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    backups restorable by non-experts?

    Why just not write detailed instructions how to do access your ZFS? With ubiquitous howtos and even dark power of agentic AI I would not be too troubled about your progeny not being able to access your ZFS pool. I would rather have the best pictures printed out rather than stored on HDD. It it...
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    RAM Price Tracker

    Does not work for ECC Unbuffered RAM which is unfixable in my opinion.
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    Need desperate advice buying my first HD'S Pickup is this weekend.

    I would avoid super old drives such as these. From memory I recall that HDD are generally designed to last at least 7 years after 10 years disks are deemed more like risk for its intended purpose. Storing data. Now supposedly your guy had offered you disks that were sitting on shelf for 4/5...
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    EU Xeon E5-xxxx V2 Ivy Bridge CPU

    Looking for E5-1660 V2, E5-1620 V2 ,E5-1650 V2, E5-2667 V2.
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    Toshiba MG09 helium condition dropping — normal?

    Given rapidity of Helium level decline you should backup your data ASAP. Wait a while if it stays level but given how small He atoms are it is very unlikely that it will stay in same level especially if it is caused by leak not faulty sensor.
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    Hosting multiple game servers without breaking the bank?

    You have fallen for spammer bot who had revived this topic.
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    Icy Box IB-563SSK (3x 3.5" SATA/SAS in 2x 5.25" bay) noise

    I have similar bay from Chieftec and first thing I did replace its noisy fan. Check mounting arrangement if your enclosure can actually take thicker fan if your fan is thinner than standard 25mm.
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    If you could buy a DGX Spark signed by Jensen Huang, how much would you pay?

    Is it personally signed by Jensen or it is just autopen by his employees? Does every signature look same?
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    US bans "foreign-made" consumer routers

    If regulators would have wanted to solve security issue all consumer router firmware would have mandated to be open source and ideally an OpenWRT and perhaps something else for enterprise hw.
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    US bans "foreign-made" consumer routers

    I do not think that legislators are knowledgeable enough to know that you can flash alternative firmware to routing hw therefore rule that everything which not specifically forbidden is allowed. Enjoy being in gray area as being in spectacle of idiotic lawmakers is not something you want.
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    Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 pci slot

    Why don't you measure it from picture? The dimension of DIMM slot and CEM connector is known just get one of these onscreen rulers and with a bit of math you can make a reasonable estimate.
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    9950X + air cooling inside 2U. Case question

    Piopartslap sells this ATX chassis together with rails and PSU if you do not mind questionable availability of Lenovo proprietary PSU and LFF disk caddy was unobtanium last time I researched this topic you might give this one a try. https://www.ebay.com/itm/146723323022
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    9950X + air cooling inside 2U. Case question

    Most motherboards do allow you to reduce TDP so if you are worried about dissipation of 170W TDP you could just remove Turbo or enable ECO mode. If you have no need of 12 Hot swap bays you could get CSE-825 8hdd bays instead of 12 on 826 Other than that there is Inter-Tech and other resellers...
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    Which SAN software will run atop RHEL?

    What will you boot via SAN. VMs? or Physical machines? You should really describe what you intend to do and or at least make a simple outline of your desired storage architecture. Pretty sure that you can use iSCSI or NVME-oF on RHEL-clones. Another old and kinda forgotten is AoE. I dabbled...
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    [Unsure if legit, buyer beware] Multiple Supermicro EPYC boards for cheap

    Had a look through seller offerings and given the range of his wares i would assume it is some sort of decommissioning sale. Looks i was wrong see below.
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    Pcie GPU with an Aspeed AST2400, aka the lowest power UEFI-compatible GPU

    Some data for comparison. My AMD HD 8350 was consuming ~4w idle when booted live SystemRescue apart from 92mm fan and 4x RAM sticks nothing else was consuming power.
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    EU Ebay/Pioparts Dell VEP4600 (~EUR 259.00) - Xeon D-2100

    How much of that power consumption figure comes from fans?
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    Pcie GPU with an Aspeed AST2400, aka the lowest power UEFI-compatible GPU

    Any data on power consumption? Does this card prevent your server from going into deeper sleep states? Since you have written that you have flashed the UEFI firmware onto NOR chip when it was desoldered i assume any buyer of this card would have to do the same?
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    ZFS NAS as Virtual Machine

    I have been using raw partition passthrough to accomplish similar thing you want to do. In my case i am using btrfs + nfs. It had worked well for me so far. virt-manager config example. <disk type="block" device="disk"> <driver name="qemu" type="raw" cache="none"/> <source...
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    First Server Build

    The man is trying to run a game server and has spare computer already so i do not think he needs to buy old hardware and do i have serious doubts whether his game server could actually benefit from anemic old Xeons. Sure you can nitpick on my power hungry assessment and retrospect i should have...