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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

6TB for 31 USD each is not a deal. The problem with smaller hard drives is energy cost. You're way better off getting a few 14TB hard drives for 100USD. My spreadsheet says that even for 10 USD each, you will get less value for you money compared to 14TB hard drives for 100 USD.

I am waiting for one, would love to have a STH guide for installing SONiC on these

I prefer copper DAC, as they have slightly better latency

A 3way mirror for special vdev will have 6 copies of your metadata. Unless you have redundant_metadata=none. In my opinion that is way overkill.