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1st quad-port i226 NIC on ebay? https://www.ebay.com/itm/204610146660 https://www.ebay.com/itm/276272284148 Its outer design looks like it was designed by a same company/team. This price closes to IOCrest's quad-port i225-v NIC today: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805148027460.html

Thinking to add another Proxmox VE server to home lab. The Lenovo M70s/M80s/M90s 1st gen. Both of their chipsets, H470 and Q470, can use 11th gen Intel CPUs. But I searched the computer model names and "11700" or "11900", haven't found anyone with these machines mentioned about i7 11700 or i9...

Probably this is not a deal, since 100%sRGB panels are popular. But it has a 10-bit panel and accuracy rating is delta<2. Low blue light and non-flicker features. Dell Ultrasharp U3023E 30-inch 10-bit 100%sRGB monitor $449...

Probably this is not a deal since the R510 is on retiring, but its end of support date is Dec 2028. Ruckus Wireless ZoneFlex R510 Wireless Access Point (9U1-R510-US00), free shipping, $34 https://www.ebay.com/itm/116048231260 (1) The seller notes that the serial numbers on the AP and box will...

Hardware: QNAP intel x86_64 CPU 4-bay NAS box, probably released around year 2016-2018; Software: Proxmox VE 7 and 8. All the processes are following the NASCompares.com blog, "The How to Install Proxmox on your QNAP NAS – Step By Step Guide", except of some additional notes. link: How to...

The Qotom Denverton fanless system thread (link) has some posts about Maiwo brand 4-bay and 8-bay mini-SAS interface enclosures. I re-post them here. Thanks @SlowmoDK for his initial post(link) of the aliexpress link to the 4-bay Maiwo mini-sas interface enclosure. (aliexpress link : 3.5" Four...

Has anyone some experience on the 2.5Gbps RJ45 to SFP module for Brocade and Mikrotik switches? I have tried the ONTi brand from aliexpress, but failed on the Brocade switch.

CWWK 6-bay cpu J6412 NAS barebone $320, no OS, no memory, no storage drives(prime only): https://www.amazon.com/CWWK-J6412-SATA-i226-V-Network/dp/B0BZVDSL6R/ If the user knows to install Proxmox VE or other type 1 hypervisor, and TrueNAS Scale or other NAS system, it is a good deal, comparing...

Qotom made another mini PC equipping with low power desktop CPUs, Intel H610 chipset and 12th and 13th gen CPU: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806004462204.html 2 ddr4 sodimm slots, and its shipping fee is high.

Micron 5100 PRO 960GB M.2 SATA new for $47.6 OBO + $8.15 shipping https://www.ebay.com/itm/155761880688 model: MTFDDAV960TCB Datasheet: https://www.mouser.com/datasheet/2/671/5100_ssd-1283974.pdf Recent months, Micron 5100/5200 series 960gb (m.2 sata and 2.5 inch sata) have some low prices on...

The Raspberry Pi 5 was released. link: Raspberry Pi 5 – Raspberry Pi But it looks like the Raspberry Pi specific Broadcom BCM2712 hasn't came with an NPU. It seems the features from NPU are not important in the North American and Western Europe users. Its competitor, Rockchip, low end...

Bought a mini PC barebone from Minisforum. It equips with a gaming laptop CPU(intel) and dual i225 NICs. The storage allows 1x 2280 m2 nvme slot and 1x sata drive. (Its sata cable looks like a specifically designed laptop part and very tiny. I think STHers here is familiar with other parts from...

The BliKVM has an allwinner h616 soc based variant. Its hdmi capturing chip was changed to MS2131 comparing to the v1, v2 and v3 variant. Documents of BliKVM(v1, v2, v3 and v4): https://wiki.blicube.com/blikvm/en/ Aliexpress Bli official store link...

Planning to build a mixed CPU architecture k3s cluster for fun. OS: arm64 SBCs to use armbian or another debian variant; amd64 CPUs on Proxmox 7/8 and use Debian bookworm as the guest VMs' OS. Software: k3s Hardware: (1) 2 x rk3566 SBCs: 4gb ram, 32gb micro sd card; (2) 1 x rk3588s SBC: 8gb...

Amazon.com has AOC U34P2, 34 inch with > 100% sRGB and AdobeRGB, only $300, too good to be true? AOC and Benq are pretty old brands of monitor products. But this one's sRGB and AdobeRGB specs on amazon.com are different from the same model number on displayspecifications.com website.

Sandisk cloudspeed eco, model SDLFNCAR-960G-1HA1 I tried SmartMonTools and SandiskGuard. Their SMART information is not the same on the health percentage, and smartctl's result has error logs. SmartMonTools result as below: CrystalDiskInfo SandiskGuard 1.2.4 SMART inforamtion Below is the...

I found that the Sillicom brand quad-port bypass adapter (model: PE2G4BPI35LA) is built on Intel i350-am4 chip. (product page and spec sheet) Also, its 2nd-hand ebay price is usually lower than true/fake Intel i350-t4 NICs. I did know pfSense doesn't need bypass NIC ports to be used as an...

Amazon posted 2 combos for intel CPU + optane 900p pcie card, by amazon.com and shipping from amazon.com. Probably they are deals of desktop cpu. i9-12900k + 280gb optane 900p pcie card, $353 https://www.amazon.com/Intel-i9-12900K-Desktop-Processor-Unlocked/dp/B0C41K9B7D/ i9-12900kf + 280gb...

Around 2 to 2.5 years after when the EPYC Rome released, so many 2nd hand 2nd gen epyc cpus had been sold on ebay. And its motherboards, too. What happened to the EPYC 2nd gen CPUs and its boards? A guess: Since they were usually used in data centers, have their failure rates reached a level...

Just saw a video about finding a 2nd hand server for the budget around 5000rmb (usd to rmb is around 6.8rmb for 1 usd, data from google) Hardware spec on the screenshot(original video link, in Chinese language): Dell R730, E5-2680v4 * 2, ddr4 ram 16G * 8, 6TB SAS drive * 5, H730p card, PSU...