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Hi All, Currently upgrading my NAS from V1 / V2 Server gear to something more modern now that prices have came down a little on the second hand market. Currently got a really good price on a ASUS Z10PA-D8 Motherboard and I am pondering whether to stick with 1 x 1650v3 CPU @ 3.4Ghz 6C/12T or...

Hi All having a clear out of my old homelab equipment. Items are located in the UK but I will post worldwide. Postage is £2.50 within the UK for all items ( I always combine postage) Postage is £8 within the Greater European Union for unlimited items ( I always combine postage) Postage is £12...

I have for sale CPU 3 x Intel Xeon E5-1620 V3 CPU 4 Core / 8 Thread 3.5Ghz - £50 1 x i7 3770 - £60 DDR4 RDIMM 12 x Hynix 16GB 1x16GB HMA42GR7AFR4N 2133Mhz ECC Registered Server DDR4 RDIMM £42 ea 6 x Hynix 16GB 1x16GB HMA42GR7MFR4N 2133Mhz ECC Registered Server DDR4 RDIMM £42 ea DDR3 UDIMM...

10 x 4TB SAS2 WD GOLD / RE4 3.5" DRIVES £75 e/a Got 10 of these drives for sale as I have upgraded to bigger disks SAS2 Hard drives in excellent full working condition, all 7200RPM and SAS2 (6GBs) Smart Data fully available prior to purchase for anyone wishing a copy of it WD Spec Sheet...

Hi All I have the following for sale : HGST SAS3 12GB/s 400GB SSDs HUSMM8040ASS204 £120 / €140 each (+ Postage) Excellent reviews here praising their performance (And the reason I bought them) HGST Ultrastar SSD800MM SAS3 Enterprise SSD Review | StorageReview.com - Storage Reviews These are...

Hi there, I am located in the UK so pricing is a lot different here than the USA :( So I am ready to take the plunge into 10GBe I have 3 ESXi Hosts and I want to connect them all at 10GB . All 3 hosts have X540-T2 RJ45 10GBe but even at that the switches are horrendously expensive. Use is to...

Hi All, I currently have 2 x LSI 9211 Cards flashed to IT Mode and they run 3 Enclosures an SC846 (Dual Expander) an SC847 (Dual Expander) and a SC936 (4 x SFF8087 no expander) I also inherited a few LSI 9300-8i Controllers. What I am asking is with the SC936 Chassis it is 4 x SFF 8087...

Hi All, Having just upgraded my HomeLab I now have 2 motherboards that have Dual Intel X540 on the motherboard. I would prefer on the third server to get a 10Gbe Card for it but the Intel X540 is expensive in the UK. Stupidly I had a Chelsio T420-BT which would have been ideal but I sold it...

Hi All, I recently snapped up a bargain here in the UK and managed to get a 24 bay SC846 and a 36 bay SC847 JBOD both with SAS2 Backplanes with expander chips for £400 / $460 which I thought was a great deal . I have a few questions though as I am new to backplanes and expanders. There was a...

Hi all. I have a SC846 and SC847 supermicro chassis and need to find some rails to mount them to my rack. Do they both share the same parts and mounts? I have some inner rails fitted already to them and they day revision b if that helps. All help appreciated. Thanks Pics. Are in Supermicro...

Hi All, Have for sale some CPU's that I have collected over time. I will post up some pictures when I get home tonight but here is the details 1 x Intel E3 - 1240 V2 | 3.40GHz | 3.80Ghz | 4C 8T | vt-d | V-Pro - £125 1 x Intel E5 - 2650 V2 | 2.60Ghz | 3.40Ghz Turbo | 8C | 16T | VT-d | V-Pro...

Hi All, Looking for some advice if possible on a CPU. I currently have a 1x 8C|16T E5-2648L @ 1.8Ghz in my GA-7PESH2 Motherboard and the machine is running ESXi 6.5 U1 with a Fusion IO card for Storage. Anyway. I have always noticed that VM performance is not as fast I would like it to be and...

just a quick one I have the Gigabyte GA7-PESH2 Motherboard which has the LSI-9211 SATA 3 on board SAS controller as well as another LSI Sata II controller onboard . I have used all the ports up on the 9211 and want to add more drives. My question is this, As an Esxi host will there be much of a...

Hi All, I have finally started to make my NAS Server and before I got a chance to set the pool up FreeNAS gave me a warning telling me that one of my drives had issues. When I checked the issues there are around 3543 Uncorrectable Sectors / Pending Sectors does this mean that they are all...

Hi All, Hope you can help. I have 3 ESXi Hosts and all have local storage on them no SAN yet and are all linked via a normal 1 GB Switch with the following config: eSXI_1 (10.0.0.101) eSXI_2 (10.0.0.102) eSXI_3 (10.0.0.103) eSXi_1 has a VCenter VM installed on it that controls all 3 hosts...

Hi All, Today (Typically) after buying some kit to build some white boxes someone I know pointed me towards the Kaby Lake Pentium G4560 and how much bang for buck it is. I see that the processor is Dual Core with HT, Supports ECC and also Vt-D and get some really impressive results in a lot...

Hi All, I currently own 4 x HP ML310e G8 Servers that are decked out with the max ram that that supports 32GB and they all have the E3-1220 V2 CPU in them. I am a VM ESXi junkie and memory is what I really need and a good amount of it, but at the same time I need a sensible trade off of cost...

Hi All, I currently have an HP ML310e G8 and whilst its a good server it is bottlenecked by the fact it only supports 32GB DDR3 UDIMM RAM and I use it as a ESXi host. The processor is a E3-1220 V2 (Quad Core no HT) and I have 2 of these servers running max ram and loaded with 4 x 3TB drives in...

Hi All, I am already impressed with FreeNAS performance even as a VM on my esxi host running some disks off a Passed Through LSI 9211-8 Card but I thought I would take a look and see what Windows offers to do an experiment. Now I have heard of Storage Spaces before but I am not sure about it...

Hi All , first of all if this is in the wrong forum please move it, I couldn't really see where else it would fit tbh. I have a collection of 5 x HP ML310e G8 Servers with the Following Spec: Intel Xeon E3-1220 V2 Quad Core CPU - 32GB DDR3 ECC RAM - ILO v4 - HP P410 Raid Card - Intel Quad NIC...