Recent content by Karl Austin

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    qsfp+ switch seems too good to be true

    Same. Much easier having ports at the back along with the ports for the servers. Makes cable management massively easy compared to running from front to back.
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    qsfp+ switch seems too good to be true

    A power supply, fan tray and network operating system to start with :) Much, as this isn't complete. No. These are QSFP+ ports, you can get a QSFP+ to 4 x SFP+ to connect up your 10GE, but anything copper is out of luck unless you mess around with a QSA adaptor to convert QSFP+ to SFP - and...
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    Arista 7050QX-32 $450 incl shipping 2 available

    Kingspec ones work fine with them. I have some in a testbed.
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    WD100EMAZ + QNAP nas anyone?

    Just put a pair of them (for now) in to a TS-932X and they were recognised. It's essential the same NAS but with different motherboard/cpu I believe. So I'd expect them to work.