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    Custom JBOD "Motherboard"

    Hey! Sorry for the (very) late reply. I have, please send me a DM on here and I'll get you the information! :)
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    [Unsure if legit, buyer beware] Multiple Supermicro EPYC boards for cheap

    They're quite a bit cheaper than the ones flooding eBay, but given just how many H1SSL-i + 7551P bundles are flooding eBay, it wouldn't surprise mf if this is people who are desperate to unload stock that's just sitting around. I'm kinda tempted to order something and see what happens.
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    Custom JBOD "Motherboard"

    I've thankfully got both a VAT number for my business selling the boards, and I work at a place that does sometimes buy refurb'ed equipment, so I'm good on two fronts for that! :D And no worries. I know it's chaotic to be shifting around. I only moved back to Denmark last year after spending...
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    Custom JBOD "Motherboard"

    First, hello fellow Dane! And thanks for name dropping, it's always nice to find new refurb vendors. ;) Second, I'd suggest reading through the 82885T manual, the external ports (labelled I and H) can connect to the controller (HBA/RAID card) or another expander for daisy chaining. All the...
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    Custom JBOD "Motherboard"

    The card is a SAS expander. It works in much the same way as an expander does on a backplane inside a chassis, effectively acting as a switch between the uplink(s, being the HBA in your head end device) and the downlinks (being your drives in the JBOD chassis). There's other cards from different...
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    Custom JBOD "Motherboard"

    Unfortunately I don't do enough business for DHL to want to discuss pricing with me, and the prices they offer me are slightly higher than UPS. I still have PostNord, which hands over to USPS in the US, but they're even worse in that they demand I pay the import duties upfront, but also don't...
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    Custom JBOD "Motherboard"

    Hey man, I do, so feel free to send me a private message on here. I'll add a disclaimer here for future visitors: At the time of writing, shipping to the US is a bit difficult because tariff charges are (almost seemingly) random when I'm sending with UPS, so I can sell and ship to the US, but...
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    Custom JBOD "Motherboard"

    I'll send you a message in a moment! :)
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    Custom JBOD "Motherboard"

    Absolutely. DM coming your way.
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    Custom JBOD "Motherboard"

    Sure do! Check your DMs in a minute!
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    Custom JBOD "Motherboard"

    Hey there, sorry I missed this message. I'll send you a DM!
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    DIY "Redundant" DC power supply?

    The way I see it, the simplest approach would probably be to get something like a Mean Well ERDN20-12 (assuming your DC stuff is all 12v and your load is at most 20A) since that could take care of two inputs and a single output (with some signalling for monitoring) The other approach is to...
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    UK SOLD - Homelab sellout (CSE-216, 400mm deep 18U rack, ATX hot-swap case and more)

    It isn't Chenbro, I managed to find the Alibaba posting for it again here. I would ship it but I don't have a suitable box and packing material for it and time is already at a bit of a premium unfortunately.
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    UK SOLD - Homelab sellout (CSE-216, 400mm deep 18U rack, ATX hot-swap case and more)

    Hey y'all! I'm leaving the UK soon and, as a result, am letting go of some of my homeprod equipment (and more). I'm local to PE2 and WFH so I am able to fit pretty nicely around anyone's schedule, the only exception being the 15th to 19th of March as I'll be out of the country. Any collection...
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    UK Strange ASRock Rack MC-C612FM Motherboards (Dual 2011-3) - £120 (OBO)

    For a first-timer, I probably wouldn't recommend these. With reasonable ease, you can probably get it to run and be a simple compute node, but if you need the PCIe expandability, there's no easy way to really get that out of these. The metal connectors do carry the PCIe signals, but they're...
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    UK FS: Multiple C2750/C2758 boards (ASRock, Supermicro, ASUS)

    Haha, the true way to do it! Send me a DM and we can work out the deets!
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    UK FS: Multiple C2750/C2758 boards (ASRock, Supermicro, ASUS)

    Assuming it's the AVR54 bug, it's pretty easy to fix if you've just got a soldering iron and some resistors handy. I soldered an SMD resistor underneath the board between the +3vSB (Pin 15, called +3V_DUAL on SMCI) line and LCLK (Pin 1) on the TPM header on the ASRock board and it worked pretty...
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    UK FS: Multiple C2750/C2758 boards (ASRock, Supermicro, ASUS)

    Heya all. Selling some of my old homelab equipment as I've finally got a shed to move my gear into and not be bothered by noise. ASUS P9A-I/C2750/4L (For some reason, ASUS removed the product page for this, but it's This one, minus the SAS chips and connectors.) Comes with...