Recent content by itronin

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    Need you Opinion on a SC846

    oh I routinely get 7-10 years on enterprise gear in an enterprise - when its bought new but I'm not thinking about what if 5 years down the road, I simply expect it to work ( unless I'm using vmware :p ). 5-7 when used. I'm just saying for homelab, why think that far out, if it lasts great...
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    Need you Opinion on a SC846

    2-3 years is a lifecycle pretty far in the future to be worried about for my homelab, office, or even enterprise in my experience - way too, too many variables and sea change that can occur in that period. and way too much stress for me. I worry about what's just over the horizon, 6 or 12...
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    Rack question

    Throwback to the mid-late '90's and stacks of headless sparcstation 10's running sunos and penitum 90 PC's running FreeBSD.
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    Need you Opinion on a SC846

    that sounds about right.
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    Updating the HGST HDD & SSD firmware

    not saying this thread describes your problem - but you might look here typically you'll want to post smart from the drive (yeah SAS, not gonna report everything, its probably enough and a start) as well as the exact commands and sequence you used.
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    [FS ][US-NJ] Lots of 7.68TB Enterprise SATA SSD

    received, thanks for the storage!
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    WTB low health HDD / SSD in qty

    Hows about posting in the WTB forum rather than here. Also recommend you read the sticky in the WTB forum.
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    World's Smallest Server Rack

    Mine were not neutered and also included a note, and an origami helmet. delightful!
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    World's Smallest Server Rack

    Mine arrived yesterday. have not opened it. Also interesting that you received the balls with yours. I'll see if mine were neutered or not. :eek: my previous orders were. :rolleyes:
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    EXPIRED 50-65% health 3.84TB Netapp SAS SSD - ebay - $130

    for me it would also depend on the use case - local storage - pump up the IOPS . Feed the beast. network shared storage - I'd look at my max bandwidth, number of clients, and then the client use case. This method also presumes you have sufficient capacity for your needs regardless of how...
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    World's Smallest Server Rack

    My set three has shipped from Japan and arrived in Cali so maybe this week...
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    World's Smallest Server Rack

    anyone want to share a pne3 link on the bay? my search skills seem to be abysmal this evening and the sellers of the tarlin kits that I saved aren't listing it yet.
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    Supermicro JBOD serial numbers

    Edited for correctness! or the third party one from @TheGuyDanish . He designed a nice jbod board and you should already have the expander backplanes so its really just monitoring and power control in the jbod.
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    EXPIRED Precision 7820 Tower, dual Silver 4110, 32gb, 1tb ssd, P600 $349 shipped

    My understanding is that the speed of the main memory needs to match the speed of the optane dcpmem which should be the "A" series for the 7820 and that is 2666. I have a similar upgrade for my T7820 - dual 6244 and optanes. I did not see the note on the 7920 and was in fact hoping to use it...