Recent content by Patrick

I am hoping this will only be for a maximum of 1 hour. Here is the issue: We need the forums to get from an old cluster to a new cluster and it is going to have to be a cold migration. My plan is either Friday night or Saturday night when activity is lower. The good news is that it will have...

@piranha32 should be fixed now. Thanks. We had to re-enable reCapthca. Our Akismet API requests have burned through two paid license levels this month.

That was the worst! Super over-provisioned Kingston "data center" SSDs did not have power inrush protection so a surge in the Dell C6100 took out the drives in every node. People wonder why I have become a fan of losing performance by using mixed brands of drives in RAID 1 in the hosting...

Good points. Some thoughts. A big part of this series was really a nudge to vendors like MikroTik to do 2.5GbE, to Netgear to make cheaper 2.5GbE, and so forth. The difference between what it costs for Realtek switch chips that are tens of dollars and switches we saw in 2022 for $500 was crazy...

OK enough of this tone. Please keep things civil.

Ha! Awesome. My wife just said "I love that"

Hey @tjsgifan please add asking prices to the FS post.

Guess who on the team captured that one and said "we must use this?" ;)

@Mark Linton I have actually been looking for a few 2U NVMe single socket EPYC servers. We have a ton of DDR4-3200 and old Milan CPUs so my thought was to build a few low-power hosting nodes with those. The 16TB drives I was thinking of using just for backups and completely removing hard drives...

Hey guys, For those who do not know, last week we had a "drop everything and jump on a plane" opportunity. After 2.5 years of asking, we got a 2-hour window to go look around the IT of an NFL stadium, unguided. That "Go" came about 36 hours before the window opened. Then, I got very sick to the...

I have one of these and was hoping to do a roundup / video in September before the move. I showed @WillTaillac that and he was like you MUST do a video on this. I have all the cards on our "to do" shelf for that roundup/ video.

Memory is a good idea for this as well. I was told by the Minisforum folks that it works so we used 2x Crucial CT48G56C46S5 48GB DIMMs. We have not seen any issues yet, but the Minisforum folks said they are only supporting 64GB maximum because they did not have time to validate 96GB. Still, in...

Just starting this as a repository for what worked and what did not work in the Minisforum MS-01. If you test something, please put it in this thread so folks can see what works, or does not work in these systems. DDR5 SODIMMs Tested Crucial CT48G56C46S5 48GB DIMMs PCIe Cards Tested Worked...

Before we left Friday, we had them hooked up to a MikroTik switch via cheapo 10Gtek SFP+ optics.

Downloaded Proxmox VE 8.1.3. Installed it. Added SFP+ modules and connected OM4 fiber. Assigned IP addresses and set to autostart. Everything worked immediately.