Re: Fastest (IO) micro ATX motherboard

2012-12-06 Thread Dan Carroll
cheap i3 CPUs for my systems. The only bad thing are the 4x Sata on Board. Would be nice if there were more. The embedded features are kinda cool. r On 05.12.2012 03:01, Dan Carroll wrote: On 5/12/2012 12:23 AM, Patrick Heinson wrote: currently we are using an Intel s1200kp http://www.intel.com

Re: Fastest (IO) micro ATX motherboard

2012-12-04 Thread Dan Carroll
On 5/12/2012 12:23 AM, Patrick Heinson wrote: currently we are using an Intel s1200kp http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/motherboards/server-motherboards/server-board-s1200kp.html with 8-16GB of Ram. Performance is with 2x2TB mirror 80-85mb/sec write and 100+mb/sec read. All the thinks

Fastest (IO) micro ATX motherboard

2012-12-02 Thread Dan Carroll
Hello, I'm thinking of putting together a couple of custom built NAS boxes (4 drive) to use up a plethora of SATA drives I've accumulated. I'll be running ZFS probably in mirrored or raidz arrangements. I'd like to be able to get good enough performance so that things like iSCSI are viable

Re: Supermicro X7SBE with Chenbro 16 bay 4U case

2012-09-19 Thread Dan Carroll
On 19/09/2012 6:29 PM, Matt Burke wrote: If your chassis is the RM41416, or similar to it, then there'll be an 'alarm silence' button on the front. A bent paperclip will tell you if it's the chassis or PSU screaming. Is your PSU overloaded? I found that with 16x 7200RPM SAS disks and a dual

Re: Supermicro X7SBE with Chenbro 16 bay 4U case

2012-09-19 Thread Dan Carroll
On 20/09/2012 1:02 AM, Mike Tancsa wrote: Does this board have ipmi ? Perhaps you could slurp out some sensor logs that way ? e.g on some of my Supermicro boards, ipmitool -U ADMIN -I lan -H IP address of IPMI nic sel list also sensor and sdr will tell you some info like below (SuperMicro

Supermicro X7SBE with Chenbro 16 bay 4U case

2012-09-18 Thread Dan Carroll
Hiya All, I have the above gear with an Areca 12 channel card in it.It's getting on and I'm getting a periodic loud beeping from it. When it starts it beeps for about half a second and repeats every 15 seconds or so. If I shut the system down totally for a few hours the problem goes

Re: Supermicro X7SBE with Chenbro 16 bay 4U case

2012-09-18 Thread Dan Carroll
On 19/09/2012 1:16 AM, Mike Tancsa wrote: Hi, Is it the card, or the MB that is beeping ? Did you try and look at the RAID card to see if its complaining about a disk ? Hello, I think it's the chassis to be honest. There are no error logs on the card either, of that I am