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Looking for an HBA with 8 or 16 internal SAS ports. LSI-9300-16i is ideally what I'm looking for.

Without giving away too much info, I'm most of the way through my OMSCS degree. KBAI is my last required class for my degree.

I heard so many good reviews about KBAI. I was looking forward to taking this class because of all the reviews I've seen about how good Joyner is. But holy $%^& this class is awful. Two of our assignments so far have been students beta testing research projects. And it looks like another one coming up is just the same.

For example:

A recently lab was essentially: Use this LLM bot that's intended to connect students on Ed. Now, write up a 1 semester plan of how to improve this bot, including time frames and what needs to be fixed when. The bot doesn't work most of the time, and you can opt out of it, but we won't tell you how to opt out until 2 days before the assignment is due. Oops.

The one due next uses a piece of educational software called VERA, which simulates ecological systems, as a vehicle to apply that topic. Students play the role of a first-time user, then critique that representation from both a technical AI perspective and a usability perspective, and then sketch an architecture for a KBAI chatbot that would help new users navigate the software.

This is just having students beta test your software and come up with ideas for you. You're just crowdsourcing your research project under the guise of "education".

I took this class to learn things. Not to be a free beta tester for your software. Do better, GATech.

EDIT: I'm not sure if it was just a happy coincidence or if this post was the final straw, but the "beta testing" labs have been moved to participation grade and other assignments have been added in place. These new ones look much more relevant to lectures.

REDMOND, WA -- In a bold move to streamline its communications and bypass the traditional tech press altogether, Microsoft announced Tuesday that all future Windows updates and software features will be unveiled exclusively via their corresponding Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) numbers.

"We realize that our users are busy, and waiting for an annual developer conference just to hear about a cool new feature is outdated," said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, speaking from an encrypted bunker. "By baking our upcoming generative AI tools, cloud integrations, and interface overhauls directly into high-severity security exploits, we ensure that IT administrators see them first --usually at 3:00 AM on a Sunday while their servers are actively melting."

The tech giant kicked off the initiative with the rollout of CVE-2026-8841, a critical remote code execution vulnerability that, when fully exploited by state-sponsored actors, automatically pins an un-removable Microsoft Copilot widget to the user's taskbar.

According to Microsoft's updated patch notes, the new delivery system offers unprecedented integration. For instance, an arbitrary directory traversal flaw in the Windows Kernel (CVE-2026-9012) is actually the hidden delivery mechanism for an exciting new "Smart Scrapbook" feature that automatically backs up a user's unencrypted tax documents directly to a public GitHub repository.

"It’s all about meeting the consumer where they are," Nadella added. "And right now, they are frantically trying to figure out why their entire corporate network is screaming."

At press time, Microsoft developers were reportedly celebrating the successful launch of a major OneDrive storage upgrade, which went live after a buffer overflow vulnerability allowed a teenage hacker in Belarus to copy 40 petabytes of random family vacation photos onto the company's main servers.

(Thanks to /u/hadrabap for the inspiration)

Looking for a PCIe HBA in IT mode with at least 10 ports.

Currently have a primary proxmox server with 2 pools of 4 hard drives each:

• 4x8TB in RAID5
• 4x14TB in MergerFS with SnapRAID

I just picked up 4x18TB drives on a good deal, and I'm trying to figure out the best way to approach this.

My server currently has an HBA 8i card, and I have 8 of the 10 available slots in my server chassis filled with drives.

The server is primarily a jellyfin server, as well as bulk storage for my Frigate instance.

Should I keep my drives in the main server chassis, and just transfer the data from the 8TB drives to the 18TB drives one at a time, rebuilding the RAID storage in between each one?

Or, should I get a rack-mounted dedicated drive chassis? I have a spare Mobo, CPU, RAM, I'd just need to get a case and an HBA card.

Any ideas are appreciated. Let me know if you have any questions or things I need to clarify on :)

Looking for two things: Looking for some sort of rack mount that can hold up to 12 drives. Open to NAS, JBOD rack, etc. Local is Huntsville, AL.

Also looking for a SATA SSD. 500G-1T preferred.