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WD MY BOOK 8TB – 5400RPM WD80EZZX WITH BENCHMARKS

In case someone is considering the Mybook route, SOME WESTERN DIGITAL MY BOOK DRIVES SHIPPING WITH DISCRETE ENTERPRISE HDD INSIDE

Realy good UPS for $140, i own two, bought two more.

Thanks for the headsup, I bought 3, the max it allowed at the discontinued price.

Anyone know what would be the procedure to flash an IBM M1015 that was flashed successfully to FW19.00.00 Bios 7.37.00, under the X9SCM-F to an older firmware/bios? I tried just doing the sas2flsh -o -f 2118it.bin -b mptsas2.rom But i get an error that its an older version, and cant do it. So in the state that my M1015 is already on IT mode with newer bios and firmware, what would be the correct procedure? like the beggining? megarec -writesbr 0 sbrempty.bin megarec -cleanflash 0 Thanks for any suggestions,

Thanks BetaQuasi, really appreciate the guide, worked like a charm with my X9SCM-F-O, flashed two IBM M1015 in less than 20mins.

Hi, Im about to move into a new case, Lian LI PC-D8000, atm im planning on moving the current hardware to it which is SUPERMICRO X9SCM-F Intel Xeon E3-1230 Kingston 4GB ECC DDR3 1333 2x IBM M1015 8x Hitachi 5K3000 2TB (5400rpm) 8x Seagate ST4000DM000 4TB (5900rpm) 6x Samsung 1.5TB (5400rpm) I'll be swaping the 6 samsung for 6x WD 5tb reds when they hit the market, but not planning on changing toward 7200rpms drives ever. When 4k movies become mainstream, im planning on modding the case to fit 32 to 36hdds (will depend on how the modding go). Still undecided on which PSU should i upgrade to, thinking on todays requirements, according to the 2amp rule on the the first post, the 24x2 = 48amps, in the future 32x2 = 64amps, an 850W with single 12V rail will have 70amps, so a little tight for the future, but also not all hdds take 2amps fully, some go lower, so i was thinking 850W would be fine. I am considering the Corsair RM Series 850 Watt ATX/EPS 80PLUS Gold-Certified Power Supply - CP-9020056-NA RM850, but open to any suggestions that could fit the needs better.

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Yeah. I just bought 2x 4TB Hitachi HDS724040ALE640 Deskstar 7K4000 because of the 3 year warranty. Buying any drive with a one year warranty is not my idea of a good time. The Hitachi drives are so reliable[/img] I personally have a good experience with Hitachi also, and im keeping 8x 2tb for now, but Hitachi drives are expensive, specially the 4tb are like $220-250, while this are $150. RMA for me its expensive, i have to pay like $40 to ship them back, i havent return a hdd in the last 5 years due to cost. So im betting on cheaper and replace them if they fail, kinda expensive... but thats my life. One thing that sold me on this drives were comments on SPCR about they bieng very quiet drives, and even though i know my server is not going to be really quiet... i do appriciate a drive that does have to loud noise. Btw since newegg release the seagates on the shell shocker deals for $150 today, amazon already price match them again.

Amazon had the restriction of 4hdds, so i had to call my brother to order another 4. So 8x 4tb seagates on my way