Recent content by kriegspiel

Just wanted to say I received 2x 7551 Epyc CPUs from krylon promptly shipped (domestically) with no issues whatsoever. Thanks!

Ended up declining the offer since I couldn't justify the premium over the 8TB Easy Store. Did anyone else get these disks?

Just got counter-offered $285 each for 2x 12 TB Dell/Toshiba units here: Dell 753F0 12TB Toshiba MG07ACA12TEY 3.5"SATA 6Gb/s 7.2K Hard Drive | eBay

16GB ECC DDR3, but PC3-8500 - I got 6x 16GB (96GB) for $100 a couple of weeks ago: EDGE 96GB (16GBx6)DDR3 PC3-8500R ECC REG Server Memory 16GE604R04 | eBay

Took some finding, but these work in my R210 ii : Centon RD709G01 8GB PC3-10600 ECC Unbuffered DIMM Server RAM | eBay

Domestic shipping isn't that great either - cheapest USPS option is $15.50 to ship 2.

Another S3700 series for $225: Dell Intel 800GB SATA 2.5" SSD SSDSC2BA800G3T | eBay Wonder how they manage to get those kinds of dents in the casing.

For the benefit of plebes like me, how do those of you with access to such exotic stuff in a homelab setting use them? I can see that getting familiar with the hardware and configuration options is useful (and of course, the "because it's there" motivation!), but I'm having a hard time...

Ended up selling the 2U Rackable box and switching to a whisper-quiet ASRock Xeon D-1540 setup over the holiday break. Couldn't be happier with it. Thanks for the suggestions though!

Hello all - just joined these forums after lurking and reading the site intermittently over the past year. Mostly a software guy, although I've always had some power-hungry hardware lying around the home since my university days. I still have a couple of Silicon Graphics and Alpha workstations...