This is what will be ordered on Monday: Western Digital Caviar Blue WD1600AAJS 160GB 7200 RPM SATA HDD $40 Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST380815AS 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb $36 Patriot Signature 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Unbuffered DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) $130 ENERMAX INFINITI EIN720AWT 720W PSU $150 I changed one to a different Seagate drive. This one is newer and has the same cache as the WD.
It seems I cannot use registered ECC RAM in ASUS M4A79T Deluxe m/b. So I’m going with Patriot Signature 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Unbuffered DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) for $130 instead.
The parts I ordered last week arrived on Friday. Unfortunately I forgot to order the RAM. It turns out the RAM I had selected was the wrong RAM; it was DDR2. The m/b takes DDR3. But I didn’t find that out until after I ordered it on Saturday, along with two small SATA drives for the OS. I had thought I had several spare SATA drives here, but it turns out I don’t.
Tonight I purchased the following items: ENERMAX ECO80+ EES620AWT 620W for $120 Samsung SATA CD/DVD Burner $20 (+ $8 shipping) ASUS M4A79T Deluxe m/b for $180 AMD Phenom II X4 945 CPU $150 2x SYBA SY-PEX40008 PCI Express SATA II 4 port at $60 each for $120 Kingston ValueRAM 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM ECC $97 Intel EXPI9301CTBLK 10/ 100/ 1000Mbps PCI-Express for $31 HITACHI Deskstar HD32000 IDK/7K (0S00164) 2TB 7200
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HAST has just been added to FreeBSD: HAST allows to transparently store data on two physically separated machines connected over the TCP/IP network. Those two machines together will be called a cluster and each machine is one cluster node. HAST works in Primary-Secondary (Master-Backup, Master-Slave) configuration, which means that only one of the cluster nodes can be active at any given time. Active node will be called Primary node. This is the node
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The liveusb-creator is a cross-platform tool for easily installing live operating systems on to USB flash drives. It runs on various operating systems and allows you to create a bootable device from an ISO image. This could be useful for advocacy purposes.
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Interesting posts here on ZFS tuning, espcially posts #34 and #35. Post #37 has an interesting perl solution.
I recently wrote about a tower case solution which sliced $500 off the cost. Last night we found an ASUS m/b for a Phenom II which supports ECC. This will be a cheaper faster solution. I will, however, have to buy a NIC. This NIC runs a Realtek chipset. No thanks. LIAN LI PC-A71F Black Aluminum ATX Full Tower Computer Case $240 (from mwave) Silencer 610 EPS12V from PC Power and Cooling for
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I’ve started seeing these messages recently: openvpn[2688]: latens.example.org/10.99.36.17:60467 Authenticate/Decrypt packet error: bad packet ID (may be a replay): [ #999 ] — see the man page entry for –no-replay and –replay-window for more info or silence this warning with –mute-replay-warnings After reading the man page, I decided to add the following and restart openvpn: replay-window 64 20 We’ll see….
Based on several recent posts, I found a new case, which I like quite a bit. My thanks to Dan Naumov for the concept. LIAN LI PC-A71F Black Aluminum ATX Full Tower Computer Case $240 (from mwave) Antec EarthWatts EA650 650W PSU $80 Samsung SATA CD/DVD Burner $20 (+ $8 shipping) Intel S3200SHV LGA 775 Intel 3200 m/b $200 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 CPU $190 SATA cables $22 Supermicro LSI MegaRAID 8 Port