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did the horaco/goodtop have a grounding connection? the vimin didn't, and that problem with DACs appears to not be common with most cheap switches.

if this was in my house the family would call it the "waxey"

I don't see a grounding connection on this one. Which I didn't see on the Vimin switch that I have either. and mine had problems with DAC cables causing the whole switch to power off. Any idea if this nicgiga model has the same problem?

sad day

Lol, it was LA. One of the "not good" part of LA. Probably 4 years ago I happened to see a listing on facebook marketplace or something called simply "drives and rams", and it was the contents of a large cardboard box spread all over the floor like a drug bust. I couldn't really make out...

my VM needs are modest, I'm hosting them on a 1tb Samsung 850 EVO that I bought in a giant cardboard box of ewaste from a dude on a street corner a few years ago. And performance is still more than I need for my home server. But imagine how much faster it would be with optane?!

this motherboard is vastly more appropriate for a server than a godlike. this one has a IPMI, slimSAS and SATA ports, etc.!

that motherboard is completely bonkers, and a price of $270 is what high end consumer boards go for. What CPU are you going to use for it?

also using a Mellanox CX3 (single 10G SFP variant) in my consumer desktop because it only has a x4 pcie slot. (it's actually only x1 electrically, so max bandwidth is around 6 or 8gbps) In my home server, it runs esxi, and i'm using an ancient emulex card that I got for dirt cheap years ago...

yeah the default badblocks is four read/write passes, which seems excessive to me. I do the option for a single "random" pass write/read pass and then it only takes a day or two.

ah i guess I didn't know these cards had gotten that cheap!

Wow that Huawei is an extremely big boy. 4u? too bad that a) the seller is in Germany and b) I totally don't need it anyway :)

wow that's nice. last time I needed one a SFP card I got a cheap mellanox but this is a good price for something that will probably have good driver support.

shipping showing expensive at $40, or $90 when I did quantity 10.

if it was somehow miraculously a regular HBA card (not a hardware raid) and also had 2x breakout cables, i would have jumped out the deal, only to get the very marginal upgrade from my current HPE H240 (it's still 12G SAS, but uses the older SFF 8087 cables from is limited to around 10G max...

so wait, what kind of the cables is the seller saying are supposed to be included? the SFF-8643 -> SFF-8643 that seem to be pictured or something else?

personally, even though they dont' have the warranty, I'd go with one of these 14TB deals. Toshiba MG07SCA14TE 14TB 7.2K 3.5" SAS 12Gbps 512e 256MB Enterprise HDD *Grade B (techyparts.com) 2x 14TB SAS + LSI 9361-8i and 2x cables 149 USD | ServeTheHome Forums (second one back up to $169 at...

STH effect let them increase their prices.

you know this is a thing where going more in depth on the mind link dock thingy and what it is and how it works would be interesting. Also, I was unclear, but does the dock truly provide power to the unit when it is docked?

weirdly interesting combo. Decent price on just the drives by themselves. the 9361 seems to be a megaraid card, which means hardware raid only and no IT mode (I may be wrong) the cables look like SAS3 to SAS3, in other words to hook up to an internal backplane or something, not breakout...