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One might say that WD's most recent product positioning marketing efforts regarding the Red products line are as useful putting lipstick on a pig as far as brand recovery goes.;)

submit ebay claim as DOA. they will force seller to accept return

start by checking components shorts

relevant discussion: https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/decent-deal-on-used-1500va-ups-2nd-batch.27734/

nice find and a great deal.

I still rock FreeNAS (never needed FC specifically) but I learned the hard way, be VERY wary of their updates as they have a long history of breaking things in updates. Sometimes intentionally with advance warnings, sometimes not. The storage system shouldn't be Russian roulette. Like...

Maybe RasPi doesn't use a standard keyboard/mouse interface or the OS in any case. One thing I could mention is Spider had published html5 kvm firmware for this little guy and then for some reason pulled it. Can't stand Java one.

Micron reported higher than expected demand this quarter. This alone could be massive indicator to change of memory/flash storage consumption - I'd love to hear more about this trend...

what's the expected use of this desktop? It's dog slow.

I curious to know if this module would work with this board to double the max memory to 128gb https://www.provantage.com/hp-6fr90at~7CMPI1A8.htm I guess it is very likely.

Yes, I think Rand found the real culprit here. Turn-Off sync writes to test this idea, but in general, windows10 is much happier on SSD

Before joining this community I never fathomed that 10g in home labs is SO widespread around these parts and there are plenty of (NEED) use cases for 10gig in home labs and large capacity LINUX ISOs storage systems. In my case, my home-lab small 3 node HCI runs miles better on 10gig. What still...

one more good test on budget hardware: https://blog.kroy.io/2019/11/21/battle-of-the-bare-metal-routers/

I'll refer you to this thread: https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/vyos-10gbe-router.27813/

Write cache isn't used in IT mode, so getting a raid controller with batteries then flashing it to IT mode would be pointless. Then you added SSD for ZIL, all the writes go to it first, making it "sort of" a write cache.