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Not quite as good, but still a deal for 32GB DDR4-2400T LRDIMM : SAMSUNG 32GB DDR4-2400T LRDIMM 4DRx4 M386A4G40DM1-CRC SERVER MEMORY | eBay

8 available at time of posting: SK HYNIX 64GB DDR4-2400T LRDIMM 4DRx4 HMAA8GL7MMR4N-UH SERVER MEMORY | eBay

Yes, you can use one port or even two ports giving a breakout of 5 and 4 ports respectively. Not so sure about the analogy but the main point is there is always gonna be a performance drop using an expander in this manner, which is exacerbated by the storage medium. With 1TB HDDs, I wouldn't...

Xeon Socket 2011-3 and 2066 will give you 40 and 48 lanes respectively. Your issue will be which MBs give you the PCIe lane count, the PCIe configuration you desire and other desirables. At the moment, Xeon V3 CPUs are the best bang for buck. However, for gaming, your gonna get better...

What's the price for the 2x E5-2660v4 2x E5-2689v4

What is the part number for the lrdimms?

The ballgame with L2ARC is changing (changed): Also, with the implementation of fusion pools and persistent L2ARC, TrueNAS has turbocharged read intensive application: Persistent L2ARC might be coming to ZFS on Linux Fusion pools are a new feature of TrueNAS. Haven't tried it but it does look...

Wait....where is the GPU?

I create a new pool, copy via a smb share using terra/x/robo copy and store away hdd disks. Hot-swap drives are key so that you can offline a pool to create the new pool.

Next question....What drive size(s) and how big of a pool are you looking to build? Generally, the bigger the drive size of each nvme u.2 drive -> more power required ->the more heat generated -> more air flow required -> faster fans required -> greater noise generated. Even a 4U with some...

I would get enterprise gear to begin with. My personal preference is to also not virtualize pfsense and keep it standalone. Maintenance issues, inter alia, on your host may affect your uptime on pfsense.

Upgraded a backup server from RC to release last night. No issues. FWIW, since TrueNAS 12 beta I've been having good results.

These look like either hmt42gr7cmr4c or hmt42gr7cmr4a. If so, the heat spreaders seem to have been removed.

You only need a GPU for plex if you are transcoding your media.. IPMI is a life saver, I would not buy a MB unless it has it. You will find out soon. You don't need a 1TB drive to boot, it's gonna be wasted space with ESXI. You don't need anything bigger than 16GB to boot. Further, you should...