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So my 140$ a drive back in November was a steal then!

Watch for firmware issues on those. I recently picked up 2x3.84tb PM863a drives and the firmware was not the latest 54xxxx version. They gave me ZFS trouble with the non upgraded firmware.

haha! Yes, agreed. Hard enough to do well mid-grade enterprise gear, little mind cheaper options. To do it well, it's using oculink or mcio connectors. Definitely not inexpensive at that point. That's where going with a Dell/HP/Lenovo bare chassis is probably easier than a consumer...

Have you ever had 8 SSDs hanging from cables inside the case before? Sure one or two that's fine. You start getting above 2 drives you start running into all kinds of issues, such as power splitters and all the wonder they are for drive placement. Not all cases have room to mount 8 plus drives...

Agree, finding the right WIO case can be a bit of an adventure. I used a older WIO case that supported the X10 and it was ok, risers lined up. Power extensions are an issue though. I had to order GPU power extension cables from Supermicro, as everything i tried from Amazon and various where the...

I know that board well. I got a deal last year with a couple bronze cpus, heat sinks and 32gb for a bit more than that without the chassis. I had to play the supermicro guess the case to fit it as its a custom form factor board. That said, I have the x10 version of that board, if anyone is...

Thanks for sharing! I have an older version that does not show support. Thats great to see the later updates having that!

Do you have the link? When I was researching the optane dims this came up as a problem since appdirect was not the mode I needed. The supermicro docs I read clearly said pmem wasnt supported. The BIOS did not have a pmem.mode. Maybe it was the board I was looking at. Again would be good to get...

Yes. 200 and 300 will not do straight pmem. There's some updated docs that talk about it. You can do appdirect and storage modes, hence mm but not pmem.

Also, important to note that 100 series supports pmem and appdirect modes. 200 and later only app direct. I have a 2x6230 with 128GB ram and 512GB optane on supermicro it has population rules that must be followed. I was able to run this in pmem mode with the latest firmware, but had to do...

In my experience, The QS typically works with any board. I know when I was researching the Intel Scalable's and finding cheap CPU's, that these typically work in anything, including Intel boards. Intel boards, typically block ES chips. The QS versions are identical to retail. If the have the...

That's a good deal! It's a H0 stepping. If you look online, avoid the QMTN. That's a ES stepping. You can tell in the picture. If you see the 6139 on the label it's either a QS or Retail version. The version I have does not have any of the ES marking in the CPU Name string when I run CPU Z...

If you want something that is practically the same as the 8124, but will work in any board, the Gold 6139 is the best choice. Same 18C/36T, but base clock is 2.3, boost to 3.7. 135W. It works in any Purley board too. I have the SR3G3 version, works great. Even works in a Dell 7820 system...

Yes, but it's really easy. VMware has a fling and a driver for many USB3 & USB2 adapters. https://flings.vmware.com/usb-network-native-driver-for-esxi Works pretty well, sans a couple bugs on auto-neg which I found. @Patrick 's article on the 5/2.5/1Gbe SFP+ modules was very helpful. I...

I'm pretty close to what you are looking for, The Dell 7040 Micro, I have it running with, - 64GB DDR4 SODIMM (2x32GB, the manual says it only supports up to 32GB, but runs 64GB anyway) - NVME - XPG GAMMIX 2TB S11 Pro - SATA - 1.6TB Intel DC S3510 series SATA - 2 NICs - Built in 1GBe +...

Not in Canada... I did some pretty extensive price searching. After paying shipping and duties, the Team Elite ones ended up being the same price if not a bit more expensive by a couple dollars. But, considering the Team Elite is the cheapest of the cheap, and I'm not putting this into...

Bought two of these recently... https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07N124XDS Running about $119US 32GB DDR4 SODIMM

I have quite a few Aruba AP's both instant and requiring a controller. The controller required version will be quite cheap, as you can find AP-225's with AC 866M speed for example, under 50$ US. The IAP-version which does not require any licenses or controllers is typically a bit more. I've...

That shelf looks pretty interesting for the price, and there's also a 12gb SAS3 version too. Cables look to be SFF-8436 (QSFP/QSFP+) from the manuals, so, easy enough to find a SFF-8088 to 8436 version. Thanks for sharing!

Product That's the Canadian version, in at about 520CAD + ship.... The exact model (1TB) is around $840CAD or so, very good deal at $175US if you can get on it...