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Howdy, I recently bought a barebones Hyve V1 off eBay to build a Pfsense system. My plan was to use 2 x E5-2630L V2s. Realistically I only need the 1 but I need the second to use the PCI-E slot which I planned to use for a SFP card to run back to my core switch. Initially, the system arrived...

I've been running a 3 node hyperconverged cluster on Proxmox with Ceph for almost a year now. Recently I had a particular single threaded workload that really benefits from fast cores so I added a fourth node to the cluster with a much faster CPU but limited other resources. It allows me to...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/254670944290 Saw these show up again for under 200$. I thought I'd post a screenshot so when it gets StH'd and jumps to 400$ at least people can see the history. Claims to be at least 90% drive life left which should be ~12.5PBW.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1550572-REG/ I've been watching these to shuck for drives to populate my little home CEPH cluster as some of the pricing appears to finally be recovering from Chiapocalypse. I was just about to buy this drive for 271$ from Amazon when I got the email for...

I'm just getting my little home lab setup and I've got 2 servers (R210ii with an E3-1240V2, and a R420 with 2xE5-2430L) running ConnectX-3 VPI cards flashed to 40Gbe connected together through DACs to the two 40Gbe ports on an ICX6610 switch. I've run iperf3 to try to see if the network is...