Recent content by Michael Hall

Besides the lack of firmware updates mentioned by Rand_, I'd be concerned about the condition of the capacitors in an SUA, or even worse, an SU, model. I'd maybe consider one from a proper dealer with a warranty, but at C$275 for an SUA1500RM2U from my usual source, I'd probably just spring the...

Ah, I'd selected AMD and SoC, but it's listed under SP3, which is the EPYC 7xxx socket. There's also the EPYC3101D4I-2T. They're both Mini-ITX, and only have 4 SATA ports, though. OP might be able to rig something up using one of the M.2 slots and an M.2 to PCIe riser, but that's getting...

There's a handful of 45W Ryzens, but they're mostly Zen-based. The Ryzen 5 2600E and Ryzen 5 2700E are Zen+, though. No 45W Zen 2s yet. Also, depending on your workload, sometimes a higher wattage, higher performace, CPU will actually use less energy overall, because it may spend...

Yeah, Supermicro only makes EPYC 3000-series boards in Mini-ITX. Doesn't look like ASUS, ASRock, Gigabyte or Tyan make any EPYC 3000-series boards, either. Otherwise, there's Ryzen (AFAIK, only Ryzen Pro officially supports ECC, but apparently it works on the regular ones, too), or a (probably...

I've used Shipito.com several times to forward shipments to Canada. For an extra fee, they'll fill out the customs declaration for you (otherwise you fill it out on their website), but I don't think they do customs brokerage, so you're at the mercy of the carrier for that.

We've had good experiences with PICS Telecom.

I've got a surplus Backblaze Pod 1.0 case. They're top-loading, 45-bay, and the drives just drop in, with rubber bands around them to stop them vibrating. They use 5-port SATA port multiplier backplanes, so need compatible (non-Intel) SATA controllers. I can't remember if I've got a full set...

Just want to confirm that RAM speed. I don't think I've ever seen DDR3 800, before?

Case and one used NIC are officially gone.

No need to spend $100 on a quad gig NIC. I've got new and used cards for sale over here, for C$35 and C$25, plus shipping, respectively. They're based on the older Intel 82571EB chip, but they work just fine.

And I've got a firm offer on one of the used NICs.

The case is most likely sold, I'm just waiting for payment.

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I was working on something somewhat similar to this, for a OpenStack cluster based on 6 AMD AM1 nodes. The plan was to use a 12V 720W lighting power supply feeding a PicoPSU in each board. I only ever got as far as hooking the power supply up to a home-made load tester and accidentally...

Hello folks, Cleaning out the lab. All prices are in Canadian Dollars, plus shipping, OBO. Payment by PayPal, or cash pickup from East York or Etobicoke. I haven't sold a whole lot of stuff there, but for what it's worth, I've got a 100% positive feedback rating on eBay. CPUs 1x used AMD...