Recent content by rmcfadzean

Picked up the switch. Super easy and crazy fast mailing. Thanks @autoturk!

I'm not sure how true it still is as my disks are showing slim-to-no wear yet after a year, but my understanding was that (at least of a year or so ago) using Proxmox HA services eats consumer-grade SSDs with gusto. Optane is great for ZFS special vdevs though - A bit about SSD perfomance and...

I see we have similar interests, @zac1 :D I'll confirm that the NCR badged gear in a 505 that you've seen is indeed a supermicro and in my case it was a SYS-5019D-4C-FN8TP / x11-sdv-4c-tp8f. I couldn't see any NCR-specifc model info on it though. The sticker on the bottom is just a regular...

I got a response from the one that DMed me (henrypage) so there's a human there to some degree. Captchas aren't going to do much tbh, but I do agree with @UnknownPommes suggestions.

I'm mostly after the stx motherboard from a deskmini x300 but I am open to the whole deskmini if the price is right. Looking to expand upon my alt-TMM army Thanks!

Ahhh yeah, missed that.

Seems they relisted a couple at $185. https://www.ebay.com/itm/385294439858

When I asked about guaranteed minimum health, they offered to send SMART results for what would be my order. I'm just trying to figure out how many make sense right now

Very. Go on... I've been scouring eBay lately for weird little boxes like this. It started as looking for cheap alternatives to a raspberry pi because those prices are ridiculous right now. I have seen nothing in that price point for my searches though. Ivy bridge is a little further back than...