Infiniband Guide
A practical guide for admins who need to plan the required amount of bandwidth and what connectors/cards are needed for which.
Standard
Speed
Cable/Connector........
USB 3.0 PCI x1 Card Review VIA VL805 on Linux Review and Experience
This is a VIA made VL805 USB 3.0 Chipset with 4-ports and MOLEX powered. First of all this unit was cheap at about only 9 USD with fast shipping. My biggest concern was if this was a quality unit and would it really give you full USB 3.0 speeds (some people reported with similar cards that for some weird r........
HP XW9400 Motherboard In Desktop Issues
Fortunately the format is EATX so an EATX case will work and the screw layout is standard.
You will need to remove the HEX/TORX screws that are connecting the stock HP standoffs (meant to slide into an HP case).
XW9400 Motherboard Issues
Size: 12" x 13"
Proprietary Power Connector
Proprietary CPU Power Connector
Proprietary Memory Power Connector
Fan connectors are 4 pin so you will need some kind of adapter.........
Dell FS12-NV7 2U Server Information and Guide
I've got one of these for testing projects from work at home and got more than I bargained for with the time I've spent on it due to the storage handing/Perc 6/i cards.
My particular model came with the following:
2U Rack Mount Server with Rails
2xOpteron 2373 EE (Quad Core, there is a 6-core version that can be found at times)
16GB RAM
2 x 250GB Seagate SATA
2 x Dell Perc 6/i (horrible and a nightmare to work........
Powersupply Issue, Motherboard AHCI issue?
This is the most I can get when plugging in a hard drive hot and only on some power connectors.
[71656.314271] ata5: exception Emask 0x50 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x90a02 action 0xe frozen
[71656.314277] ata5: irq_stat 0x00400000, PHY RDY changed
[71656.314285] ata5: SError: { RecovComm Persist HostInt PHYRdyChg 10B8B }
[71656.314294] ata5: hard resetting link
[71660.360686] ata5: softreset failed (device not ready)
[71660.360694] ata5: applying........
SATA Power cable for 1U Server Solutions - Rosewill 8" SATA Power Cable Model RC-8"-PW-4P-2SA
NewEgg is one of the few companies that stocks this great right angle 1U SATA power cable. I've purchased some no-name ones and they face the wrong way (towards the bottom of the chassis) which makes it worse/impossible than standard SATA connectors.
The price is high but if you're building a 1U server and want SATA disks and don't have much space (eg. the 1U Supermicro cases) then these are simply a must and........