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Was there a reason for going with DDR4 2133 RAM? Intel website indicates that the E5-2620 V3 supports up to DDR4 1866. Reason I ask is that I found a bundled package being offered that includes the E5-2620 V3 and DDR4 2133 as well.

How about the Supermicro X10DRL-i? ATX, 10 x SATA3, dual Intel GbE LAN, onboard video + IPMI, up to 512GB in 8 x DIMM slots, supports VT-d (based on my reading of the manual).

Unfortunately I can't answer your questions, but for the Supermicro there are some places that suggest that "-O" just refers to retail packaging (https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/supermicro-motherboard-part-number-guide.17511/ or even here http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=15046.0). However, I'm also trying to understand what the significant differences are between an X99 board that supports ECC and a MB with a C612 chipset (like the X10SRA-F). It seems from Newegg reviews that the Supermicro packaging sometimes results in bent components - like the VGA port. My dilemma is that I would probably have to have the Supermicro shipped in, whereas I can get an X99 locally. So if there's not too much difference, I'd go for the X99 (but that's because of my situation).

If you're using an SSD for your cache drive, does having a dual NIC (even unaggregated) help to take advantage of the SSD speed? For me, drive slots are a very limited resource, so I would only use a small capacity drive for cache purposes.

Thanks, johnnie.black, that's exactly what I needed to know!

I'm trying to add a cache pool of two SSD drives to my aging unRAID tower. I'm using a Supermicro C2SEE board, and have maxed out the 6 SATA connectors with Parity + 5 data drives. I came across this Silverstone ECM20 adapter onto which I can mount 2 M.2 SSD drives. It is installed in a PCI-E x4 slot, and one of the mounted M.2 drives interfaces directly with the PCI-E slot and the other requires a SATA connection (and is therefore not usable for me, as I have no more SATA connectors left). So I will need one adapter per drive for my situation. However, I'm not sure whether my available PCI-E slots will let me take advantage of this adapter and M.2 drives, and I'm quite confused by the PCI-E slot terminology. The board has one PCI-E x1 slot, which is clearly too small. It also has a "PCI-E Gen2 x16" slot and a "PCI-E x4 on x16" slot. I understand that the x16 in both cases refers to the length of the slot. So I'd like to install one M.2 SSD in each of these slots. From my Googling, it seems that physically I can install the adapter in both of the x16 slots, since I just need the slot to be at least x4 in size. But how is the speed affected? I'm guessing that the PCI-E x4 on x16 slot will be fast enough. But will the PCI-E Gen2 x16 slot be fast enough? I don't need the SSDs to be as fast as possible; I'd just like them to at least feel like SSD-speed

Thanks for the clarification; much appreciated.

Still hoping for some definitive word on the availability of the AVS-10/4. Yes, I've tried emails to both support and sales, but no response. It would just be so helpful to know whether the AVS-10/4 is still being sold. If it's not, that's OK, at least I know it's not an option to consider. I'm a little puzzled about why there's no official word on this.

That's great! What's the Qnap model number?

It seems that the TVS-663 allows booting from USB for firmware recovery and it has video output, so it looks promising. But are you running unRAID on the fixed Qnap? Videodr0me is running unRAID on his/her Asustor.

Taking a look at the CPU, it seems that it's possible at least to run a VM, although without hardware passthrough? (Has VT-x, though not VT-d.)

This is a very interesting approach and I would think of great interest to quite a few people. I'm in Singapore, and unfortunately we can't get lots of the hardware mentioned in the forums, at least not at a comparable price and without substantial shipping costs. However, NAS's like the Asustor are available, so this is a viable option. I'm trying to rebuild my unRAID server, but while it's been fun at times, it's also been enormously frustrating (now my Supermicro C2-SEE refuses to POST...) so I'm trying to find a pre-built solution. Unfortunately it seems the AVS-10/4 is rarely available (and no response to email enquiries) so the Asustor looks like a practical alternative. I realise the Asustor is not in the same league, but the pre-built angle is enormously attractive. I was mainly interested in the AVS-10/4 because there didn't appear to be any alternative, so the fact that the Asustor CPU is much less powerful is not such a big issue.

If it's OK to revive this.... is this available? It's a bit confusing: if I go via the home page to products/avs-10-4 I end up at http://lime-technology.com/configure-and-buy-avs-104/ where it says "Temporarily out of stock". If I go to http://lime-technology.com/avs-104-server/ (thank you, Google) there is an Ordering & Shipping tab that takes me to www.ewebcart.com where I seem to be able to place an order. I don't want to pay and then find out it's out of stock and have the headache of getting the money back. Of course, the checkout option might not let me proceed, but I thought I would check here first. As I'm not in the USA, the shipping adds a lot to the cost as well, so it's a bit too much to play around with.

Just for info, in case anyone looks at this: Linux Reader and YAReG both work under Win 8 64 bit. With Linux Reader you need to select the Save option. With YAReG, you need to run both the rftool and YAReG exe's as administrator. I'm in the process of rebuilding my unRAID; the box has been dismantled and the hard disks have been removed. So I'm hooking them up using an IDE/SATA to USB3 Vantec adapter (yes, some disks are IDE) and using them to copy the files to my NAS. So far it seems to be working fine, although a bit slowly.

Many thanks for all the help.

Thanks for the clarification. My concern is around what happens in between detach and resume. Can I shut down the PC in between without affecting the preclear?

Thanks, I never knew about Screen. Just to confirm my reading of the Screen documentation: if I install Screen and run preclear via Screen, I CAN quit the Screen telnet session and the preclear will still be running. I can also then shut down the PC and re-attach to Screen (and the still running preclear session) after I restart the PC. Is my understanding correct?

Apologies if this has already been asked and answered - couldn't find it. If I've started a preclear session via a DOS window telnet on my Windows PC, can I shutdown the PC and then restart the PC later and get back into the same preclear session? And if so, will the preclear still have been running on the unRAID server (so I would see the progress made)? Or does the preclearing stop when the telnet session ends?

There's a 2 port card here. Cost is $17.45, including shipping. The page says it's 4 port, but it seems (from the comments) that it's actually 2 ports, as you have to select 2 out of the 2 internal and 2 external ports. One review says the chipset is SIL3132, and if you look VERY closely you can see under the big chip there's text that says SIL3132 VER C. I haven't bought the card, although I have bought other stuff from this site. They're generally been reliable, though from my experience reading the comments on various products, the pictures don't always reflect the product accurately.