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Vandeyr, Looking at my t740's BIOS settings (maybe you have similar on the t730) there is a setting under the "Advanced" tab, "Option ROM Launch Policy", then "PCIe Slot Option ROM Download" ; setting is "Enabled" or "Disabled". I believe this is the setting that Greg_E was referring to in...

Vandeyr, You could try masking pins B5 and B6 on the pcie connector of the X540 NIC. Others have had success with that technique. Here is a blog post with pictures which explains what to try in greater detail. I think they just used standard electrical tape to mask the pins. If you have any...

RabidRabbit, You may want to check the docs for your m920q's to see if their m.2 E key slots are using the newer Intel CNVi standard. AFAIK those slots will only work with newer Intel Wi-Fi CNVi modules, because some of the processing is offloaded to the Intel CPU. Thus these m.2 E key...

MyersJ2, If you haven't seen this thread, it should give you an idea of what others have found or researched as coming soon with those CPUs. https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/cwwk-topton-nxxx-quad-nic-router.39685/ Good luck with your search.

S7ewie, I think it would help others regarding hardware recommendations if you can provide a power budget (in watts, assuming you'll run the server 24/7) and perhaps an idea of how much storage you want and what type of redundancy that storage should have. I'll offer a couple of...

iZohanX, This may be late to your need, but I noticed a card which claims to have the desired i225v3 chipset from zimaboard. Here's a link: PCIe x4 to 4-Port 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet Card Intel I225v3 Chipset Network Expansion Card PXE, Wake-On-LAN Hope this helps. PD

CIR-Engineering, Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions. It's good to know where you can find 12V if I need it in the future to cool a PCIe card. PD

CIR-Engineering, Thanks for sharing your modification. I couldn't tell from the photos. Is the fan installed to push air into the t740 case or to extract air? Also, do you have a photo of the PCIe slot power wiring? Wondering what temp does your NIC run at now? Thanks in advance for any...

HP's "QuickSpecs" for the t740 mentions the AMD Radeon E9173 as a GPU option. AMD's specs for that GPU show a power draw of 35W. I doubt the t740 could support any GPU with a significantly higher power draw (guessing 40-50W max) based on the 90W power adapter. To be clear though, I've never...

I don’t think you‘re crazy. I’ve thought about trying to do something similar with an HP t740 to create a mini all in one storage and hypervisor server. I’m still researching the required adapter and whether I could fit it onto the board. I’ll leave you a couple of links. The first is a...

Here’s an STH article about SFP+ to RJ-45 adapters: https://www.servethehome.com/sfp-to-10gbase-t-adapter-module-buyers-guide/

Provantage’s website shows four Asrock Rack ROMED8-NL motherboards, but it doesn’t have 10Gbit ethernet on the board. So you would have to use one of pcie slots for an adapter. Maybe it would meet your requirements. https://www.provantage.com/asrock-romed8-nl-bto~7ASRI0MQ.htm Good luck with...

Yes, definitely cheaper to do that. Especially if you don't need to work with SAS drives. Back when I got mine IIRC it was on special from Newegg in the US and it was about $80. That was all I was willing to spend for the convenience and flexibility to use SAS drives.

Here is one option from startech. I've had a similar enclosure/adapter for several years and it has held up ok. If this one is the same, the door latching and drive seating mechanism is kind of weak. Be careful not to force it closed if something is out of alignment...

Mithril, Perhaps an Edgerouter X loaded with Open WRT would meet your requirements. It's very low power, max of 5 watts according to the data sheet and flashing it to OpenWRT would avoid vendor lock-in : https://openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/edgerouter_x_er-x_ka It has 5 Gigabit ports (you would...