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My ISP upgraded my internet to 2gig speed, my MB is SuperMicro X9DRI-LN4F+ has a 1000Mb card. What SuperMicro NIC should i get that will work with this MB? I see 10gb NIC from 29 dollars all the way to 300 dollars on ebay, not sure what to get.

Are these Western Digital HSRM drives Enterprise Grade? How is the performance and reliability on this one? Will they be good for RAID storage using TrueNAS?

I have recently moved from Chicago to Houston, and have setup a server room, and setup my rack in it. There are cables dropping from the ceiling and ethernet cables everywhere hanging over my rack. Need help with someone who is good with cable management in the Houston/suburbs of houston area...

I have about 3 dozen cat6 cables dropping from the ceiling into the server room. This is a home setup, the cables drop right over the Server rack. And right now i have just tied the cables in the attic with a wood frame. I need to reduce the tension of the wires dropping into the server room. As...

So i see several KVM switches sold on amazon and newegg, but they all have emulated EDID, i am looking for a DUal monitor KVM Switch preferably hdmi with Real EDID switching, so basically a corporate grade device.

I am just looking to replace my supermicro chassis, as i feel my case is really old, the older fans and all. I need a little bit newer model that was released in the past 6 or 7 years or under

After a reboot one of my server wont come back online, and is constantly looping at the boot with Initializing 42 at display for a fraction of a second on the boot screen. After reading online i found there could be several issues like the CMOS battery, dead ram, bad fan etc. It turns out that...

I am looking for a 44U middle atlantic rack with side panels. The server should be above 24". Mainly should be able take supermicro servers.

My ESXi install is busted after 3 years of run. I guess the USB flash drive crapped out after its lifecycle has ended. I am using a X10 line of Supermicro mother to be exact this one X10DRi I have the USB plugged into the motherboard, and right now to replace it i will have to pull apart the...

Looking for a used in good condition Fortinet Fortigate 100e firewall appliance

I am trying to replace the fans on the 4u supermicro chassis due to the current fan's dying, and hence the fans are oscillating up and down going slow to fast, and then back to slow speed. And I have populated only half of the drive bays, with the enterprise grade HGST 7200 rpm drives. I've...

So I have about 12 drives in my SuperMicro SC846TQ 4U chassis. The drives get inexessively hot at 115 degrees. I am able to connect to the IPMI through the web browser with the correct IP address, and each time I try to change the fan speed to higher lower or moderate it makes no affect on the...

Consider this thread closed. I brought the Memory modules already. I am in the market for 16GB or 32GB DDR3 SDRAM ECC Unbuffered DDR3L 1600MHz memory Should be either 8x4 memory module or 16x2 or 32GB is fine as well, I have 4 memory slots in my SUPERMICRO MBD-X10SL7-F-O Motherboard, hence. I...

I'd like to add a second node for HA for my ESXI host. This is mainly for network availability while the primary node is down. So I'd like to keep the power consumption extremely low for this server. I was initially researching on a fully ready to go R710 that can be had for under 200 bucks used...

I am in the market for a cpu/motherboard combo that supports 1gbps internet bandwith with IPS turned on with Suricata and pfsense. Currently I am on Sophos, and Snort is single threaded, when IPS is enabled, it throttles my bandwith from 900mb/sec to 200mb/sec I am told inorder for snort to work...

NVME prices going down, will it affect memory prices? New NVMe drive less than 150 bucks now for 1TB, 2tb can be had for 250 or so.. will this trend affect the memory prices as well?

Hi all, So i have a SAS2 backplane in my supermicro 4U server, and this is powered by esxi. I am using unraid os for media server. I have a few 8TB hgst enterprise grade SATA disks, I got some good deal for HGST 8tb enterpise SAS drives. Can i mix two of these drives in the same array?

Hi all, I have brought 2x E5-2680 V2 and SuperMicro X9DRI-LN4F+ motherboard. After assembling it, the server does not post. I have a feeling that the motherboard is not compatible with this CPU. Have been reading it online about people having issues with this setup, similar to mine. So please...

Hi am looking forward to buy this chassis. NORCO RPC-2106 https://www.amazon.com/NORCO-Hot-Swappable-Server-Chassis-RPC-2106/dp/B008EKYEAA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1524715066&sr=8-1&keywords=RPC-2106 This is a 2U chassis, and i have no clue which silent psu can go with it, amazon recommends a...

Everything was working fine for me until last night a power outage killed my USB, and i had to reinstall esxi on a new USB, and re-import all the vm's back. Everything is working fine now, except that my storage server is not starting cos the LSI card is not found. I have enabled the LSI card...