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    Switch Recommendations for apartment

    QNAP QSW-M1208-8C would give you a lot of flexibility with 4 * 10GbE SFP+ ports and 8 * 10GbE SFP+/RJ45 combo ports, the combo ports are NBASET and support from 100M to 10G including 1G, 2.5G and 5G Andrew
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    NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Launched Cheaper Arm and Ampere

    I noticed on the Auvidea site in their shop the Quad carrier Xavier board now states Orin NX compatibility Link This could possibly suggest that other dev boards that are Xavier NX and nano compatible may also be compatible with the Orin Nano and NX - The Seeed Studio Mate board would make an...
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    MaxLinear Panther III is a Fake DPU at FMS 2022

    Unbelievably they won an award : MaxLinear Panther III Receives Flash Memory Summit 2022 Most Innovative Flash Memory Enterprise Business Application Makes a mockery of the whole award process
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    AMD Ryzen 7000 and Zen 4 Launch

    So the competition between Intel and AMD is heating up which is mirrored both by the increase in chip pricing and the ever increasing power envelope - I think idle and low load power consumption is going to be an increasingly important metric in processor selection moving forward. Andrew
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    Intel QuickAssist Adapter Thread

    I just happened to be looking at the Netgate site today - perhaps I could sense an impending Netgate article creating a disturbance in the force - anyways I noticed that Netgate has the "Netgate CPIC-8955 Cryptographic Accelerator Card with QAT" the link to their shop page with the details is...
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    Intel QuickAssist Adapter Thread

    Silicom have 6 models of Intel based adapters Silicom plus I was looking at 2 lines from the previous generation thePE3ISCO and the PE2ISCO Advantech currently have 2 Intel based cards Advantech Andrew
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    Elpida Memory Part Number Decode

    I think the "L" stands for Load reduced ECC and "B" stands for 1.5v plus according to this Intel document (Link) it has a Density per Die of 4Gb and x4 width so those may either correspond to the two digits "67" or the 4Gb die density to the "J" Andrew
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    QSFP28 100G to differents speeds like 40Gb

    Do you need something more capable and with more 100G ports than the FS S8550-6Q2c. Andrew
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    [WTB] HP Z620 side panel key

    If they are the ones with the hollow circular key then I remember that in days of old you used to be able to open them with the non-writing end of a BIC-biro pen - maybe by the time of the new fangled HP-Z620 they had got round to updating security
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    Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 is the Exciting Building Block for Disaggregation

    Perhaps we can get some of those old fashioned CXL 2 memory modules from SK Hynix, Micron and Samsung filtering down into the home lab space now /s
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    Next-Gen Supermicro SSG-121P-NES24R 1U 24-bay NVMe at FMS 2022

    I'm trying to figure out why the video defaults to Portuguese subtitles for me
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    Solidigm D7-P5520 7.68TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD Review on x86 Arm and Power9

    I thought that was talked about in the article plus the importance that Solidigm rectify this before PCIe Gen5 makes it into the mainstream.
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    Where to buy Ampere Altra CPUs?

    The cheapest barebones I have seen has been for a Gigabyte E252-P30 (CTO option) with the lowest spec Ampere Altra Q32-17 Processor and 8GB RAM with no storage at £4k in the UK and around $4.6k in the US - I've also kept an eye out for the old ThunderX2 motherboards as ThunderX2 procs are...
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    Arctic P8 or other consumer fan for 2U Supermicro chassis?

    Numbers : Artic F8's push quite a bit more air (31 CFM/ 52.7 m³/h) than P8's (23.4 CFM / 40.3 m³/h) and for comparison the Noctua NF-A8 PWM pushes (32 CFM / 55.5 m³/h ) but these are all way off the SM FAN-0094L4 (90.3 CFM/153.4 m³/h) However : as Markess pointed out these cases were specified...
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    Kioxia CM7 PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD Launches with Incredible Speeds

    I would love for the NVMEoF version to become the standard - then local storage will be seen as a very 20th century peculiarity.