that doesn't have an issue resetting the expander card like some motherboard do. It also needs to...
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    "RAID is not a backup" ..ok then, what is?

    Thanks.... but fortunately, that building was evacuated well before the south tower collapse. There were no casualties from 7WTC, although it was a disturbing sight to see since my office faced the WTC plaza. Here's what it looked like in August from my office window, taken by a coworker who...
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    "RAID is not a backup" ..ok then, what is?

    My company used to be at 7 World Trade Center which had two entire floor datacenters. We all know what happened there. Almost 400 servers were crushed. Within 1 week we had the data recovered to servers at different sites. It wasn't RAID that allowed us to recover the data to another site...
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    ARECA Owner's Thread (SAS/SATA RAID Cards)

    Has anyone tried the new 1880 Areca controllers with the Supermicro chassis with the built in SAS expander on the backplane? Specifically the 847E1-R1400LPB (3 Gbps) and the 847E16-R1400LPB (6 Gbps) chassis? Any issues? Do the SES2/I2C features work with the backplane's LEDs?
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    Is RAID5 safe with Five 2TB Hard Drives?

    All these variations have been around for quite some time. I remember setting up a RAID 5 array on a Compaq Proliant 1000 some 15 years ago using a Compaq Smart Array Controller (there was no numerical designation on the model number back then) and installing Banyan Vines on it. That was my...
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    Ok to stack drives?

    I've found that stacking them that way causes the drive on the bottom to overheat quite a bit. I rather put them on their side with a little space between them. As long as you're careful around them, they're quite stable and will run much cooler.
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    HP SAS Expander Owner's Thread

    Yes, the 9690SA worked with my expander when it had version 1.0 firmware. It also worked when the 9690SA and drives were limited to SATA-I with other firmware. I've since gotten rid of the 3ware controller and went to the 1680 route mainly because of the power saving features and the ability...
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    Hitachi drives..

    I have 15 500 Gig Hitachis from a server I built in 2005. I stopped using them about 2 years ago and they sat on a shelf. 7 of them have been put back to use and they are working fine. I had 12 1TB Hitachis from a server built in ~2007 (I think it was originally 5 drives, then 7 purchased...
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    ESX as a file server

    I have a Lian-Li 343B cube case right now. It has eighteen 5.25 inch bays (nine on each side). I use six 5 to 3 hotswap bays (gives you five 3.5 inch hotswap bays per three 5.25 inch bays) which gives me 30 hotswap bays for hard drives. The server has room for six more 3.5 inch drives as...
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