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I have moved my MS-01 fully into "production" in my homelab. It's now running everything that was previously running on my Lenovo Tiny with a 10GbE NIC installed. The power consumption continues to impress--steady state with everything running is still right around 20W, 5W lower than the Tiny...

How much power does it use? I'm interested in something like this as 1) a secondary switch for one of my proxmox HA networks to reside on so that my nodes don't all freak out and restart if I need to take down my core switch for any reason; and 2) to provide a 2.5G to 10G interface for some of...

I can't tell you anything about the power consumption or noise as compared to the 12900H, since I don't have that version. But in my proxmox cluster, running my firewall VM and my media stack (plex, channels dvr, *arrs), it idles right around 20W. It pops up a couple watts if one of the aars is...

My 12600H is currently up and running. It’s fantastic so far—frankly exceeding my expectations as far as efficiency is concerned and it’s got a ton more headroom than the Lenovo tiny that it’s replacing. The wait is certainly a bit annoying—only you can decide if it’s worth the higher price to...

Are you interested in 7.68T U.2 (gen3)? I have 3x that I just pulled from my server.

If you can find out how tall the heatsink is, the U.2/NVME slot can fit a U.2 drive up to 7mm thick, plus about ~1mm for the adapter. So you could potentially fit something up to about 8mm total thickness. Maybe? Roll the dice and report back, for science!

Check the initial STH review. I'm pretty sure one of the PCIE cards that Patrick tested was an external SATA card from a QNAP SATA JBOD. And at least one LSI external SAS HBA has been confirmed to work as well.

Following up here, I added the MS-01 to my proxmox cluster and have a couple of light VMs running some docker containers (*arr stack and a small bit of HA stuff) and my media LXC (nothing streaming right now). Everything more or less idle, although it's replicating a decent number of VMs back...

I'd run Windows as a VM and then simply share your DrivePool to a Plex LXC as cifs. My plex lxc is entirely independent of where I store my media files.

Yikes. That's not good as I'm planning this to be the primary host for my firewall VM. I have proxmox set up so the firewall VM can fail over if the host crashes, but instability is the opposite of what I'm looking for. I guess I won't take the other host out of service unless/until this proves...

That 11W number is with one 1G RJ45 and one 10G SFP+ connection. I tried to be clear that you'll never see it idle that low once VMs are running, even relatively light ones. I think the lowest I've ever seen my Lenovo Tiny with 10G idle with a single VM (pfsense doing pfsense things but not...

Your #1 problem is almost certainly disabling ASPM in the BIOS. I'd try enabling it to see if you observe any instability. Second, your U.2 drive will idle much, much higher than a M.2 drive, like ~5W at best for the U.2 vs < .5W for the M.2. But also bear in mind that this server is currently...

My i5-12600H barebones arrived yesterday, and I have it up and running with 64GB of Kingston Fury 4800. So far so good, and it idles in Proxmox at right around 11W, which is really impressive. That may even be lower than my Lenovo Tiny i5-8500T idled once I put a 2x SFP+ card in it. Need to do...

FYI, I would describe my switch with the mod as "quiet but noticeable if you're in the same small room" and not necessarily "next-to-dead silent," but to be fair I am pretty sensitive to noise as I sit fairly close to the switch 8+ hours every work day. And in any case it is a very substantial...

LOL. I hit post too quickly and you got the link while I was editing...

I used the RoachedCoach method described here. Pretty sure I used those Mechatronics fans as well, although I used a different 60mmx10mm fan for the ASIC. I also cut out the rear stamped grates and installed these to increase airflow and reduce noice from turbulence. Depending on how likely you...

I'd be cautious running with just a single fan, especially if/when you plug in some POE devices. Trying to exhaust 80W+ of heat through a single 40MM fan could go badly. On the other hand, there's no question that the cooling in these switches is substantially overprovisioned for homelab use. I...

For whatever it's worth, this person's 7250-48P idles at 63W, so if your 6450 really idles at 100W, this is a capability AND efficiency improvement. DO EET.

I'm pretty sure I did just that--I definitely did not start over from scratch. The only thing that I remember being different is the version of Fastiron on the 7250 no longer uses dual-mode--you can just set a port to have an untagged vlan and then any number of tagged vlans. But even that...