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Looking for a deal on a couple 40G NICs. ideally intel XL710 that can take QSFPs.

Was looking for hardware raid for now. have this box with a chenbro, then linked to another case with just a power supply and chenbro in it.

Looking to upgrade the drives in my old raid 6 array. from what I’ve read the LSI/3Ware 9750-4i will only handle 4TB drives - so I’d like to find something that can go 8TB and beyond (read somewhere there is a 4K limitation) not sure if that’s true. But does anyone have recommendations for...

And to get it workiing on Proxmox8 (not entirely sure i needed to this, but its working) apt-get install gcc make dkms pve-headers wget https://www.mellanox.com/downloads/MFT/mft-4.22.1-417-x86_64-deb.tgz tar -xzvf mft-4.22.1-417-x86_64-deb.tgz ./tar -xzvf mft-4.22.1-417-x86_64-deb/install.sh...

As of feb. 7 with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS iso sudo su #! /bin/sh apt update && apt install gcc make dkms unzip linux-headers-$(uname -r) # NVIDIA Firmware Tools (MFT) (use an archive version 4.30.1-8 LTS - 4.26.1 no longer supports cx3 NVIDIA Firmware Tools (MFT)) wget...

Thanks for the replies - The XQX2502 KAIAM QSFP+40G-LR4's should be be here tomorrow, along with a couple "10M OS2 LC to LC Fiber Patch Cable, Single Mode SFP Fiber Jumper, Duplex LC-LC 9/125um, LSZH, 33ft, for 1G/10G SMF SFP Transceiver, Router, Fiber Networks and More" fiber cables...

Question here: when flashing a MCX354A-QCBT (649281-B21 on ebay) to a MCX354A-FCBT (full 40gbE enabled), can you use QSFP+ modules in the cards? Are there any limitations with what transceiver 'types' you can use?

Looking for some PCIe cards that can take QSFP+ modules From what I've read QSFP+ transceivers will fit and work in QSFP28 ports I have a Brocade 6610 Brand new to fiber, And have a couple of questions: 1) Did I buy the right thing here? I have some XQX2502 KAIAM QSFP+40G-LR4 modules on...

Got a 6610-48P and looking for SFP+ and QSFP+ transceivers.. Also looking for the most cost effective way to do all this... For 10G SFPP modules and QSFP modules (I'd like to get some official brocade ones, as my reading here suggests that Ill be able to get more stats/monitoring out of them)...

Anyone have an EPYC based build they are using for Virtualization? That they care to share the specs on? I'd like to build something where i can deploy VMs and Containers and wondering what other experiences were? I think ideally if im going to do this i like dual cpus, and a total of 32 or 64...

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I've been thinking / planning a new build. Originally i was thinking I wanted to build something out with Dual Epyc CPUs, was hoping to find some 64core chips on the 2nd hand market. If i were to find something i liked - what would be a good nvidia card for this? Has anyone built something...

Anyone happen to have a fan wall for the 120mm fans they might want to sell? I found them on line 25$ at amazon, 11$ at ipc. But thought i would ask here first.

Anyone know where to get a decent deal on some SFF-8087 to SFF-8087 cables? Also anyone have any recommended brands or ones to stay away from? looks like most deals are ~ 10 bux each Coboc 6 ft. USB 2.0 A Male to Mini-B 5-pin Male Cable (Gray)-Newegg.com...

Looking for a Chenbro 36 port card, If you have one send me a PM and let me know what your wanting for it.

Here's my post from back in 2012 on the 3tb drives... if you wanna open them without damaging them. Toshiba announces 12 new 3.5"desktop drives I kept all the boxes and everything incase i needed to return one for warranty... But i did the same thing cuz they were quite a bit cheaper! I've...

So I'm sure someone has done this and there has to be a few ways to do it... But my raid is near capacity I want to add a second case with a lot of drives in the second case I only want the following: -sas expander (chenbro) -pe-2sd1?? -power supply I want to run a SFF-8088 from case 1 (with...

I did talk to the seller (I made an offer for no hdds, got mine with 0 sleds) seller said it was in the disclaimer that it came with no extras, even though I wanted the sleds just NO Hard Drives... The seller offered them at 5 bux a piece... anyway, I found someone selling 12 for 40 bux on ebay...

Those of you who bought this auction: Dell C6100 C6105 Cloud Server 6X 1 8GHz AMD 6 Core Hex Core 144GB RAM 3X 250GB | eBay Did you receive the HDD Sleds??

wow... if they show up back in stock - i might pick one up.. but dont know what id do with it now ;)