Recent content by Brian Puccio

Definitely quick rails. Nice!

The more expensive rails have ball bearing slides so once mounted, you can slide the server out, do some work, slide it back in. No need to re-rack. Static rails don’t move. You either put the server in or you take the server out.

If this means prices of 18TB SAS drives go down a bit, I can upgrade from my 14TB drives soon.

Use code tags so your text doesn’t get mangled with eomojis, curly quotes, etc. foo bar baz plex:plex

I thought it was the opposite?

I have 8 of those from that seller running as four mirrors in my proxmox host. Very happy with them and in my very limited knowledge, they do seem to be one of the few SAS enterprise SSDs at decent prices.

Same. I’ve only looked at this thread a dozen times and thought about the switches I could get to let me use those 10g SFP ports since my current switch only has 4 and they’re all used.

In short, yes. IIRC, they both launched around the same time — the late 90s — and ADR didn’t make it very far.

If we’re going to use health analogies, a better one might be “you can get cancer and keep on living, but your chances of dying just went up drastically, even with chemo”.

I wanted to pop back in here and thank @Almighty as well. I received the Supermicro 3.5 to 2.5 toolless drive adapters and they look completely unused. On top of that, I was expecting adapters I’d put in my current 3.5 drive caddies, but these were brand new 3.5 drive caddies with the toolless...

The MCP-220-00118-0B take some of the thicker enterprise 2.5 SSDs still, right? For $12 I will take the gamble. PM on the way.

PM sent on SSDs.

USDA Certified Prime SSD

This post says an R710’s iDRAC uses 13 watts when the server is off.

The sticker on the chassis seems to indicate the motherboard is an X11SSL: https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/X11SSL It could be this server: https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/chassis/1U/813/SC813MFTQC-350CB