Recent content by casperghst42

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    HP Elitedesk 800 G4 - keeping it cool

    Interesting, currently I have 80mm USB fans blowing at the front - which does help a bit. The alu block solution sounds like a good way to start, I will see if I can source something around here - otherwise I'll try with the drive tray fan. Thanks.
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    HP Elitedesk 800 G4 - keeping it cool

    Hi, I have an HP Elitedesk 800 G4 (also got an G5) with 2 NvMEs (Proxmox ZFS mirror), I've noticed that the NvME sometimes get very hot, and the performance drop. How do other people running these things with 2 NvMEs keep them cool ? Thanks.
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    HP EliteDesk 800 G3 Mini Additional Built-in NIC

    I only have a G4 and a G5 - I suspect that the G3 have more space as the slot is turned 90 degrees in the G4/G5.
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    HP EliteDesk 800 G3 Mini Additional Built-in NIC

    I might have been too fast, I have both an G4 and an G5. With either if you have to lean the board against the nvme if you use a full length nvme - I just opened my G4 to add an extra nic to it (which was DOA), but I think there was slightly more space in the G5 than in the G5. As for the...
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    HP EliteDesk 800 G3 Mini Additional Built-in NIC

    You can get some brass threaded inserts (M3) so that you can fix the ethernet port to the printed part. I didn't bother but will add it later (when I get some of these inserts). Otherwise it just worked out of the box, I use it for my firewall (pfSense) running under proxmox.
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    HP EliteDesk 800 G3 Mini Additional Built-in NIC

    I figured it out, found an old video by @Patrick where he states that the FlexIO v1 ethernet port is an USB ethernet port, which is not interesting. I found an Intel 210AT (Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter M.2 A E I210AT Single Port Gigabit | eBay) NIC which works, I just had to modify the...
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    My Customised SFF Home Server Build

    I'm envious about the HD prices, here (Denmark) I have to pay close to 400€ for an 16TB WD Gold disk.
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    HP EliteDesk 800 G3 Mini Additional Built-in NIC

    They have relocated the A+E connector in Elitedesk 800 G4, anyone found an intel based card which fits in it ?
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    The Latest N100&I3-N305 NAS BOARD

    I would not call them NAS boards, they are more desktop MBs with 4 network interfaces. I'd like to see the Audio, DP and HDMI go, and then get IPMI, then it would be intersting. I know that the N series does not support ECC, but no matter what people say I do like to have ECC in my nas/server...
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    ZFS vs. BTRFS: Safest Choice for Dummies?

    I've been running a raid6 setup for +10 years and until now the only problem I've had is 2 dead drives (3 years apart). I have exclusively used it with ext4. To my recollection I have never said that there was anything wrong with ZFS, I just don't see that there is a reason for me to use it...
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    ZFS vs. BTRFS: Safest Choice for Dummies?

    Some people like to collect data, in my case I like to keep my photos which goes back +20 years. And my music (ripped CDs). That is a very good reason for having raid(6) and offsite backup. Raid is not backup, but it is a good thing if you loose a disk (or two).
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    ZFS vs. BTRFS: Safest Choice for Dummies?

    A possibly unpopular sugestion: mdadm + lvm2 - Synology is actually using mdadm for raid and put btrfs on top of it.
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    CWWK/Topton/... Nxxx quad NIC router

    Which exactly board is this one - I am also intersted in the console redirection ?
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    Switchadvice POE+, 2.5G and at least 4xSFP+

    The major difference between the QNAP and the Draytek is the POE budget, QNAP is 280w and Draytek is 400w - just from that perspective the Draytek is more interesting.
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    Low Power 10 Gigabit NVMe server?

    I do think Patrick did a review of that adapter with the HP Mini Server G10 (??), while it works one have to remember that it is a x4 card, to get full 10GbE you need x2 which leaves you x1 for each NVME - that might be enough for you, but it is a limitation.