appreciate the offer, but I'm good. I ordered an LSI 9260CV-8i, the CV stands for CacheVault Flash Cache Protection. So I don't need a battery. it's got a capacitor bank for hold a charge to the next boot to write to the disks... I'm also kicking myself for no pulling the trigger on the server I was...

I might have to rethink Windows 10 with the LSI 9261-8i Raid controller.. it seems windows wince 20H1 the drivers have not been working. and looking at Broadcoms website official support ended with Win10 SR2 which was ages ago. I use Win Server 2012 for my home server but don't think I'd want to hav...

ya, it's shortage has been weird and in waves... I was at my local shop last week for an SSD and there shelved were packed. but other places were bairn.

Vin

whoa, going all out with that board. nice

for the OS, i'm a keep it simple guy... it'll just be Win10 Pro and then I virtualize the remainder. Then I set the virtual machines to start on windows boot. I have a VMWare Workstation v10 license (2015 version era). With it you can run multiple environments at the same time. If you want to keep t...

haha.. gotcha

Right now, this is the server I have MB - Gigabyte X58A-UD5 CPU - Intel i7-980x RAM - 6x3GB - 24GB DDR3 @ 1600mhz GPU - nVidia 210 Storage - 120GB SSD for OS, 240GB SSD for Virtual Machines, 2x2TB in RAID0 for Data, 2x2TB in RAID0 for backup, 2x500GB RAID1 for Misc info (using OB MB RAID controller ...

Nice. was the upgrade as big of an improvement as you;d hoped?

Vin

I picked up Forza 5, I've never been a fan of the series. I've always preferred Gran Turismo and Need For Speed... but I've not been interested in consoles in a long time and truth be told the only reason I have a PS/PS2/PS3 was because of the GT series.. NFS was nice as it transitioned to PC but th...

the SAGA of the EK LED continues. I received my replacement strip. glad I checked it before breaking everything down and replacing it... it had the same issues...

they're sending me a few more in hopes 1 is OK...

Vin