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GLWS! I love my 8c POWER9 Raptor Blackbird. Glad I got one before the pandemic, because the prices have been insane since then…

Limit of 4 on Newegg.com. You can get another 4 via eBay should you need so many.

Don't see the half prices either, but didn't know they were having trouble. Buying a bunch of RAM I don't need from them today, haha.

Was there evidence that the reseller came from STH? If not, it's no difference whether the forum is private or not. And if so, then how would you filter out STH accounts that /are/ resellers? ebay auctions are public and not private or exclusive to STH — making STH forums private does not fix...

Recently seen in the last 6 months (March?).

FYI, the low price for new 18T easystores is $249.

Also interested in the RAM!

Offers at $35 now getting rejected. Anyone have a lead on cheap low-profile brackets?

OEM part:

Did you have photos?

Have had two of these from XeonSam working out well for me on a Dell R7525 for the last 2 months. These are Dell OEM, so they work well with Dell machines — the R7525 BMI detects them correctly as accelerators, etc. Packed great, shipped fast. You're a great seller XeonSam! My use case: AI...

What were the 2.5" screws you found?

+1 to what nablsltd said; you don't really have control how files will be laid out on disk to begin with. Additionally, in newer distributed filesystems like Ceph, fragmenting things is by design; you want chunks of a file randomly distributed all over the place to provide durability. Just to...

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GLWS! I'm in the Bay Area, wish these had more than just 8 bays.