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So I am bumping this as I see these are available for ~10 USD here NEW Dell EMC S28-10G-25G-SR-85C Transceiver Module 0M14MK overnight | eBay Do anyone know how the compatibility is with Mellanox 25G nics?

Run everything in a VM. Then zfs snapshot & send.

The average price I have paid for 8TB hard drives the last 18 months is around 30USD ea. Seriously, there is a huge amount of almost 10 years old 8TB hard drives on Ebay. Just wait and the will be a price crash. There are still plenty of those 3 years old 14TB Toshiba drives for 80 USD

I think 50usd for 8tb is too expensive.

You do not need a hba that supports host managed smr, it should work with any controller. All you need to know is here: Overview | Zoned Storage

100MB/s sync writes is actually very good. Compared to Samsung 990 PRO which does 5-10MB/s sync writes

Yes, because slog is about latency. You want fsync to happen as fast as possible.

These are supercheap and goes for like 5 USD ea. Excellent SLOG devices.

The performance difference between Broadwell and Skylake is negligible. I run like 20 different services, and a dual socket 14 core Intel 2690 v4 is plenty. I have a Ryzen 7950x as my workstation, with 40GbE fiber to my single server. My next upgrade will probably be a Ryzen 9950x and a RTX...

These are still available, I guess Epyc is a lot more attractive platform.

There are plenty of cheap VGA monitors on ebay

Would it not be easier to just benchmark nginx with tls?

yes, as you will have a lot more available memory bandwidth

But they support ktls? That makes them super awesome

I just want to share a issue I had with a X10DRL-I that I bought on Ebay that would not start bios as it was corrupted and I couldn't enter ipmi to flash the bios there. As there wasn't much info on Google on how to fix this I figured I could share it here. I fixed this by create a fat32 usb...

The discussion should be, why doesnt every computer come with ECC by default. Even for workstations/desktop/laptop I want ECC.

And for those who would like a Mellanox ConnectX 6 for only 200 USD MCX653105A-ECAT Mellanox InfiniBand HDR100/Ethernet 100Gb 1-port 940QSFP56 Ada | eBay

Supermicro as a company stands for great values. They're the best vendor when it comes to knowledge sharing.

In bios/controller settings, you can set the device to jbod. Works great! I run several X10drh-ct with ZFS

My calculations are based on Norwegian energy prices, which is on average significantly lower than EU. SAS drives consumes more than 5watt, more like 7-9watt