garycase

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  1. Perhaps fate intends for you to settle for 4 cores 😊 … This is definitely frustrating. The 2174G is a superb processor; but when you want its 6-core big brother, that's what you should get !! As I'm sure you know, the 2174G actually has better per/core processing power than the 2176G -- but with only 4 cores it has less overall power. It's really surprising that two different vendors have now shipped the wrong chip. Is Intel miss-labeling the packaging??
  2. You can, of course, have all of that -- you just need to step up to the datacenter-class E5's and supporting motherboards 😊 There is, of course, a more-than-modest price differential to do that !! You can build a very nice E2176G based system for the price of the CPU alone of a high-end Xeon E5.
  3. True … but for my needs the E2176G is plenty "impressive" ==> PassMark over 14,000 (14409 to be precise); 6 cores; IGP; ECC support; and all that performance in an 80w TDP package. I plan to build a new system in February … and it'll almost certainly be E2176G based.
  4. This IS depressing 😊 But hopefully it'll be well worth the wait … as I noted earlier, the performance of an 8700k, lower TDP, and ECC support … what's not to like ??
  5. Actually what you wrote in your description was "RAM: 16GB Kingston 8GB ECC KVR16E11/8" I noticed the 8GB ECC … I'm not sure what it actually means as you wrote it -- do you have mixed ECC/non-ECC RAM ?? (a bad idea) As for what graphics card -- it depends very much on what you want to do with it. Assuming your happy with the graphics performance of your current desktop, I'd be sure you buy a card with at least as much "horsepower" as your current card. There are a lot of different benchmarks for these -- I'd tend to just use the GPU PassMark to compare cards [ https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_list.php ]
  6. Your server's E-1230v3 has a Passmark of 9324, and your i7-3820 scores 9000, so the VM could potentially have effectively the same CPU "horsepower" as your current system, depending on what else was going on at the same time in your server. However, your main PC has 16GB of RAM, and your server only has 8GB -- not all of which can be assigned to the VM -- so you'd need to bump up the server's memory a good bit if you wanted to assign an equivalent amount of RAM to your VM. I'd probably increase the server RAM to 32GB. Finally, you'll also need a pass-thru video card with sufficient power to match what you have now in the main PC … which you didn't mention. As to whether it's a good idea or not to do this -- in general I'd say wait until you're actually ready to upgrade your main PC before doing this … the cost of doing all the upgrades is likely a lot more than what you'd get for the 3rd gen PC.
  7. Certainly doesn't speak well for their shipping quality control that they sent the WRONG processor !! I hope they at least sent you a pre-paid label to return the incorrect processor. It does sound like you're at least CLOSE to actually getting one of these chips … hopefully you can put it all together while you're having a turkey feast next week 😊
  8. FedEx needs a fleet of snowmobiles 😊
  9. Runs fine on my trusty old D525, but still adds ~ 2 1/2 hrs to parity checks, so it's back to 6.5.3 for that trusty old system. The last few parity checks … (the 2 really long ones were when I tried 6.6.3 and now 6.6.5) 2018-11-11, 18:55:19 15 hr, 11 min, 23 sec54.8 MB/sOK0 2018-11-10, 21:18:08 17 hr, 37 min, 11 sec47.3 MB/sOK0 2018-10-25, 14:08:37 15 hr, 13 min, 32 sec54.7 MB/sOK0 2018-10-24, 20:31:59 17 hr, 52 min46.7 MB/sOK0 2018-10-01, 17:40:00 15 hr, 10 min, 12 sec54.9 MB/sOK0 Note that this system used to take less than 8 hrs for a parity check on v5.
  10. That's still very good. My D525 setup (no cache, temp-controlled fan) idles right at 20w … but for the additional power an extra 16 watts is clearly meaningless. [16w 24/7 => 140kwh/year => ~ $28/yr at the US avg of $0.20/kwh Somehow I don't think that's amount that you'll notice 😊
  11. Let us know -- inquiring minds are very anxious to see how this baby performs 😊 I'm almost certain this is the CPU I'll use for my next system -- as you've already noted, the performance of an 8700k, lower TDP, and ECC support … what's not to like ??
  12. Agree, the 2176G looks like a perfect chip for a NAS … the performance of an 8700K but with ECC memory. Definitely worth waiting for IMHO. A small wait may also result in a wider universe of supporting motherboards to choose from -- although for my purposes the SuperMicro board looks just fine.
  13. It can certainly slow things down if you're constantly waiting for spin-ups to access directories. One way to mitigate this is to set your disk spin-down timer to a value that will eliminate most spin-downs while you're actively using the system (e.g. 3 or 4 hours); and then click on Spin-Up when you're going to be using the system a lot. If you do this, you might also want to set the md_write_method to "reconstruct write", which will makes writes appreciably faster (but this setting requires all disks be spinning for a write).
  14. FWIW one of my systems is running a version identified as version 2018.10.14 on the Plugin page but as 2.2.0j on the Settings page. My other systems are using the version shown as 2016.08.26 and as 2.1.1 on the Settings page. I've held off on updating the older versions since the newest one seems to have some issues. I assume that at some point in the not-too-distant future the plugin will update to 2.2.1 (or later) with the built-in "Check for Updates" feature on the Plugin page, and that will resolve the current issues.
  15. Agree with landS => that was a wonderful tool. It'd be really cool to get an updated version 😀
  16. Was just curious if I had any copies of Netscape "buried" in my old archives -- found copies of v2, v4.7, and v7 🙂 Not going to try them on Windows 10 -- I'm sure they won't work. 'Nor am I going to try a REALLY ancient utility I remembered as I was wading through the archives -- UniDOS … a CP/M emulator than runs under MSDOS. I do recall that this works fine on XP … and a few years ago I confirmed it also works on an XP virtual machine -- so I COULD (if I was so inclined) actually run CP/M on my nice new Core i7 Windows 10 machine under an XP VM 😄 … then I could run my old Beta v0.70 of WordStar (circa 1979 when I was a Beta tester for MicroPro)
  17. 😀 I rather doubt you're running ANY version of it 😉 There is, however, a difference between no support for IE11 and no support for Netscape. Netscape actually preceded the first version of Internet Explorer (1994 vs 1995). Although Navigator did gain some market share in the late 1990's, it "fizzled" rather rapidly in the early 2000's and has not had any updates or support for well over a decade. The story is quite different for IE, which evolved through 11 versions, the latest of which is still supported by Microsoft and will be until April 14, 2020 for mainstream support and Oct 14 2025 for extended support. [These are the Windows 10 lifecycle dates; and Microsoft has clearly stated that "... IE 11 will be supported for the life of Windows 10"] I don't really care if it works with UnRAID or not … I simply noted that as of 6.6.3 it does not, but it DID work just fine with all previous versions of the GUI, so this was something that "broke" with that update. Trivial to resolve by just using another browser -- unless, as bonienl suggested above, the user is in a corporation which requires IE11 as a corporate policy.
  18. If that's the case, then these companies are being excluded from using UnRAID with the latest version.
  19. I agree -- that was obvious 3 years ago when I first tried v6 on this system. I spent a fair amount of time "fiddling" with various settings to try and tweak the performance, and although it was possible to improve it some, it never came close to the performance with v5. I simply reverted that system to v5 until about a year ago, when I decided to just live with the lower performance and longer parity check times so all of my servers would be on the same version. But clearly something else has changed with 6.6.3, which adds yet another 3 hours to the parity check times. Not a big deal … I simply reverted the system to 6.5.3 and it will simply remain on that until I eventually decide to get rid of this server. Yes No. The SuperMicro X7SPA-HF motherboard has 6 SATA ports on the board.
  20. Agree … the latest version doesn't seem to be working. I upgraded my storage server to 6.6.3 and updated to the latest version of Dynamix Cache Directories; then decided to revert to 6.5.3 due to a massive increase in parity check time (nearly 3 hours) -- but Cache Directories is still on the latest version (2018.10.14). After reading the last couple posts here, I checked to see if it's working -- I have it set to only cache ONE of my shares ("Backups"), but if I access that share ALL of the disks spin up and it takes several seconds to read and display the info. Prior to the upgrade, accessing that share was virtually instant, as the directory info was cached.
  21. Bumping the processor up to an i5 or i7 would indeed give you significantly more "horsepower". Your G3420 scores 3405 on PassMark. A Core i5-4670 scores 7436 -- more then double your current value. An i7-4770 scores 9786 -- almost triple the Pentium's score (2.87 x to be precise). Your motherboard supports all of those processors, and the power supply is plenty powerful. Your Pentium has a TDP of 53W. The i5-4670 and i7-4770 both have a TDP of 84W. This is a nominal difference … and in fact neither will draw nearly that much power during the vast majority of the time. Checking recent sales of these CPUs on e-bay, the i5 has been selling in the $75 - $100 range; the i7 is both rarer and notably more expensive (around $135 and up), but it does have about 1/3rd more "horsepower" than the i5. Either should be a very nice upgrade.
  22. I have a couple old RAMBUS modules in my "old junk" box -- but no boards that use them. I also have an unopened 80287 math coprocessor chip for an 80286 🙂. The $195 price tag is still on the bag. Can anyone say pack rat ??
  23. About the only thing I can think of vis-à-vis the disk temp difference is that perhaps a fan connector was loose and a fan wasn't spinning to cool the disks, and after you swapped out the boards the connection was solid and the fan was spinning. Clearly you'll never know -- but SOMETHING has to be responsible for the difference 🙂
  24. Good price !! Where can I get one of those 😄
  25. That makes no sense !! 🙂 But the performance gains are certainly nice (as I would have expected). What's your idle (disks all spun down) power consumption?