Recent content by rtech

If your PSU has poor efficiency at low loads. You could replace your PSU. HDD spin down helps but supposedly increases wear and tear. Turning off unnecessary components from motherboards helps like integrated audio USB ports etc.

Second link BA computer says its 2pcs. Intel E610XT2M5 PCIe 4.0 x4 - 10 Gigabit Ethernet x 2 - Multipack https://www.ba-computer.at/intel-ethernet-network-adapter-e610-xt2-netzwerkadapter-e610xt2m5.html#additional

You should have written in your ad where exactly are you are located and minimum amount.

I think TheGuyDanish solution here in this forum might interest you. https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/custom-jbod-motherboard.45684/

The static electricity passing through board, through standoffs to ground would actually damage the board so conductivity of brass standoffs plays no factor here.

I thought platform formerly known twitter x was much more effective for these purposes.

I do see 2x5.25 to 8x 2.5 disk bays on alibaba for ~120 USD piece if you negotiate with seller on shipping you might get better prices.

Thanks for the lgproxy did not know it existed. I've found at least NFS over RDMA is pain in the ass to install given my experience i would just get fast enough cpu as @Stephan recommends.

@NerdAshes How strong microscope do you have to have to spot these missing capacitors?

Virtualize your windows install to VM p2v physical to virtual machine and use one of the Linux solutions.

Personally i would get full chassis https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005674675428.html

@Karpo Thats is not silent though it can be to some degree silenced there is question if the drives would be properly cooled. And you will fighting lack of connections from PDB. Subjectively server case does look bad outside of rack if there are any requirements for looks.

When was the last time you saw low profile GPU? In my opinion just get tower with required amount of 3.5 disk bays prefer those which have these bays included otherwise you will have shell like 20€ for 2 disk bay each. This one has 8x hot-swap bays and is from UK...

Not that great solution that bracket is there for reason if you bump into chassis and server is running that card might get loose and you will get in best case just freeze/kernel panic on your server I would recommend to make cutoff with angle grinder and keep the bracket on.

If am running old out of support motherboard i upgrade because most people update to latest version. This eliminates potential problems and i am able to find topics on internet aplicable to my (latest version) of the BIOS