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I noticed as drive sizes gets bigger and bigger; it is becoming harder and harder to fill up disks. Perhaps, it is better to have large disk arrays and keep the disk count high for higher I/O bandwidth. I am not interested in with Random I/O but even for sequential I/O bandwidths seems to be...

I just got this motherboard. It comes with 2x Silver 4109T CPUs. Physically looks perfect. IPMI works but cannot login. Seller does not know the IPMI password and I am not sure where the default IPMI password is located. I am about to thrash it but I wanted to check here if there are any ideas...

Can you please share your experience and which forwarder do you use? I am looking for US domestic forwarding service so better if you use it for the same purpose.

$70 + S/H each is the price I am considering. They are at 100%. Open for offers. See the pictures for details on each of them and I have bunch of other items for sale and I am also looking for some parts myself to trade. See my other post for the other items and parts to trade.

I am playing around pre-production quanta server with ES cpus. The server is same as: https://www.anandtech.com/show/14694/amd-rome-epyc-2nd-gen/5. The server is super noisy :) Fans spin down but still very noisy. I have a similar Quanta d51 which was very quiet. When I checked the BIOS, I...

I acquired some HGST 10TB host managed SMR drives. I am able to access these drives and verify that they are recognized as host managed block device. I am using BTRFS to format them but format is failing with an I/O error. There is no obvious error in dmesg. With very few online guides here...

I get a hold onto host managed SMR drives. I didn't know that these drives also need controller support. I am planning to use them in a NetAPP disk shelves. Ubuntu sees the drive but btrfs cannot format it because HBA does not support host managed SMR. Is there an hba that supports host managed...

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I wanted to recap my understanding of what happened in the processor world and what is happening now. As new processors are coming to market, I was trying to make sense out of what is going on. Over time we saw lots of major shifts like shifting from CISC to RISC, heavy pipelining and...

I have sold and bought many items here. Several items from this thread is sold. :) Open for offers. I will high level list to start with but inquire me for more details. I am inclined to make a quick list but happy to provide lots of details if there is interest. Shipping and fees are not...

As I said no more x10 motherboards, they just keep on pulling me back in: https://www.ebay.com/itm/175568233689?mkevt=1&mkpid=0&emsid=e11060.m43.l3160&mkcid=26&ch=osgood&euid=09e007a08d3f492e819d6ce0c02edd51&bu=43179041242&osub=-1%7E1&crd=20231021181849&segname=11060 Seller accepts $140 on the...

https://pasteboard.co/eV7mNMav2bP6.jpg When I align the groove, cpu is not aligned with the carrier. I cannot figure out what is going

I have 2 2U Supermicro servers which have been staying in the storage. Looking for any offer to find homes for them. If there is interest, I will put the pictures of the actual servers: 1. Supermicro CSE-216 24 LFF bays 2U 2XOpteron 6380 32GB Memory $100+ shipping No caddies, 2x power supplies...

I see there are a few 846s on ebay and they are quite expensive ($650+) I understand 846s very much preferred as nas servers but isn't this kind of extreme? Is this all because full size expansion slots?

These are heavy items so I am mostly interested in for pick up locally from 98052 but if you want them to be shipped, please ping. I have the boxes but not sure S/H costs worth for it. I have 2 of these APC SUA1500RM2U. I removed the battery from one of them and the other one is with weak...

Ubuntu has a built in file cache which is mostly automatic and greatly helps with performance. I am running an application whose performance highly sensitive to memory access speeds and application is running on a 2 socket solution. Application is using GPU and memory and finally outputs to a...

This has been discussed several times but I was not able to see any post related to using consumer router, it is mostly about using custom software solution. I want to set up a simple OpenVPN server to reach my network when I am abroad. At least initially, I want to get it started by using the...

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I am combining multiple disks via merger.fs. This used to work without any issues on Debian. Recently, I need to switch to Ubuntu 22.04. I am having this problem when I tried to use merger.fs on ubuntu. - If I started merger.fs via mount -a from /etc/fstab, no one including root can access to...

Supermicro x10DRi Motherboard + 2x 2620v3 CPU + 128GB DDR4 memory $260+ PayPal fees ECC RDIMMs: 4x 16GB DDR4 2666 ECC RDIMM HMA82GR7AFR4N $64+ Paypal Fees 8x 16GB DDR4 2400 ECC RDIMM m393a2k40bb1-crc $105 + Paypal Fees 16* 8GB DDR4 2133 ECC RDIMM $85 + Paypal Fees 8* 8GB DDR4 2400 ECC RDIMM $50...