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    Gigabyte R180-F34 1U Server (2011-3) $94-109 + Shipping

    I just happen to have a spare chassis that has a single E5-2630L with 16GB (2x8gb) and an Intel 3500 80GB ssd. No other PCI cards installed. According to my Kill-A-Watt and the IPMI power management, the server at boot with fans running full is around 185 watts. With the fans set to the...
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    HGST 8TB SAS HUH728080AL5200

    Mine show 7.28TB in the Freenas 11.3 GUI after it was added to a pool. I did notice that same thing and the size of 7.15TB did not change until I put the disk into a pool. The first one I used, I created a dummy pool with one disk and after it was created the GUI updated to the correct size of...
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    Gigabyte R180-F34 1U Server (2011-3) $94-109 + Shipping

    I have 2 of these systems and did update the BIOS and BMC. Also have the v1.0 boards as well. Just checked one of them and I appear to have used the 4.88 BMC firmware version and R16 BIOS when I updated mine.
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    Gigabyte R180-F34 1U Server (2011-3) $94-109 + Shipping

    Currently just a single E5-2620v3 and a single 8GB stick of ram until the rest of the parts arrive later this week:)
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    Gigabyte R180-F34 1U Server (2011-3) $94-109 + Shipping

    I don't have a SM SQ series to compare it to. I just received cpu/memory to power mine on yesterday and after the BIOS and BMC were updated, I was able to use the PWM offset setting under utilities in the BMC to slow the fans. Currently most fans are running either 2k or 3k rpms. The BMC...