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I'm not an nVidia user myself but it's damn impressive improvement from a 2080. Extremely good for consumers considering the launch price.

Yes, it's an add in card. As you mentioned, I'll make a backup of the config just in case it decides to not have it. I've also done the same with default values for building the RAID so technically it should be an easy swap! I'll keep that in mind just in case I run into the same issue as you. Thanks to both for the advice.

Hey all, I'd imagine this may be an easy question to answer. I currently have an Intel i5 based server (Windows Server 2016), it's using a Dell PERC H700 RAID card which is controlling my current RAID config (MegaRAID Storage Manager). I'm going to swapping out the motherboard and CPU in the coming weeks to potentially an AMD based system. "Should" this be possible without having to backup and rebuild the RAID configuration or will I certainly run into issues? Thanks in advance.

The case I went with for my NAS build was the Fractal Arc Mini R2, it has space for 8 x 3.5" Drives in the front, 2 SSD's on the back on the motherboard tray, and spots where you'd place optical drives but suppose you could find some drive adapter sleds for those. only drawback is it only supports up to a Micro-ATX MB so may limit how many add-in cards you can run.

Yeah and funny enough looks like it has fixed the issue here also. Thumbs up to Husky.

It's a flat network, no VLAN's. That's a good point, I haven't checked the fast startup on the affected machines. Will give that a shot, thank you!

Hey guys, having a bit of an issue with my Windows Server 2016 AD/DHCP/DNS environment, specifically with issuing an IP address to clients and I'd like some advice or maybe someone knows a fix. Currently, this Windows Server 2016 box runs Active Directory, DHCP and DNS requests to 17 Windows 10-based workstations and the issue comes when our users boot the systems for the first time that day and the server not issuing a valid IP but if that same user does a system reboot then the server will issue a valid IP. It first started a few weeks after this new server was installed, then only one or two systems would not be able to connect but over time it has become more and more systems, then we have to do a quick restart then it would be able to connect. Any thoughts are most appreciated, Thanks.

I did not consider the RAM caching the transfer so yeah maybe there could be a use case for 10g in the seeable future. Yes, you're absolutely right it had crossed my mind to do the upgrade because I can do it and able to do it right now. I'm in a similar situation with my setup as I'd need 2 10g NIC's plus a switch in the middle so it'll set me back in the neighborhood of around £400. As you mentioned it's waiting on other devices to catch up with the 10g interfaces such as TV's, NAS boxes etc. Another component for me is the TV as I run a Plex server and would be nice to steam 4k without hitting the Gigabit transfer limit which happens often but that's just waiting for the tech to catch-up.

Thanks, Yeah you're totally right. Think I'll stick with my current setup Thank again

Thanks for your all inputs, really much appreciated. In all fairness it's more to scratch an itch of "future proofing" if that's really a thing. I'd certainly as mentioned have to do some RAM-disk checks to see if there's a real world benefit. Also the storage itself is only non raid mechanical drives so I'd be limited to their relative read and write speeds. I've problem answered my own question.

Hey guys, I'm currently looking at upgrading part of my network to a 10GBase-T network, its to mostly improve the transfer speeds between my main PC and Windows File server. Is it worth it? I mostly transfer large files between the two amongst other things. The equipment in mind so far is NETGEAR GS110EMX-100UKS and then I'll find some gbe cards for the boxes.

Currently, the router assigns the Server with a static IP just like with the PC. But, I'll certainly take a look at giving the server full control of DHCP.

Specifically, it's an Asus RT-AC68U. As far as the LAN setup goes it's not segmented off so, in theory, it'll all be apart of the same LAN setup. Good question about the assignment of the same IP. I'm sure I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary with the IP address already assigned but I'll take another look to be certain. Has a valid IPP assigned by DHCP, and its certainly in a LAN only port. Yep, same domain.

I'm in need of a fresh mind to point me in the right direction. Also, I apologise for the crudity of the diagram below but it's just for reference purposes My problem is this. I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 machine, when it was initially set up it was directly connected to the switch and so all of its configurations and network SMB shares were setup in that environment. Which everything worked wonderfully, but the server will not live there so as the diagram below shows it's going to live right next to the router but doing so now all network shares are unreachable by the PC that is on the switch. If I connect it back to the switch again it works just as it should. The switch is a D-Link DGS-108 (Unmanaged). Is there anything I'm missing and if you have any questions then fire away. Thanks

Yeah, I'll see if there is any workaround for that. Maybe see if one of my local PC stores could help to loan a CPU while I do the firmware update.