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Originally Posted by Phoenix32
All well and good, but let's not get the forum in trouble in the process eh? In other words, not be so blatant about your request to people.
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Or even the latest free update. I'm on 3.4.790 (US)
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It's called economics. See? I can be condescending too.
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I honestly had no idea that was condescending to anyone. Definately not the intent.
I was pretty much trying to get an understanding of the 4100's nomenclature, not piss in your cornflakes.
4 120's in raid 5 = 336,731 ( I'm looking at it now)
a Snap 4100 /300 I have only has 4 70 gigs, which would be raid 0. ( and cheezy at that)
Snap 4100 / 120 appears to have 4 30's. again raid 0
So, I expected the snap 480 to contain 4 120's in raid 0 configuration. ( and I just built one like that)
But then I ran across the factory 160 part number and thought, ah ha! It's really 4 160's in raid 5! which totally blew my previous understanding.
So, I guess that factory 480 was designated 4x120 at R/0? or is it 4x160 at R/5 and damn the fact we didn't include LBA-48?
I would personally NEVER put data I cared about on a striped array, unless it was mirrored as well. 0+1
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Bottom line, since you are an old hand, the 4100 DOES NOT support LBA 48-bit. Which means data above 137 GB. So yes, they use 160 GB drives, but they format down to 137 GB each (well, close).
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Wouldn't it be 134.2? Isn't the actual calc ((2^28)*512)/1024
Again, just asking.
I certainly didn't want to come into a new forum and start shit. I just need to know the capabilities of these servers, and any hacks that might make them more useful.
Like, wouldn't it rock if we could reflash the bios to include the LBA support for the PDC20265 ASIC's? 1.5 TB R/5 Snap!s would kick ass.
Then throw on some delicately soldered Realtek GB chips, lol. awesome.
further thought on that, does the promise op code reside in flash, or is it on the 70700102-001 chip located by the power supply connector? if it's in the flash, I suppose it would be possible to desolder, read the flash and do a comparison for the old flawed promise code, insert the revised code, and reflash / resolder. then of course recompile the OS, lol. yeah yeah, I'm dreaming, but the thought of cheap terabyte 1u's is irresistable.