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Well, i jumped in with both feet. I got an offer for a ICX6610 for around 80 shipped in my inbox this morning so i took the plunge. I figure the juniper 4200-48p has similar power consumption to the brocade so replacing one with the other should mainly build out the 10gb connections with no...

The xikestor is $160 on amazon right now. But that would work perfect for just SFP+ expansion off the juniper switch. So many ways to go here. I don't have a good handle on how much power the juniper is pulling. I'd guess it's at least 120W as it sits. I have a lot of POE devices, phones...

That thread is so gigantic. I'm a bit blown away by it. Ha, the Brocade can't be any louder than the Juniper 4200. It's like a jet engine with dual supplies.

Or should i just go for the gusto and get a ICX6610? What would the 7250 give me over that?

Interesting. I had thought to just add a 2nd switch with primarily SFP+ ports and use that as 10G backbone, but maybe it makes more sense to swap out the Juniper EX4200 for a Brocade 7250? I won't say never, but i'm not sure when i would need faster than 10G. I only upgraded to 1G a year ago...

I've been setting up 10gb to replace my existing 1gb stuff. I have a fiber haul to my workshop about 100M away from the main rack. The rack has most of the servers in it, 2 proxmox nodes and some other stuff. I have a juniper EX4200 as my main switch, with full POE. The 10gb stuff, i'm just...

Looking to pickup a Supermicro X11DPH or similar. What's out there? Not liking what i see on the bay right now. Not that worried about 10Gb network, just would like dual scalable sockets and preferably dual nvme with lots of pcie slots. This is for a proxmox build in a SC836 chassis. If...

I was just looking at that. I had a counteroffer at 259.

Cool, but just wondering what use a home lab has for Infiniband? I deal with this sometimes on clusters, which makes sense, but in a home?

Just a final update. I whacked off both ends of the outer rails, matched up the holes in the angle and drilled two new holes. The outers then bolted onto the rack and the SC836 slid right in. I picked up a 2nd 836 on Saturday and that will just go on the angle. Other than not being able to...

Any opinions on which are better? Exos or Ultrastar?

Yeah, i have a machine shop and can fabricate, but there's something to be said for something designed to do a task well. I can slide my servers out on the angle, but they need to be supported. Maybe i can whack ends off the outer rails and just drill holes. I'll come up with something...

Yeah there's no square holes on my rack at all. Maybe i have a different kind of rack. It's standard width 19" but i think was full of instrumentation before i got it. Weighs a metric crap ton. That thing never comes out of the basement in my lifetime i think. I can shoot a picture of the...

Ok, sounds like don't use them then. The outer rails aren't even close to being able to use in my rack. My rack uses sliding square nuts in extrusions that look like 80/20 but are smaller. I've been using angle iron as shelves on each side and cases just sit on those and the front mounts get...

My new SC836 case came with these: I don't know how the rack rail would attach. The existing rails use screws direct into the extrusion. These are some sort of clip ins. The inner rails look like they slide right into the SC835 no problem.

Those drives are now bumped up in price. ~ $155 now.

Yeah it sure is. Now i'm back on the hunt for a NAS motherboard. Puts me weeks behind again. I threw a large chunk of metal up on top of the server rack. So at least it won't happen again in any event. Edit: Found an additional X11SAE from the same person as i got the last one, so i should...

The 6th gen was just going to run the NAS and the mythtv backend. The i7-10400F was going to do the transcoding, or even the Nvidia M40 if i can get that running. It's not intended to run all the time, just when i want to play with VMs or do number crunching. the i5-6700 was just for light...

Not real excited about storing data in the cloud. Trust issues.

Oh really? Dang. Maybe i stay away from h265 then. Most of my recording is h264. some streams are MPEG2, those could be 264 i guess. it's only hard drive space... On a sour note, the X11SAE was dead tonight, right after i got it running last night. I took the motherboard out of the...