Recent content by Markess

First and foremost... @Ajgoyt if you got rid of your machine, let us know. If not, let us know where you are. If nothing else, its a 4U chassis with drive trays and an expander backplane. Yeah, sure, somebody poo poo'd that its SAS2. But, as an archive, its still faster than Amazon S3 from a...

Why didn't I think of that? Good to know! Thank you.

@Ajgoyt , did you ever mention your location?

This ^^ Other than SATA, I think almost any enterprise SSD will get hot without at least a little airflow. SAS SSDs and NVME in the m.2 format (Samsung PM953/963/983 etc.) probably won't need as much as the OPs P45001/4510, but they still need some.

Reviews I read indicated that the PCB matched the XT's and not the non-XT. Igor did a water cooling upgrade along with his W5700 review, using an Alphacool Aurora GPX-A RX5700, which I think is designed for the XT? AMD Radeon Pro W5700 wassergekühlt und übertaktet - das Sinnvolle trifft auf...

My thought getting the one I did is that its "new". W5700 was apparently a moderately popular card for mining when paired with a tweaked BIOS. I figured buying "new/open box" (assuming it really is new), avoids any risk of getting a tweaked card, or broken fan, or any of the other stuff that...

Seller says its "new open box, not in original box", so I assume they were bulk packaged. I didn't haggle much and took sellers first counter of $95. Haven't gotten it yet, but feedback from others who bought one is positive. For something that compares to Quadro RTX4000/GeForce RTX2060 in...

The thing I liked best about STH (even the years I was a lurker almost all the way back to the beginning) is that the forums are of use to literally everyone using off lease/recycled enterprise gear. Big, small, old, new; someone is using it and there's almost always someone who knows the...

Firstly @foureight84 , nice bracket design! I've had to make a few brackets myself in the past and never thought to make them flat & then bend and glue. Brilliant! Yeah, this...I think? I think the single port and dual port cards have the same chip and nothing special is done to fuse...

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My experience is limited here, seems to be just a marketing way to claim L3 while delivering only a subset of full L3 functionality. I don’t think “lite” is an actual standard though, so I’m sure the included features are going to vary from device to device. I have a cheap Marvell based 10g...

I’m still setting up my two systems as time allows, but I can see the appeal for budget homelabbers who are OK with the limitations. The main one being speed. Someone here once said that at a certain point, pricing for hardware like CPUs and memory is based on supply rather than performance...

As I understand it, when you use PMEM in memory mode, the DRAM works as cache for the PMEM and won’t be reported as RAM as all. So with two 512gb in memory mode, your system will have a terabyte (1024gb)...

To the best of my knowledge the mSATA form factor standard puts the mounting posts at the outside edge like that. Many manufacturers used just a single post on one side, like in the picture. I've never seen an mSATA device that didn't have the mounting holes on the corner(s) like that...

In my case, of the four I bought, 2 came with what seemed to be current firmware and two needed an update. I went ahead and flashed all four with firmware off Nvidia's site. Worked fine without issues. PSIDs were what was expected according to Nvidia's Firmware download pages, and there...