Category: Storage
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Asus Pike 2008 SAS card
We have finally got one of these cards in-house for testing; We’re particularly interested in how it compares to cards like the M1015 in IT mode as an inexpensive way of adding 8 SAS/SATA ports to a storage server. Expect a post soon reporting on what we find! You can buy the Asus…
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ZFS: How to check compression efficiency
If you have enabled compression on a ZFS folder you can check to see just how much disk space you’re saving. Use the following command: sudo zfs get all [poolname]/[folder] | grep compressratio An example: sudo zfs get all backup01/data | grep compressratio returns the following: backup01/data compressratio 1.50x …
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Checking SSD health with ESXi 5.1
A new feature with ESXi 5.1 is the ability to check SSD health from the command line. Once you have SSH’d into the ESXi box, you can check the drive health with the following command: esxcli storage core device smart get -d [drive] …where [drive] takes the format of: t10.ATA?????????. You can find…
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Fractal Design Define R4 Review – Part One
If you’re in the market for an understated, quiet case that performs well and leaves plenty of room for expansion the Fractal Design Define series is quite likely to be on your list of cases to investigate. The latest revision of the case is R4, which draws upon user feedback on the R3…
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Fractal Design Define R4: Does a Corsair H100 cooler fit in the front?
With the release of the Fractal Design Define R4 we have been asked a few times about whether Corsair’s self-contained liquid cooling system will fit in the front. Placement here has a few advantages over placing it in the top of the chassis; noise is reduced, for a start, and if you use…
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Fractal Design Define R4: Removing all of the front drive trays
Someone asked how we removed the hard drive bays in the Fractal Design R4 builds we’re doing at the moment, so we wrote up a quick post for those who are wondering. If you want to install a radiator to the front of the R4 or are simply using a handful of SSDs…
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Western Digital Red Drive Performance Numbers: Sequential Read/Write
As a follow-up to our review (found here), we’ve finally finished testing the new Red drives and compared them to the equivalent Green drives.
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Western Digital 2TB Red Drive review (WD20EFRX)
Up until now Western Digital have separated their hard drive lines into three; Blue for consumer drives, Green for low-power drives and Black for performance. This has now been expanded with a fourth colour added to the stable; the WD Red NAS hard drive range. Western Digital tout these as being designed specifically…