Recent content by Oarman

Those S3520s are going to be 8ish years old at this point and the seller doesn't seem to make any claims of remaining life. They could be shelf queens or they could be thrashed to bejesus by now.

The 960GB version states " U.2 to M.2 adapter cable" in the 'key features' while the 1.5TB version doesn't.

I don't have NE+ and I see it when I'm not logged in anyway. It may be location based, though

FYI Newegg is now throwing in a $20 gift card.

It was developed earlier than that, when 2D NAND flash around the 20nm node was starting to show real problems in write endurance, especially in the TLC applications needed to get SSDs to reasonable consumer prices. For better or worse process improvements (mostly going 3D) have mitigated NAND...

This is why I like the AMD boxes, I don't trust the ARM Macs to perform Under Pressure

I like the boxes with 8-core AMD chips for this sort of stuff. I bought one with a 5800H for pretty cheap, and it gets the job done; it only came with 1Gbps Ethernet so I added a 2.5Gbe USB adapter. You can get faster boxes but keep in mind 1) the cost usually goes up faster than the...

I ordered a couple of these and was wondering about the cable myself, since the pictured cable wouldn't actually connect the drive to the card without a backplane, and if you already had a backplane, you probably already had a card and cables. I didn't particularly care, since I already have...

You can save yourself a lot of grief and just get a USB 2.5gbE adapter. That's what I ended up doing after getting an A+E board that didn't fit.

These boxes don't have any moving parts, whereas the EQ12 has an active heatsink fan that will eventually fill with dust, get noisy and/or fail. That's assuming you're not adding a fan to one of the passive boxes, but if you're just running OPNsense it's pretty unlikely you need to. Once you...

The X13SCH-F uses a C266 chipset and according to Intel that only works with Xeon E-2400s, no cheap non-Xeon socket warmer listed. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/231692/intel-c266-chipset/compatible.html

The SuperMicro boards with integrated heat sinks are essentially designed for 1U systems, often with fan shrouds and/or industrial (loud) fans. Cooling them effectively outside those conditions can take trickery. If you are using a bigger case and want quiet operation, you're better off with...

It seems a frequent request is some variant of "what M.2 stick can I put in this box to use the least power." Or, alternately "which SSD offers the most performance per watt". The current reviews don't measure drive wattage directly, and I understand (especially for loaded measurements) this...

I have one of the 2-port N100 units. When I got it, I tried two different 32GB Crucial DIMMs (two halves of a CT2K32G48C40S5 kit) and neither could pass MemTest86+ with any kind of consistency, albeit with strange errors that I suspect were config / tuning problems. I ended up swapping in the...

The documentation suggests the half-height port on the riser (where the H330 is) is a x4 and the full-height slot (where I have the sound card in mine) is an x8. Googling around but not bios diving, it does not look like the R240 supports bifurcation.