Recent content by JimPhreak

@Skud & @briandm81 I'm really liking the X0152 (non-POE) so far. Right now I only have about 12 of the 1Gb ports populated and none of the SFP+ ports populated but the noise is not too bad. I did take some measurements with a dB meter app on my phone but keep in mind it's hard for me to get...

@MiniKnight I appreciate your opinion on LimeTech's business practices but it's becoming a bit repetitive at this point. Your points have been duly noted.

UnRAID is capable of writing at 10Gb speeds to an SSD cache pool. Just some food for thought.

I'm very torn between the 1508 and the 1518 for my storage server build. I tend to get more than I need for future expansion/flexibility which makes me lean towards the 1518 but the 1508 price is very attractive.

We've got a price! $467 for the 1508 and $586 for the 1518. So just over $100 savings. Super Micro MBDX10SDV-2C-7TP4F-O Mbd-X10sdv-2c-7tp4f-Single. Super Micro MBDX10SDV-4C-7TP4F-O X10sdv-4c-7tp4f Single Fcbga 1667 Max-128gb Ddr4 Atx. And here is the whole lot of boards ShopBLT has. Product...

Any link to his listing? Can't seem to find it.

120v and 900-1000w is what I'm looking at. Should power my upcoming Xeon D vSAN cluster fine.

Ok I think I'm going to go with a rack mount UPS since I've decided to purhase a rack cabinet for sure. What's a good price on a used UPS on eBay?

Wow the dimensions of that rack cabinet look IDEAL! I too am worried about the cooling though. Hopefully someone else with some experience cooling small rack cabinets can chime in on this. That's a very interesting idea. I looked hard at that StarTech cabinet because I do really like the...

That's an interesting idea. I just purchased an X1052 which has way more copper ports than I will probably ever have use for. Your idea, while costing significantly more, would offer a great mix of copper and SFP+ ports.

That's a 1557 though which is a lower clock speed 12 core. I'm looking for an 8-12 core with a clock speed of 2.0GHz +.

Is SM not releasing any 1541 or 1567 boards at all? I doesn't seem like they have any higher frequency CPU options (besides the 1587) on the newer boards with SFP+ onboard.

Will do. Sound will indeed be something I pay close attention to. I will monitor the sound levels with no ports connected and then once again after I have all 4 SFP+ ports and about 12 1Gb ports populated.

Just purchased an X1052 for $495 shipped last night :D.

I looked at the X4012 and it's a nice looking switch. I don't need that many SFP+ ports at this moment but I'm sure I will a year or 2 from now and I think it will be a great switch to add along side the X1052 I have coming.