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Short and sweet: how to choose a RAID/HBA controller for the server

RAID controllers have not left and are not going to, on the contrary, hardware controllers for NVME and PCI Express drives (including M2 format drives) are entering the market. The abundance of drives and software features of RAID/HBA make you approach this choice as responsibly as possible, otherwise you may lose data. RAID controllers have not left and are not going to, on the contrary, hardware controllers for NVME and PCI Express drives (including M2 format drives) are entering the ...
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What can Synology be replaced with in the conditions of sanctions. Part 2: Choosing a software

The most difficult thing is not even to pick up packages to replace Synology services with free ones, but to support their work, promptly responding to glitches and updates. This is not an easy, but doable task that can be completed in a few weeks. Installing applications, configuring services Having planned the storage, I proceed to installing the software. Docker is already installed, and now I will install MergerFS and SnapRAID file system support for the archived data array. For example ...
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Guide to buying used servers

Your business has already grown so much that you need your own server for CRM, MySQL or virtualization, but the prices for server hardware upset you? In this article, we will tell you how to save up to 100 times on buying used server hardware and not regret buying it. Server equipment has a huge safety margin, it can operate 24/7 for years and decades. And if you are not worried about the lack of warranty and support, but there is a desire to buy a top server at the price of a good mobile phone ...
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Synology UC3200 Review: affordable dual-controller iSCSI storage

First dual-controller storage from Synology, marketed as iSCSI storage for virtualization ... includes storage traffic (NFS, FC, iSCSI) and application traffic, and voice ... which I find most convenient. iSCSI storage organization Three years ago ... in memory and iSCSI LUN data to speed up read operations, so ... the only difference that the dual-port SAS SSD drives " ... Network Controllers and 10/25Gb Intel, Marvell and Mellanox Network Controllers ... not even feel this slight delay and will not result in ...
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QNAP TS-2483XU-RP review: 24-disk head unit NAS

QNAP has got very interesting monstrous NAS-s for working with large amounts of data. The storage system under consideration today with a head unit for 24 3.5-inch hard drives makes it possible to pack 384 TB of data into one system and do without expansion shelves at all, which may be quite enough for the needs of a small enterprise. QNAP has got very interesting monstrous NAS-s for working with large amounts of data. The model under review with the long name TS-2483XU-RP is a data storage ...
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Aquantia AQtion AQC107 vs Intel X550-T2 - comparing 10G interfaces in iSCSI and CIFS file operations

... the SmB segment, and in Dell Optiplex 7050 workstations, they were ... ), RAID Z1, LZ4 off, Dedupe off. Windows Server 2016 (8Gb iSCSI LUN ... board Intel X550-T2 OSes: Windows 10 x64 IOmeter for iSCSI CrystalDisk ... Intel i350. Neither Intel X550-T2 nor AQtion AQC-107 have any iSCSI ... ahead on read operations with both MTU values. In the iSCSI test ... original Intel network card from the one soldered by Chinese craftsmen,  read ... our article . Support from operating systems Intel is doing ...
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Huawei OceanStor 2200 V3 review - entry-level block virtualization storage

... competes with brands such as Dell/EMC, Netapp and HPE. Following ... according to the active-active dual-controller scheme, traditional for SAN ... will connect storage systems via iSCSI, but the configuration mechanism via ... , to transfer logical disks from Dell, IBM or HP storage without ... not see each other, and Dell or HP products were not ... so many software functions that deal with data blocks. Well, since ... 2 Tb RAID 5 Soft Debian 9 Stretch Without Intel Meltdown / Specter ...
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Intel Xeon D-1600 processor family

Intel has updated the Broadwell-DE series of embedded processors for Edge applications. First of all, the frequency of each of the cores has increased, support for 4 10GBe network controllers has appeared and the performance of QAT technology has increased. We first got acquainted with the Broadwell-DE series processors in 2015. Now, four years after the initial release of this series of SoCs, Intel is releasing the 1600 Xeon D processor line, and in this article, we will discuss what's new ...
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Thecus N5500 Review: enterprise 5-disk file server

... Intel Celeron processor with a frequency of 1.86 GHz, Dual ... differs from others. Processor - Intel Celeron 1.86 GHz/1Mb ... connections Supports up to 5 iSCSI targets iSCSI Dynamic Section Stacking support ... is a complete motherboard for Intel processor. The memory is recruited ... uses a 1.86 GHz Intel Celeron Mobile processor (533 ... used for testing: CPU - Intel Xeon X3220 (Quad-Core 2 ... with the desktop Pentium Dual Core in RAID 5 write speed, and ... close-to-reality test of Intel NAS Performance Toolkit. By ...
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RAID as the main attribute of the server

In this article, we will look at the advantages offered by RAID arrays and compare four IDE RAID controllers from manufacturers such as 3ware, Adaptec, HighPoint and Promise. Today hard drive manufacturers are very tough competition among themselves. In this struggle, they are forced to increase the volume of their hard drives, releasing larger and larger disks. Unfortunately, the volume of media is often counterbalanced by their reliability. Most HDD manufacturers have already reduced the ...