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Disclaimer: This is not a "why not just buy XYZ chassis that would fit your needs" thread, it's more of a hack/fun experiment and potentially lower power bills :) Current setup (125W with drives spun down, 190W drives running): Supermicro X9 C602 with 1x E5-2670 Xeon + 64GB RAM ESXi 6.7...

I've noticed that many "active" threads in this subforum are often deals taken in past which have evolved into on-going discussions by members who got the deal. This causes the first page of the Great Deals to be cluttered with many threads that are not really "Deals". Suggestion: Option1...

Looking for a Xeon v3/v4 board, only requirement is ILOM/IPMI. single socket preferably Integrated SAS controller is a plus Merry Christmas everyone

Hi folks, I have (2) WD Ultrastar DC SN640 NVME drives that was never used, 0TB written. I was going to run them in my workstation but decided M.2 drives are a better fit and easier to mount. Asking $160 shipped/pp in lower 48. $300 if you grab both. I'm a long time member here and have...

Just curious if this works? I'm on a PCI-e 3.0 X99 platform and one of these cards seems to get me close to PCI-e 4x NVME SSDs? https://semiconductor.samsung.com/us/ssd/enterprise-ssd/pm1725b/

Reading Patrick's article about AMD EPYCs "OEM locked" to signed firmwares made me think about really for the past few generations we seem to really be at the end of "cheap repurposed server gear" esp. in the CPU area. As Intel has gone Socket 3647 since Skylake and 4677 for Ice Pickle, while...

Many tech forums I frequent has a Perpetual Freebies thread for members to exchange free items they no longer use and pay things forward. I've gotten permission from Patrick to start something similar here at STH, I don't have a lot of high end gear but you never know, something sitting in your...

Just got a X10SLL-F board to start a new build and ran into a weird issue, first some background. Currently have a Core i3 4130 mounted, didn't get ECC UDIMM (my bad) so the main system isn't up and running (I read a thread where others have gotten non-ECC UDIMMs to work but apparently that was...

Not sure which forum to put this in but here goes... I'm trying to move parents setup do a virtualized (ESXi + Windows VMs) setup as it's too much work "fixing" their machines with various software/hardware issues that just seems to come up often. I have my own homelab already setup and will...

Hi folks, I have a question about APM settings and Standby and how they are related? Specifically when using hdparm to control the parameters and behavior on drives, according Archlinux Wiki: hdparm - ArchWiki hdparm -B sets the APM value between 0-255, and that "Values from 1 to 127 permit...

Older Xeon E3 boards, the seller has several models but I found one that's really interesting: Inventec Server Motherboard LGA 1155 DDR3 B421GA0 SAS & SATA plugs, SPF port | eBay These seem to be specially OEM versions as model number doesn't yield any info on Google, I've also asked the...

I'm a bit stumped here, I've just attempted P26 kernel module install from the Broadcom/Avago package: SAS 9300-8e Host Bus Adapter This is technically for my LSI 2308 SAS2 controller, but the module package includes both mpt3sas and mpt2sas files. Here's the install, no errors...

Hi all, Recently I've upgraded my home lab/storage server, mainly the chip/board/storage controller: Motherboard: Supermicro X8DTE-F to Supermicro X9DRD-7LNF CPU: Dual L5630 Xeons to Single E5-2670 Storage Controller (PCIe passthrough) - Dell H200 (LSI 2008) to LSI 2308 IT Mode (onboard on the...

Is it just me or anyone else experience a high number of STH results in their Google search dealing with enterprise hardware and setups, VMs etc. It seems to me that often one of the top 3 results will be STH forum thread and usually that's the one with a solution or actual clue to resolving my...

Hi folks, Still tinkering with my new build, with my X9DRD-7LNF4 board and onboard LSI2308 controll, it doesn't seem to allow me to configure SR-IOV in ESXi 6.7. I've done the install and enabled all relevant options I can find in the BIOS but VMWare reports the device as not being SR-IOV...

Hi all, Just completed my new build so the "core" of my trusty ESXi box is up to grabs. It's served me very well and has been rock solid for past 3 years, all BIOS, firmware etc has been updated to latest. Details: Supermicro X8DTE-F Dual Xeon L5630 low power cpus 12x 4GB Micron DDR3 ECC...

Hi all, Working on my next build and was about to get a nice Supermicro X9DRD-7ln4f, my top choice was actually Gigabyte GA-7PESH2, as it ticks all the main features I wanted: Dual socket, standard EATX form factor Square ILM heatsink mount 16 RAM slots full compliment of PCIe from single CPU...

Hi folks, In the process of planning out my next build, I have a E5-2670 left over from last year and getting a Supermicro X9DRD-7LN4F to run it. I know from the block diagrams that only 3 of the PCIe slots will be available for access with a single CPU, but will the blank ones be at least...

Hi all! Been doing some consolidating and updating of hardware in my ESXi box and trying to run a HTPC VM through it by adding a PCI-e video card and passing through to a PlexVM. Current Config (abridged): Supermicro X8DTE-F + 2x L5630 CPU 48GB RAM Lots of drives ESXi 5.5 with VMs Running...

Hi all, Recently acquired a Dell H200 to flash into IT mode and use to drive a ZFS array. The card arrived but it isn't recognized by any systems I have, mostly older non-UEFI boxes. No additional screen during POST and neither SAS2FLSH or MEGAREC can see the card. I have a H200 currently in...