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Oh. Duh. Not sure why I didn't bother going straight to the source!

I have a pair of this enclosure and I'm currently using adapters to mount ten 2.5" SSDs into 3.5" drive bays. Does anyone know if there exists a higher density version of these enclosures purpose built for 2.5" disks?

edit: actually, I think IIO IOU 2 might be bifurcated as X4X4X8 to allocate two X4 lanes to Slot 6. I took a lot of pictures to document my attempts and I might have them mixed up. Also- I am using this board as a trueNAS server with one pool of 16 500g SSD in RAID10 attached to the two M1015...

The 2-port NVMe adapter I used was this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09PGDMWKH which is about half price of the Supermicro card you posted. That said, the secret sauce here is understanding how each PCIe slot maps to the CPU and chipset. As a definition, IIO stands for Integrated...

I have a Supermicro X9SRL-F motherboard on which the IPMI isn't working properly. When I got the board I went into the BIOS and changed the IP address to static and it shows as 192.168.x.y. The IP address is pingable but I cannot point a browser to it. IPMIView 2.21.0 detects it and I can add...

The board I was asking about was a X9SRL-F :) but the premise is the same. An x8 slot can be split into two x4 slots which is what I was looking for. With a 2-slot NVMe card, each slot requires an x4 lane to function so you put it on an x8 slot and split it.

A BIOS update to 3.3 solved it. Thanks!

I have purchased a two-port NVMe PCIe adapter and I'm trying to get my Supermicro X9SRL-F motherboard to recognize it. I'm trying to turn on bifurcation on the slot but the ""IIO 1 PCIe Port Bifurcation Control" option I'm supposed to access is black and not selectable. Is this setting...

I'll be looking for a quiet 120mm or 140mm fan and some passive heatsinks for the various chipsets instead.

Well, I'm not sure I'm happy or sad that you've talked me out of it. :D I was kinda looking forward to a weird project like this, but am happy to not spend the dosh on motherboard/cpu/ram/case/fiber HBAs/4-port gig NICs.

This is literally the problem I am trying to solve. I have Force10 and PowerConnect 6248 switches and a Sonicwall NSA 4500 firewall appliance and the shriek of their 40mm fans has gotten old. I was toying with the idea of building a switch to cool it with 120mm fans. Is there any data about...

The easiest thing would be to cut a 120mm or 140mm hole in the top of each of my existing devices and unplug the 40mm fans increasing the airflow while reducing the noise, but that adds about 1U to each device. I'm trying to avoid that because my cabinet is filling up. But it would be the...

Yeah, I expect as much. This whole thing reeks of a Bad Idea but I'm considering doing it anyways. :p I'm hoping that I can replace three devices (Sonicwall NSA 4500, Force10 10g switch, PowerConnect 6248P gig switch) and their resulting crazy-loud fans with something home built and quieter...

Oh wow. Those are cool looking boards. A pity they are dual CPU, though. They will be a little overpowered for a simple switch. :D

I recently came across an article about VyOS and now I am intrigued about building my own router/firewall, but the port count on my existing switches is rather high. I plan on populating a motherboard with dual-port 10g fiber HBAs and 4-port 1gig copper NICs. I've seen plenty of mining...

Years later... The solution was to re-flash the firmware. It cleared up all the errors I was experiencing and life is good.

Yeah, I'm still here. Two years later. :) Did you manage to get it working? I could never get it to work and ultimately I moved away from IB to 10g fiber using a Force10 switch and Mellanox ConnectX-2 Ethernet Adapters.

I am running a home cluster based on the Supermicro X8DTE-F board and I love this board: Plenty of expansion slots, remote management IPMI, dual CPU, plenty of RAM slots to populate it on the cheap. A dual CPU, 64GB RAM combo can be put together on eBay for around $200, which I love the most...

Sorry, I sent mixed messages. The CX4 is a copper interface and the CX4Stacking module has a pair of CX4 interfaces (also called Amphenol cables) but I saw when you say copper you mean cat6a. The stacking module also accepts fiber transceivers that will allow 10g over fiber. The stock fans are...

Dell PowerConnect 6248 switches have 48 ports of GigE plus 4 ports SFP GigE, and they also have stacking modules that come with 2 port 10-gig fiber ports. search ebay for: Dell PowerConnect 6248 (~$60) and Dell PowerConnect Dual Port 10Gb CX4 Stacking Module (~$15 each) For $90 you'll get 48...