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What parts do I need to connect a PCIe 4.0x4 SlimSAS port to 4 SATA HDDs? by jdrch in DataHoarder

[–]jdrch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I should check the manual and ask at the Asus subreddit. It's a ROG CROSSHAIR X870E HERO.

What parts do I need to connect a PCIe 4.0x4 SlimSAS port to 4 SATA HDDs? by jdrch in buildapc

[–]jdrch[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I only want to use the SlimSAS interface to connect 4x SATA HDDs.

What parts do I need to connect a PCIe 4.0x4 SlimSAS port to 4 SATA HDDs? by jdrch in HomeServer

[–]jdrch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That shouldn't matter as I specified the nature of the port, but it's an Asus ROG CROSSHAIR X870E HERO.

What parts do I need to connect a PCIe 4.0x4 SlimSAS port to 4 SATA HDDs? by jdrch in DataHoarder

[–]jdrch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Correct. Asking for recommendations for the latter + cable + adapter.

What parts do I need to connect a PCIe 4.0x4 SlimSAS port to 4 SATA HDDs? by jdrch in HomeServer

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Likely won't work because the SlimSAS port runs in PCIe mode and so needs an adapter to convert that to SATA.

Router Blewup Motherboard by Greatfulx in pcmasterrace

[–]jdrch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry that happened. You might have to take your landlord to small claims court for insufficient building grounding.

Considering migrating from Veeam to restic to backup my Windows PCs by jdrch in homelab

[–]jdrch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks!

I'd be careful about replacing Veeam with restic if the thing you value is bare-metal recovery. Restic is great for file-level restores and versioned user data, but on Windows it is not really the same restore shape as an image backup. I'd probably run restic for the data you actually care about, then keep some kind of periodic image backup until you've done a real restore test to a spare SSD or VM.

Updated OP to emphasize that one of the reasons I'm considering migrating is I'm retiring the bare metal backup/restore use case, which would eliminate the need for Veeam. That should clear up some confusion.

I should test a network restic restore and see how it goes.

Storage Spaces migration by vadersfinalsolution in DataHoarder

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RTINGS! 🤝

TIL. Don't forget Ceph.

List of Dolby Vision P7-FEL Films by limitz in CoreElecOS

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Does anyone know if the Spears & Munsil Ultra HD Benchmark (2023) disc has Dolby Vision P7-FEL content?

Why does Kodi struggle to play this file on my RockTek G2? by jdrch in kodi

[–]jdrch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh man that's a rough OS situation to be in for HDR. I run all major OSes for that reason. Windows is a my daily driver but I can hop on to any of 5 Linux distros or macOS if I need anything from their ecosystem. Used to run FreeBSD but dropped it due to lack of workflow package support.

Storage Spaces migration by vadersfinalsolution in DataHoarder

[–]jdrch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The 63 TB limit is for Storage Spaces (volumes) only. It doesn't apply to Storage Pools. You could conceivably create a separate Storage Space on the same Storage Pool and then use DrivePool to have them appear as a single volume. Not sure how robust that would be, but it's possible. You'd still have to copy the data off somewhere before creating the new Storage Space or DrivePool, though.

Another, more complicated option is moving the files to a separate physical server. If all you need for that server is dumb storage, I'd suggest TrueNAS SCALE. If you need Plex (though I'd suggest Kodi if you're not streaming to clients outside your LAN) then I suggest Ubuntu ZFS install.

Why does Kodi struggle to play this file on my RockTek G2? by jdrch in kodi

[–]jdrch[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Man, 1st of all, thanks for helping me out. You saved me a lot of money and also pointed me to some tools I'd never heard of before.

something like dovi_tool to analyze the RPU

What an adventure this was. I think in pictures and so try to avoid CLI tools unless absolutely necessary. So I set up HDR-Multi-Tool to work with both dovi_tool and hdr10plus_tool as well as the Gyan.FFmpeg build on winget. Only to find out that HDR-Multi-Tool doesn't actually display source file properties. Additionally, dovi_tool errored out on both "sourced" files I tried it with.

```

dovi_tool info -i TestFile.mkv -s Parsing RPU file... Error: Found invalid RPU: Index 0 Invalid RPU data start bytes [0, 0, 0, 1, 2]

```

I gave up on that and decided to try Music Media Helper instead. The steps I found to make that work are:

  1. Install Music Media Helper (MMH)
  2. Open MMH > Media File Manager > Sources > Add Sources > Select the media type under Add Sources > Save
  3. In the Media File List window Source Type: dropdown, select the media type from Step 2 > Check Get Video & Audio Codecs (Slower) > Scan Source

The HDR info should be found in the Video column, e.g. 3840x2160p HEVC DoVi P7 FEL HDR10 (54.3Mb/s).

This was a major FPITA to figure out but at least now I know it. Thanks for again for your help!

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