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Thanks, being prepared for disaster often can avert it. I'll checkout the IPMI reflash. I accidentally filled the 240Gb Boot SSD with some unattended downloads. The machine slowed to a crawl. It was so slow I could not delete the files I downloaded. I had to put the disk in another machine to...

I want to boot from Sabrent Rocket Q4 NVMe in generic adapter in my X9-DRW-CF motherbaord. I have looked at the Clover method but not the courage to try it. I just loaded a ton of video editing software so I really don't want to start with a new install. I current am running on a 240Gb SSD and I...

I thought my experience comparing a bridge in TRUENAS and 4 Mellanox 10Gb dual port cards as a switch verses a TP-Link TL-SX3008F 8 port 10Gb switch might be useful to anyone viewing this thread. Summary: - Performance of bridge is almost as good as the switch (in my tests) - Bridge takes less...

I am posting this as a PSA. I had to look to see what U.2 was. It looks amazing M.2 vs U.2 - Velocity Micro Blog These cards/drives look like it would be easy to build a huge data store Amazon.com: PCIE to U.2 Adapter Card, PCIE X16 to 4 Port U.2 NVME SFF-8643/8639 Expansion Card, PCIE 4.0...

I have no experience with bifurcation or this card. From what I read, It seems like a card like this would fill the bill. JEYI Quad NVMe PCIe 4.0 Expansion Card, Supports 4 NVMe M.2 SSD 2280 up t... New | eBay I have a tp-link 10Gb network switch and transfers from one system with a Local...

I have the front panel from the IMSAI 8080 I built in 1977. I am in the process of putting some life back into it with an Arduino Duo ALTAIR project. The disks, backplane and relay rack are all gone, but it will be fun to see the lights blinking again. Here is what it looked like in 1977. I...

CAT6 is a lot stiffer than CAT5e so you are probably right. It is a pain to install a jack with a short cable kneeling/sitting on the floor. I think these are the easiest crimp on as you are not pushing the cable into a dead stop, but I don't have experience with the punchless. The strain relief...

I recently installed some patch panels using a keystone with both in and out RJ45. I found installing the RJ45 jacks on the cable was easier than the punch down tools. I had a few I messed up on but my skills improved. I needed a RJ45 crimp tool to make the patch cables anyway. If I had to wire...

Use the "keystone" style jacks. What Is a Keystone Jack? (cablematters.com) They come with a plastic punch down tool. If you are not color blind they are easy to connect. You can test with this tool. Amazon.com: iMBAPrice - RJ45 Network Cable Tester for Lan Phone...

I missed the RJ45 part even though the 10Gbe copper was stated. My mistake. I only have fiber and DACs. I have no experience with RJ45 10Gb but I understand they do draw a lot of power.

SF do not like some DACs. Arista, Melanox, Cisco, worked but Molex did not.

$40/cooler still run off same MB that wants to spin fast. Different strokes for different folks. The controller and fan header < $15 and looks cooler.

I could not seem to get the right codes to control the fans on my Supermicro X9DRH-7F. It does not respond like my other Supermicro X9 motherboards. Even in the "optimal setting" the fans were too loud. I decided to use a hardware alternative. I used a ZIHYU 4 pin thermal control card and a...

The more expensive route is to build a Frankenstein system and then replace it later. You have a beauty there. I have found that the power consumption numbers in IPMI are not very accurate. I plugged my system into a UPS monitored by another system and used that to measure the power consumption...

Impressive, but I think you blew the budget. :cool:

I am getting BSOD with Win10 on a HP Z400 with a SFN6122F but I have similar card running on a Supermicro X8 motherboard. I hate to mess with it, but I’ll try to get a report out of the working config. The Mellanox cards I have run fine in win 10 so I am matching solarflare for TrueNas and...

I just bought a pair of full height SF432-1012-R3 S7120 Solarflare cards on ebay for $30. They seem to work OK after a few struggles. They are an upgrade for my SFN6122F Dual and SFN5152F Single cards. I had hoped to use the half height brackets from the old cards. Of course they do not fit. The...

That looks like a really nice MB. it has a slot for m.2 memory and has bifurcated PCIe slots that would enable multiple m.2 in a single PCIe slot. Good luck with your build.

Some of the miner dedicated motherboards have a lot of GPU slots but strange form factors and limited memory. With multiple GPUs they are anything but quiet. GPUs need room. Some regular boards have the slots but they are too close to one another. Not sure if the miner MB can support the SW you...

I wondered if anyone validated the accuracy of the power consumption listed in CORE Temp? In IPMI? and with a UPS? For the socket 2011 v2 processor I have in CORE Temp dynamically shows power consumption. For the Socket 1366 it shows the TDP (this has no idle mode) As has been stated previously...