Recent content by pricklypunter

At a guess, that backplane might also be used for a drop in cage, where only a single 120mm fan is normally bolted on the back. You should be able to just piggyback a wire from an output signal on a mainboard driven fan, to the appropriate pin on the backplane, to fool it into thinking there's...

I bought 2 of these a while back, never had any issues with disk detection or anything else. After updating initially, they went right into service and have been faultless since :)

Sounds like a cooling issue to me. Is this in an SM case with fans and shrouds etc?

Yea, I would second that, VMUG is def the legal way to go and gives you access to all the goodies. At this point though, unless there's a real pressing reason to go with ESXi, maybe learning for work or something, I would hop on the Proxmox gravy train for home lab stuff. I just don't think ESXi...

Or...just attach elastic to your $20 bills :D

I think you are loading down the power supply...16 disks, plus everything else, is a lot to expect from a 750W power supply. Remember they calculate that 750W across the various rails, they are not equally split. For that number of disks, I would be expecting your supply to be at least in the...

I have seen very similar problems arise when power supplies sag. Are you sure your power supply is up to the job?

I have found, on the 2 occasions that I have been unfortunate, that ebay will make things right, if you are honest with them and can provide them with the information they need to verify your purchase etc. It all takes time, and ebay are in no hurry, unfortunately. Worst case, if you paid by...

Just to keep things honest, I received the switch in good time, well packed and in excellent condition. It's all up to date, reset and ready to go in my rack, thanks again bud!

You know those spammy amazon reviews, where someone completely ignored all the negative ones, but somehow fixated on the only positive review to make up their mind...then complained later that they didn't know any better. I'm guessing it's the "all those ppl must be lying to keep the deal to...

Classic symptoms of a dry/ cold solder joint. When nice and toasty, everything expands, making contact, but when cooled, everything shrinks, breaking said contact. Some electrolytic capacitors also cause a similar symptom, but not because of thermal expansion, they do it because they dry out and...

Lol, these are the perfect home for that critical database you have been itching to deploy :D:D

The B400 was an ODM board, manufactured for a smaller server manufacturer. I tripped over it by accident, when I was looking for a suitable chassis for my build. I still get messages about it, which is amazing, despite posting about the build years ago :) It was about EOL when I got mine, plus...

I built a similar system using an even cheaper board, Inventec B400, but using an E3-1245v2, which has the same TDP as the E3-1275v2. I can't remember the exact idle wattage I seen at the time, but it was really low, something like low to mid 20's. Your drives and add-in cards will pull way more...

It doesn't sound to me that outright performance is a goal or hard limit here. I might look at one of the older X9 boards, maybe the X9SCA-F with a V2 12xx chip. Most can be snagged for $60-70 complete with CPU, RAM and Cooler. That would make a nice cheap, pretty low powered NAS with enough...