Recent content by itronin

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    Need you Opinion on a SC846

    It has been entertaining (and educational and nostalgic) to read how this thread has twisted and turned. :D
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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.