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  1. BackupProphet

    Supermicro - PEI Could Not Find Recovery Image

    I just want to share a issue I had with a X10DRL-I that I bought on Ebay that would not start bios as it was corrupted and I couldn't enter ipmi to flash the bios there. As there wasn't much info on Google on how to fix this I figured I could share it here. I fixed this by create a fat32 usb...
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    10TB SAS HDD 59 USD

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/395173008010
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    Is it possible to read average power consumption from a Supermicro JBOD chassis?

    I am working on a project that maps the energy use of my servers. Supermicro has execellent support for reading average power usage with 1 second interval. However I cant find anything for the JBOD chassises as they dont have ipmi, or any sensors. Would my best bet be to just get a pdu and read...
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    NFSoRDMA random pauses in transfer

    I have configured a NFS server client setup communication with RDMA with Mellanox ConnectX 3 (non-pro). I am not using Mellanox drivers, just stock Debian. Sometimes when I do "huge" data transfers, like doing over 2GB/s the transfer will pause for 1-5 seconds. Are anyone familiar with this...
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    EXPIRED Micron 7300 MAX 3.2TB 80 USD

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/364514939965
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    EXPIRED 3.84TB SATA SSD 120 USD

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/385870722113?hash=item59d7aff441:g:U40AAOSwb61kyCT4&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwFiw1iukRfniGnZRaIZNZ57vhDSKQPRR02EaWgPRA7K08QKNYfb7e0a3laeN2R0O34LKSdr80aIHSAKYYmrp8%2BngPPd28A6LZtis17lhmktGWwmn0xcCtMeCEQ2Zjgf5pAqSzqzapsqxh8xZIbuFcVh2MNKbxgheUz1XlAm%2FIbpGA5zImQpRQC93nuose%2B6zR...
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    40G SM LC-LC Transceivers, AOI 40G-LR4 or KAMAI XQX2502 40G-LR4?

    I've read through this forum and figured that many highly recommend the KAMAI transceiver The similar AOI transceiver is a lot cheaper, but has anyone tried it with the Brocade and Arista switches?
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    EXPIRED Arista 7050qx-32 10/40GbE switch 200 USD

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/235068940776?hash=item36bb3361e8:g:ErUAAOSwMeFkblWn&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4HNmkTBK9cE2wo4A0ZjWA1EPWaFqDP34C1ILuJJq5S0qj0IqFp3%2B5wDZyJ4IQkhjM3gXwK%2BioPH02jGL0meUAJVVlFhLMQhju5Tn3F7zIOQUyBlWCeoKKgjI04IGBc%2FHAV3gsPkuWHyECVPXW5YuiMrk5g2HlDZsZhbI1QxGPnROdXSm1tb198YDqZe8MePyY...
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    Super cheap LSI SAS3 controller

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/195799627527
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    Seagate based IBM SAS drives doesn't show full space.

    I got a batch with HGST and Seagate IBM SAS drives with 10TB. The HGST ones are easy to reformat (sg_format) to advanced format (from 4096 to 512 ) for full 10TB, however the Seagate ones seems to be stuck at 9.93 TB no matter what I try. This is really annoying, have anyone else experience...
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    Dell (TFJRW) LSI 9206-16e sas adapter is running hot

    I've recently configured a Supermicro 847 36 bay chassis and have this card. Even with full fan speed, I get 55 degrees C and warnings in Linux. How do people cool this card? [ 717.346323] mpt2sas_cm2: Temperature Threshold flags 0 exceeded for Sensor: 0 !!! [ 717.346333] mpt2sas_cm2...
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    14TB sata deal 4 or more for 103 USD

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/275753783745?hash=item403434d1c1:g:IVcAAOSwj1ZkGPYB&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAA4I8S9KpRO4P8Cvk3FS70NaKRRzmt6SO1SIAVAesslEZ%2FXOC3JzbBoWQyYifhIQI2n10lWXmVc11zwj2FY4i4H7wS4duEJR68XyDWWKcTpAr%2B%2BoeRTgl3Iyhm6yAm%2FAc9irm4yb0tjy8ft8bXCwKVbhD8NRWOkQJ2q%2FdAYrBH5tBSW1eRp9e2DBH37ICEr...
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    8TB SAS 25 USD + 13USD shipping, great deal for lot

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/374499536885?hash=item5731e96ff5:g:fdcAAOSwbF9j4R71&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoAzRyMfdqIy%2FZYc6tGy0s%2FvL3nwLvOY3nJDCRTpKF4QCZ6guK%2FSjVP88%2FvHavofWx2tCTMGvIQGVE%2Fysj60EROtvigrNYrO1vweQAL69cmOyAKhyOL1hUJvTp6rpcfzF7XUSgcE6QVM4F0pNEFzyt2ntuXhkTBhep4NfqESNhtoLdDOocAVoXqJSyc9qi...
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    Storage deals

    Lot of 10, 3.84tb Samsung SAS SSD...
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    What to do when you upgrade your Supermicro BMC too far?

    I recently upgraded an X9SRH motherboard to BMC version 3.61, I got the green screen (missing red color) and extremely slow delay. Installing CentOS over the BMC was a really awful experience. I see that I have an older BMC firmware for another X9 motherboard on my file system, can I downgrade...
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    15.3TB WD Western Digital DC SN640, 4 or more for $594.15/ea

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/265907271968?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D245022%26meid%3Df19754fc6a1c421cbb2b084c5f6fa93b%26pid%3D101195%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D364107588260%26itm%3D265907271968%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DSimplAML...
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    EXPIRED Best SSD deal you will get in 2022, 7.68TB NVMe U.2 HGST 328** USD

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/325401400953?hash=item4bc36f5679:g:HmcAAOSwlTVjTZyM&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAA4OtjbN3nffhXX5cv2PW7bgy3iVOP%2Fqb1KwTKUdKVwnVe0xTA%2BpFeSrLjF7nDMOM7S0rdvq5rXF9rQkoGkClvJbMwpwxworBFk8zHSq8VZF0xDTLt0Irx4%2BRy3U7qQDm44AOJsh0NX9krcS%2FMd5j3E%2FghL1v%2B1Yq1daFkM2WNWzyCsy6AaB9zMz4MKkB...
  18. BackupProphet

    HGST 7200rpm 10TB SAS $84.55

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/354112872630?hash=item5272c5a0b6:g:jHYAAOSwMtJiq6Qx&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAA4FDVOInzYDWObWoyRkU1CeeAQXLKF6jSPYDuvwHA0by3Y%2FhksGzdCd8BBYLbFkp4N8ZCLNcjQRCpE7TcoA%2BRfr5iAX0dMljUqT%2FnxcSsIGnytGisHK7EEYj2EYLWST445MdmJvBy6HQifDNyhHfdv4e%2FegNE2doQPIZK75jXI9ATAvAPgrjfszJDKxxC3Jr...
  19. BackupProphet

    Anyone has experience with hybrid (h)smr hard drives?

    Usinbg Linux, how can you convert between those two modes? Or do you get one SMR region and one CMR region?
  20. BackupProphet

    HGST Flashmax iii 2.2TB ssd $128

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/255635074643?hash=item3b8509ae53:g:zlkAAOSwD29i1PX4&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAA4LqP5up9PqV2hCdFPqO6ipGHuM85HR5B10EN0WHftmbmte6xsY5bwlHlxgOTZ%2BRDuPWAVr2qte1AlpzAbB8tEN1KHmuKIECEulgo9mHMy3hv8bjfmcRuci2x7TYlKuIivVlYkfypBAEzWqOW4A%2BMoBCMyFbuplzjVxHj%2FRkD3q4yRGQIByEYyKXiHiUo%2FIF...