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Hey guys, For those who do not know, last week we had a "drop everything and jump on a plane" opportunity. After 2.5 years of asking, we got a 2-hour window to go look around the IT of an NFL stadium, unguided. That "Go" came about 36 hours before the window opened. Then, I got very sick to the...

Just starting this as a repository for what worked and what did not work in the Minisforum MS-01. If you test something, please put it in this thread so folks can see what works, or does not work in these systems. DDR5 SODIMMs Tested Crucial CT48G56C46S5 48GB DIMMs PCIe Cards Tested Worked...

I am not sure if this is the biggest news of the day, but it is for STH. I just got the keys to the new STH Scottsdale Studio. Electricity gets turned on tomorrow, but this is going to be the new home. For those who did not know, we have been in a degraded state since late August, and filming/...

I am in Manila flying back to Taipei to film tomorrow. This is the last airport lounge seat. Do you take it?

So some big news. We closed on a new house today. Going from awesome optical networking to something pretty meager 2011 era powerline networking. Yikes! Tomorrow we are looking at a bigger studio space closer to the new house. Big changes happening!

I am going to be around (5th city this week). Today (Saturday) I am doing a 2:05PM livestream with Jeff Geerling and Chris from Crosstalk. 3PM I should be on the PC World livestream with Wendell from L1Techs Tomorrow (Sunday) I am on the mainstage homelab panel at 3PM I am not sure what...

Hey all, Just thinking a bit here. I love the content of the Topton/ CWWK threads. Does anyone have ideas for the best way to organize them? It seems like right now we have one person with a heroic post and then we rely on search. There is only so much we can cover in reviews, and reviews are...

I might do a video or put this in its own. We got the 10Gbase-T Flex IO V2 module this week, and I thought, "Why not put it in the HP Elite Mini 800 G9 for that review?" That unleashed a saga. We put it in the HP Elite Mini 800 G9. Powered it on, and it did not accept RDP connections...

I put this on Twitter a bit ago, but here is some personal news.

Hey all, Most have noticed that I started working on the YouTube channel in Dec 2019/Jan 2020. We normally get ~100 subscribers there each day. As I am writing this, we are at 99,831, but gained 270 yesterday. That means if somehow we get 10 subscribers/ hour for the remainder of the day...

Hi all, Making a thread here. I want to have a resource for the main site talking about generations of Intel QuickAssist and the add-in cards folks can find out there. Many of the QAT cards are Intel rebranded. Also, QAT cards are usually Intel PCH's on a PCIe card. If you come across QAT...

Just documenting where the units were purchased for the STH main site piece: Topton unit: 205.01US $ 31% OFF|2022 New 2.5G pfSense Router 11th Pentium N6005 N5105 4*Intel i225 Nics NVMe 2*DDR4 Fanless Mini PC OPNsense Firewall VPN Server| | - AliExpress KingNovy unit: 213.92US $ 28% OFF|2022...

Today... we filmed in a bathroom/ washroom. It is either going to be an informative part of the video or a blooper. For those wondering, I am up in Alberta Canada doing some liquid-cooled server content. We found that 30L/ min is enough to cool ~20,000 Milan cores. In USD terms, it is roughly...

Hey all. This just arrived somehow. The part numbers seem to be: M74416-001 L83414-002 Just ordered via HP Parts Store and they are on backorder.

I think I just found what may be my favorite TinyMiniMicro node until Alder Lake. HP EliteDesk 805 Mini G8 - AMD Ryzen 5750GE - NVIDIA RTX 1660Ti - Upgraded to 64GB of RAM - 1GbE + 2.5GbE (not kidding) Only took about a month and a half and was $1200. It is pretty noisy. It chugs power, but...

Preparing for the Superbowl I am doing my first whole hog BBQ. Doing a 50lb hanging heritage pig. Not too big, but I am very worried about the size v. the smoker size. Table prep. I am fairly certain this is going to be a mess. Plan is: Day 0 prep Feet off to have a chance to fit in the...

This is interesting. I purchased an HP EliteDesk 805 G6 on ebay. The seller basically gave me a 1GbE FlexIO NIC instead of the 8GB RAM stick. I was very excited. Then I tried replacing the USB-C with Power Flex IO with the 1GbE NIC he sent, and it did not work. I realized the newer models use...

Another year, another thread. Links to the long-lived 2017, 2020, and 2021 threads. Feel free to post your biggest hardware failures of 2022 in this thread. Kicking this one off, two Seagate Exos X12 12TB drives that failed at the same time out of eight in the NAS. We will have another one...

Hey all, We are taking advantage of the slow holiday week and doing some upgrades. If you see something funky on STH this weekend, including the forums, then that is what is going on. Should be very short downtimes for each one. For example, we have a Proxmox VE server just doing backups, it...

Since this did not get auto-posted to the forums (likely my fault): Dude this should NOT be in a Dell Switch… or HPE Supercomputer We go into why an entire line of high-end Dell switches and possibly even a HPE Cray US military supercomputer have misspelled stickers that say American...