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Er… I let experts comment whether it is even possible to have both NVDIMM-N and NVDIMM-P in the same system, but Optane DCPMM in Memory Mode needs RAM in 1:4 to 1:8 ratio, so "large" 16 GB NVDIMM-N would be barely enough to support the smallest 128 GB Optane.

I don't know whether it is +40%, but it's not going down… https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/10/memory-supplies-are-only-getting-tighter-micron-ceo-says/ Converting production lines towards HBM must be the part that hurts much.

My understanding of the "serious" answer is that since these DGX Spark use similar nVidia hardware to your big H200 servers, they can be used for (human!) development and prototyping, including some clustering part, of workloads to be run on the "big iron" when ready for deployment. Of course...

Strix/Gorgon Halo can scale out at 10G. [Edit: This is a solution. I do not mean that this is a good scale out solution…] The newer MacStudio reportedly can scale out over Thunderbolt 5 at 80 Gb/s. Not the same as 200 Gb/s, but I suspect that Apple will make 80Gb/s RDMA "just work" out of the...

However there never was the promised follow-up with a full STH review. Key being the quotes around "easily", I suppose… You already pointed that it is not capable of full dual 25Gb/s. As 10G router, what's the benefit over OPNsense on a X10SDV board?

As a matter of principle, I would trust the manual over any Artificial Idiot… Worst case, you'd use a SFF-8643 to SFF-8644 adapter to turn some of ports A-E to external.

Flash BIOS/EFI on your card, it might have been removed.

Welcome! Out of curiosity only (not interested in a single module): $350 or $380? What does "INT-JO" stands for? Selling internationally from Jordania?

Mind that Xeon D-1500 is sub-10 W at idle but Xeon D-2100 is 50-60 W idle.

Supported configurations are described here, page 7: https://www.supermicro.com/support/resources/memory/X12_memory_config_guide.pdf X12 is less flexible than X11. You have to do 6+1, leaving one channel unpopulated, or get two more for 4+4. And, for whatever reason, you can't use 1Rx8 RDIMM...

Well, you should certainly define your needs and decide on a motherboard before getting a case. You have not described any NAS function, so I do not see the point for a large case. The virtualisation stuff can be done in a mini-PC or equivalent. In the current market this strongly points...

@gb00s Very useful information, thanks!

It showed up as "pmem0" under Storage>Drives in the FreeCORE GUI, just alongside the like of "ada0" and "nvme0".

I could not resist the rash to experiment with exotic-hardware-I-do-not-really-have-a-clear-use-case-for, so I ended up with two 16GB NVDIMM-N 320 MHz, for which I could only source one Agiga9811 power bank and cable. On a X11SPM motherboard, new NVDIMM related options appear in BIOS. The...

Well, if the CPU is unobtainium you will save a lot by not buying DDR5 RAM to go with it… :p

X10SDV (Xeon D-1500) and (some) A2SDi (Atom C3000) motherboards provide onboard 10 GBase-T in mini-ITX size and make great small NAS. No need for a x1 NIC card.

Copper or fibre is a matter of PHY. What you're asking about is a matter for the driver of the actual NIC behind this PHY. Historically, Realtek drivers have been heavily tilted towards browsing and gaming (single user stuff) under Windows, and known to collapse under the kind of heavy...

Congratulations. Out of curiosity, are you going for a full switch to ZFS on Unix (OmniOS, FreeBSD)/Unix-like (Linux), or using OpenZFSonWindows as a stepping stone? All RAID is software, it's just a matter of where the software RAID runs. ;)

Thanks! So you can actually advertise some "content" for 15.2: Update to FreeBSD 15.2 as base; no interface change or additional functionality planned for now.

As said, it is intended to be used in a rack enclosure with rack case fans. TDP drops from 45 W to 35 W if SMT is disabled in BIOS. But the I/O die of these embedded EPYC still uses more power at idle than a comparable Xeon D-1521.