Struggling to configure my home-lab setup and hoping to get some guidance if possible. My configuration is a 3 server setup, 2 Windows based machines and my FreeNAS box. I have all three connected via SFP+ with a single port 10g card in each windows machine and a dual port in my FreeNAS...

I have one Supermicro set up that I am attempting to resurrect. Everything works great except, regardless of which version I try, it won't recognize the the Intel HBA in the chasis. The other network adapters are fine, but after seeing 10G networking I really want to get things pumping through...

The plan was to have 10g link between my workstation and NAS. For this i am using the Gigabyte MB10-DS4 motherboard on the server side, it has 2 SFP+ ports running on Intel x552 For my workstation i'm using a card from a manufacturer called uptimed.nl . It's an Intel x520 da2 under the hood...

I've run FreeNAS for a number of years now on a very low power AMD E-350 CPU, 16GB DDR3 non ECC RAM, and only the capability of 4 onboard SATA, and limited expansion via 1x PCIe slots after adding a dual port Intel Nic. Great part is it consumes only about 20w with the 4 x 2TB drives. I've kept...