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John C.

John C.

Joined on 02/02/02

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Most Favorable Review

Works great for software RAID

SUPERMICRO AOC-SAT2-MV8 64-bit PCI-X133MHz SATA II (3.0Gb/s) Controller Card
SUPERMICRO AOC-SAT2-MV8 64-bit PCI-X133MHz SATA II (3.0Gb/s) Controller Card

Pros: This unit works very well in several unix based systems I have. they show up right away in solaris snv_100 and above maybe earlier builds but that is the newest I have used them on... they make great ZFS sata cards for lower speed sata drives. I also use them with openfiler 2.3 and fully populated they work fine with hitachi 1tb drives.

Cons: I do some times have a problem at a cold boot the first drive in each of the cards in the openfiler system has problems but when the system is booted up all of the drives show up and there are no errors in any of the logs.

Most Critical Review

purchased 3 of these for a vsan build

ASRock Rack B650D4U-2L2T/BCM Micro-ATX Server Motherboard Single Socket AMD EPYC™ 4005/4004 and AMD Ryzen™ 9000/8000/7000 Series Processors (LGA 1718) B650E PCIe 5.0 Dual 10G Lan
ASRock Rack B650D4U-2L2T/BCM Micro-ATX Server Motherboard Single Socket AMD EPYC™ 4005/4004 and AMD Ryzen™ 9000/8000/7000 Series Processors (LGA 1718) B650E PCIe 5.0 Dual 10G Lan

Pros: -nice form factor for smaller builds great for homelab servers -10gbe supports rdma and network io virtualization -pcie 5 x16 lane slot, x4 slots are not shared with anything else thansk to B760E chipset -has out of band management

Cons: -out of band management (BMC) can have issues with network ports making the network ports fail randomly -uses more power thanks to the out of band management always being on (extra 12 watts) -gets hotter than other boards (probably because of built in network chips and oob management using the network chips) -can't use hdmi or display port to install an operating system. you must use the vga or html console over network connection

Overall Review: Update, I have sadly had to scrap the entire lab and move to more stable systems after having the network ports just randomly switch to 100m after a set amount of time... support was very quick to offer some suggestions but after several replies back they have gone silent. moving back to a shared storage solution as a vsan with randomly failing network ports will is frustrating. I cannon recommend these for any use as you seem to roll the dice on the motherboard quality. I am using this for a hci based homelab. using esxi and vsan. out of the 3 motherboards all of them were able to boot up and run execpt one of them the 10gbe ports are only able to function at 1gbe contacted support and was able to get a response quickly however they were not able to provide any useful troubleshooting. after exhausting a few days of my own troubleshooting I determined it must be a manufacturing error as the other two identical systems work correctly. doing an RMA on it and hoping to get a working system in return. more power efficient and quieter than used dell servers however not as efficient or as small as the asrock deskmeet mini servers they replaced (they do have tons more io though)

12/21/2023

Purchased 3 or these for all flash vsan cluster

Intel P4510 8TB PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe U.2 2.5-inch Enterprise SSD - SSDPE2KX080T851
Intel P4510 8TB PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe U.2 2.5-inch Enterprise SSD - SSDPE2KX080T851

Pros: arrived on time fast even at older nvme speeds. not sure if they are used or how many hours are on them would be nice if the seller notated this.

Cons: was able to update the firmware with the windows version of the solidigm tools, the usb version of the tools did not see the drive though.

Overall Review: it does work and it does work at the speeds and capacity listed. runs hot and uses about 15w of power

11/12/2023

Great card

Kingston Elite Pro 32GB Compact Flash (CF) Flash Card Model CF/32GB-S2
Kingston Elite Pro 32GB Compact Flash (CF) Flash Card Model CF/32GB-S2

Pros: This card works great with my Canon 5Dm2 no problems with video, or taking raw+jpeg pictures... now I don't have to worry about keeping 3 or 4 cf cards with me when I am traveling..

Cons: none so far.... I have used it for about 3 months

still don't have the product

CORSAIR 4GB (2 x 2GB) 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Dual Channel Kit Laptop Memory Model VS4GSDSKIT667D2
CORSAIR 4GB (2 x 2GB) 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Dual Channel Kit Laptop Memory Model VS4GSDSKIT667D2

Pros: I hope this allows me to run my laptop at 3.5 gb

Cons: newegg now uses dhl, what used to take one day to get thing from NJ to MD now takes a week through DHL after they got it to withing 5mi from my house they decided to send it through the mail ( of course I do not recieve mail at my physical address so who knows if I will ever get this item.) Newegg has really made a bad choice in shipping companies and this may prevent me from using them in the future.. also with the demise of there return policy (everything now seems to be return for exchange within 30days)

Overall Review: I used to enjoy shopping at newegg looks like the good old days are over...

ONLY use this drive for heavy reads

OCZ Apex Series 2.5" 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSD2-1APX120G
OCZ Apex Series 2.5" 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) OCZSSD2-1APX120G

Pros: This is a great drive if you have an application that you are going to be doing lots of reads from.

Cons: This drive is not very suitable for a laptop. (get a Vertex or intel drive) I had to replace it with a vertex and the vertex is awsome. still too much money, too many tweaks required to get working just ok.

Overall Review: I am planning to use this drive as a drive to store my video games that have to load lots of files into memory/graphics but do not do many writes... this should be a great drive for that purpose.