Does ZFS really have a solution besides dual parity, something you don't need ZFS for?

Pardon my ignorance, but my take was that read errors can kill the array during the rebuild , not during normal operation. Because all the data on non-failed drives has to be read to reconstruct the failed drive. If an error is reported, all the RAID array needs to do is return errors when attempti...

OK, opinion... Error probability: 1 in 10^14 bits This isn't what WD's spec says. They say <1, not 1. The actual likelyhood of error is supposed to be lower. The issue is, how much lower? It depends on how conservative WD was and on whether they're trying to sell more expensive drives as more reliab...

The one you linked to isn't fanless. There's a fanless version which has a -EU suffix.

These TDP figures are useless. The CPU is sure to burn less than 17W. But yeah, it should be slightly less efficient than a Bay Trail for what that's worth.

If you didn't need the serial port*s*, Gigabyte also have at least one fanless Ivy Celeron board with two NICs, don't they?

You can believe me or not, I'm just some name on the internet. You are the forum's resident expert. Anyone who's watched the forum for more than a few weeks must have figured that out. It's your data, you decide how much risk you are willing to take. Personally I would never trust a Highpoint card....

If you wanted the full picture (in this case, I'd be content with a read test), you could write exactly what was on the drive in the first place. The risk isn't zero. Doing anything is risky. But that risk ought to be very small if you're careful. crappy RAID cards have bitten many people in the ass...

Since washu didn't answer that... You can in principle do whatever you want with a live distro and you certainly don't need to overwrite your current boot drive to install Linux for testing. While it's not strictly necessary to use a regular drive (or to use any kind of boot drive at all if only you...

oops!

The option's called max protocol or something. Search the manpage. Ubuntu might have enabled it by default for all I know.

If you are using Samba SMB 2.0 must also be enabled, it is often turned off by default. This is probably the #1 reason why home NAS appliances have such terrible speeds, they are using SMB 1.0. I do get decent (better than the OP in any case) throughput without enabling SMB2. And the smb.conf man p...

Sure, if I'm not mistaken there's one NIC we haven't heard about (who knows how bad it is?) and I guess I'm a bit of a switch snob because I don't associate D-Link with quality. I'm sure some of their switches are fast but it's certainly worth testing.

I assume the OP is talking about SMB performance which has issues you won't spot by benchmarking raw network throughput. Do bechmark it just in case but you can get slow SMB on a fast network. I don't know what's required to get 110MB/s since I don't care too much for last 20% or so of sequential pe...

I don't know what CPU you have, what other software you might run and so forth... but it looks like the minimum freq is set at 3Ghz so you might have to set it lower before you do anything else. And you should be setting policy on both cores. None of that may suffice since you apparently can't go un...

I'd be grateful if you didn't change my password. :-) Your passwords on more sensitive sites than SPCR might or might not have been compromised years ago by bugs you never heard about, by breaches unrelated to bugs or even by design. The new announcement about this old bug is mainly for people who r...

Thanks for your report, mamra. Good luck! No Win7 32-bit drivers on the vendor's website did not fill me with confidence to begin with. Does anyone know the reason for that by the way? Is that also because of a compatibility issue with the BIOS or are there really no drivers? I heard from Gigabyte t...

I haven't seen a mainstream consumer board that could't underclock in years. I'm not saying they don't exist but... Undervolting is something else and I do not recommend you underclock your CPU (other people in different situations are a different issue). I don't think undervolting your RAM would ma...

And I use non-ECC RAM in (unimportant) servers which never freeze. There are also people on this forum who use their non-ECC computers for distributed computing... no doubt they rarely freeze. But then I've also used non-ECC RAM in servers which have frozen (or worse) a good deal more often than mor...

Trying to find a mobo and CPU combo that idles < 20w and has enough power for expansion over the next 5 years is proving difficult. Really? What does idle at >20W DC these days? Why don't you simply get a regular server board with a more powerful CPU you could even upgrade down the road without cha...

As i will be on all the time, the priority is low idle power consumption. ... I'll be running a file sever, media server, mail server and download client on it at the start of things. ... Initially I plan to keep it simple with a mini-tower, pico psu, SSD for the OS and a WD green 3TB disk. That's ...

What's the relative performance of the baytrail-D vs that Ivy Bridge Celeron? http://ark.intel.com/compare/79052,76529,78867,71995 is it worth the extra 7W power usage I wonder? If you're comparing to quads which are currently more expensive (n=1), then it's mostly going to depend on whether your l...

Yes, the price is basically the same as the 847 Celeron boards, which are dated and slow. Most faster Celeron solutions are significantly more expensive unless of course you avert your eyes from the cheaper case/PSU combos, insist on using expensive drives and so forth. And of course they use a fan!...

Going by johnnyguru's review, the efficiency ought to be a bit higher. Even if it burned 5W, what business does this board have to consume 10.5-11W DC anyway?
There are efficient (and quiet/silent!) PSUs in regular retail channels by the way.

So with the setup I posted earlier and a Rosewill Capstone 450 watt I'm getting 15.5 -16 watts at idle with the Kill-a-Watt tester. PSU barely fits in this case.. I don't know how efficient your PSU is exactly but it ought not to be terrible and so your reading is unimpressive. I don't know if it's...

Do you think I can run this fanless? I would also put in a 2.5 SATA drive. Don't know. There are boards can be run fanless in this type of case but I've never tried this board. Are there any other options that are more powerful and can still be run fanless (and are easily available in the UK)? Depe...

GA-J1800N-D2H is now reported to be in stock here, and is listed an attractive price (in line with the 847 boards). Finally.

Seen any reviews with information about how these Gigabyte boards fare in different cases?
And what about the drivers?

You don't need a fast SSD or 8G of RAM for it. A faster SSD wouldn't hurt much but at current prices, buying so much RAM for a cheap build which doesn't need half as much would be a serious waste of money. There are cheaper case/PSU combos but I wouldn't skimp on this. Get a good one like the one Ab...

Retailers claim it's in stock here. It's kind of expensive but it's one of those rare boards with 2xRS232, 2xRJ45 and VGA (user clarry said they needed that earlier). Other boards do not seem to be in stock yet (though the MSI J1800 has been listed for ages). What's the driver situation now? Anyone ...

Yes but... Drivers may or may not be a problem. Make sure there are good drivers for your OS. Intel in particular has released some poor graphics drivers for its low-power chips of late. It shouldn't be a problem in the long run with Bay Trail but better make sure! Google Earth is supposed to run on...

Any recommendations for a UPS to power this NAS and a regular cable router/modem just long enough for the NAS to shut down would be greatly appreciated. Any decent UPS I know about will have batteries which are totally overkill to shut down such an efficient NAS. Ideally you want a UPS which doesn'...