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Ooh -- good point. Now next step is to see if this is used anywhere or on eBay somewhere...

I'm thinking of upgrading my Proxmox build (currently X11SSH/something with a soldered down Xeon 1585L). The ACS / IOMMU groups aren't the greatest, I can solve this with some OPNsense configuration + networking, but thinking if I had to go from scratch. All I need I/O wise is a PCIe x16 slot...

Yeah, that would work or one of the other random AQC113 based ones out there.

Heat mostly and I don't think I have one handy -- plenty of SFP/1GbE ones in my closet but not sure I have any 10GbE ones. The cards/baffle are likely to be cheap enough that doing it 'right' isn't a big deal.

Do you have any baffles for copper NICs? The one has been running fine on the Supermicro card but I need to go copper now, and while cards are cheap, looking for something that has a clean mount + maybe be able to re-use the fan I got from you.

Did a quick thread search but the results didn't jump out at me -- for reasons (switching to a Pro XG 48 switch), I'd like to switch to a 10GbE copper NIC in my M90q Gen2. Currently, I have one of the Supermicro fiber cards in there w/ the excellent shroud fan adapter thing from WarlockSyno, but...

I just put something you might be interested in here. I got those parts because I wanted to do a crazy NVMe server build -- tons of lanes and slots. Also heading to the UK in a few weeks if that is of interest (simplify shipping by turning it into a carry-on...) let me know.

I had planned this build... and then realized this was going to be too complex + too much TDP for what I want to do. Never powered it on or put in a case, I just loaded what components I could on the motherboard and then it sat on my shelf. It was going to be an epic, hyper-converged NVMe + NAS...

Finished turning 2x NSC-810 into disk chassis to connect to my main NAS (Node 804) w/ cables -- main thing I learned / missed, the backplanes generate 3.3V which meant a mid-day run to get some Kapton tape to tape over all my Exos drives. I thought about cutting traces / de-soldering the 3.3V...

Blast from the past but this thread helped me out yesterday -- had a 9305-16e (Dell Branded) that would not link up with drives. The red fault LED was blinking + dmesg was spamming "over-temp" messages (at 40 C... which is pretty reasonable!). I had to make a DOS bootable stick to use sasflash...

Hmm -- I just added in a Connect-Tech GPS receiver to the M.2 WiFi slot and it's not showing up in lsusb... do these still whitelist what is in the M.2 slot? AFAIK the receiver shouldn't be PCIe, just USB, so I'd expect it to show up, unless it's pulling some pins low / being kept in reset...

Yep that's the one -- haven't given it a whirl yet, but it's sitting in my Packout (yep) with all my various SFPs... just cheaper / easier to get them in bulk sometimes.

Fair point -- looks like that one is based on the 82599ES chipset, so should be good for my needs. I have the FS.com SFP reprogramming kit as well, so I can see if I need to mess with the Chelsio-compatible optics I had bought for it. Guess I have a T520 to offload now...

I've got a M90q build that's just waiting on a 3D printed bracket for a Chelsio T520 -- it does fit if you remove the front speaker bracket / WiFi antenna. I bought with the 65 W TDP CPU and swapped in a i9-11900T. Currently running Proxmox for Home Assistant and HomeBridge... once I get a...