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    Intel DC P4610 6.4TB U.2 3 DWPD $349

    Honestly though, after this chia mining craze, I am very suspicious of used storage. I was not aware SMART info could be wiped or altered, so all these SSD's that are flooding the market as new/unused are just a huge red flag in general. I don't really care if they come from china or usa...
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    UK 15.36TB Samsung PM1733 NVMe SSDs for £389.99, plus other bits from the same seller

    too bad they dont ship to the US. 3 of these would completely replace my Freenas box. They probably need to be formatted from 520b to 512b, but i'm not sure if that is the case with nvme drives. I know sas drives needed to be reformatted.
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    EXPIRED Intel P3605 1.6TB NVME 2.5" $55

    I tried 44 for 3 each, declined. Trying 45 for 3.
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    Mellanox Connectx-3 pro 40gbe vs connectx-4 LX 25 gbe

    I've used both, and they're both pretty performant. The only issue with the CX-3 is lack of esxi 8.0 support, which is pretty stupid IMHO.
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    AMD EPYC 7302p+ Supermicro H11SSL-i version 2

    That was REALLY quick shipping. Fedex just dropped off the box - 6 days from China to East coast.
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    AMD EPYC 7302p+ Supermicro H11SSL-i version 2

    Hi @ebay tugm4470 , I just bought 3 of the combos with 3 of the 4u heat sinks. Thanks !
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    EXPIRED Precision 7820 Tower, dual Silver 4110, 32gb, 1tb ssd, P600 $349 shipped

    Thanks for the heads up. I bought it and they shipped it out the same day. Got it today and it was slightly better packaging. They added heavy paper to pad the sides. Looks good - I haven't had a chance to fire it up as yet but it does look like I also got a ram upgrade, 64gb instead of 32gb...
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    SanDisk CloudSpeed Eco 1.92TB 2.5" SATA $120

    Probably ZIL, its an RMS-200 so not an actual SSD. Nevertheless its 8GB of excellent performance.
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    Dell PowerEdge R630 8SFF Barebones - $119/ea

    Did these come with heatsinks or do they need to be purchased separately ? Reading is key, lol. Sorry I got a bit excited. Power supply, cpu, cpu heatsink, memory, HBA cabling, HBA, and NIC are needed to make one of these useable. The cost still came in way under buying one outright
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    Flashing HP H220 SAS card to latest FW

    Would you be able to share the link to the files and firmware used ? I'm trying to update my h220 card from 15.x.x to 20.x.x.6.
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    Samsung SSD PM1643 3.8TB SAS 12Gb/s MZ-ILT3T8A 2.5" @ $289.98

    Does anyone have the updated firmware. Took mine offline in fear of losing them to the firmware bug.
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    Recommend a vSAN all flash cache drive?

    RE the radian RMS-200, have you used it as a vsan cache ? I've been looking and could not find any instance of these being used with vmware.
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    Datto Xeon D 1541 board -- $501.15 shipped + 6/8% ebay bucks for some

    I've had them in towers ever since I bought them - https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/supermicro-xeon-d-fcbga-1667-heatsink-information.10397/page-10#post-194053 Still running 24/7 in my homelab and they rarely go above ~44C. They are running my lab vsan cluster.
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    Samsung SSD PM1643 3.8TB SAS 12Gb/s MZ-ILT3T8A 2.5" @ $289.98

    Mine came in with 520bit sector size. I tried using sg_utils in ubuntu 18.04 but couldnt get it to work. Ended up loading freenas and doing a camcontrol format. They are now loaded in my vSAN cluster - going to use them as storage drives. Edit: Commands used were - # camcontrol cmd daxx -v -c...
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    HPE EC200A Xeon D-1518 'hybrid server' on ebay ~$150

    I dont think these heatsinks can be replaced - the formfactor is too niche to be able to make one. You could try taking it apart and making a custom water cooling loop. I've found that its a whole lot quieter if they arent loaded with 3.5" drives, as those will impede airflow.
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    HPE EC200A Xeon D-1518 'hybrid server' on ebay ~$150

    Its a pretty capable little machine. Can definitely run a small cluster of them. Would be even better if you can find the network card add-in for it.
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    HPE EC200A Xeon D-1518 'hybrid server' on ebay ~$150

    Speaking of CPU temps, does anyone know howto make it show up in pfsense ? Neither of the options seem to work.
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    HPE EC200A Xeon D-1518 'hybrid server' on ebay ~$150

    I personally think the EC200a is far superior to any of the tinyminimicro's, but it isn't sustainable. Once this current supply runs out, it might be hard to find replacements. Also the upgrades for it are few and pretty hard to find at a reasonable cost. But it does have its own niche - having...
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    HPE EC200A Xeon D-1518 'hybrid server' on ebay ~$150

    Actually 20-30 seconds might not be bad. Some ML's i've seen take almost 2 minutes to boot to OS