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  1. OBasel

    Any reason not to buy higher port switches?

    I have a few small switches around 16 and 24 ports each. I'm noticing that I'll use 1-2 ports to uplink on each so my net ports are lower. I'm thinking I'll just buy a 48 or 52 port 1G switch and a 32 port 40G switch. I'll just slice the bigger switches into VLANs if I want to have a "physical"...
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    xmrstak - Choose specific GPU to mine with?

    Depends on what you're mining but yea.
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    Do Xeon E3-1245 V6 necessarily need to use ECC?

    Just use ECC. Save headache if you buy desktop memory and find it doesn't work.
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    Seagate 960gb nvme u.2 $287

    It's down to $282 now and includes a PCIe to U.2 adapter Seagate Nytro XF1440 SSD ST960KN0001 960GB 2.5" Internal PCIe 3.0 x4 (NVMe) 1TB 763649088326 | eBay
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    2TB SSD $270

    These have been dumped for the last few weeks. No plp. Pass in servers.
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    New 1.92TB SanDisk Cloudspeed Eco Gen2 $400

    They're pretty good. Some are hitting $300. This is $319 but lots available and says 0 hours. SDLF1CRR-019T-1HA1 SanDisk 1.92TB SATA 6Gb/s CloudSpeed Eco Gen II SSD 0-HOURS 619659137953 | eBay
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    pfsense: A 'meltdown' of a different sort?

    Bad way to handle this for sure. But I like the project. That guy need to stay out of PR
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    Core Density.

    Huh? I mean the obvious reason you have more cores on the core line is that you have less cache, less RAM channels, less PCIe, circuits for multiple sockets. The problem with core is that for most people RAM is a bigger constraint. If you're saying that storage, networking, memory bandwidth...
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    pfSense IPsec Site-to-Site?

    AES is huge for this I believe
  10. OBasel

    4800x for $1000

    Just that you can save money by not overbuying endurance @T_Minus more capacity and lower cost with the 900p
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    4800x for $1000

    Enhanced Power Loss Data Protection = Yes Intel® Product Specification Comparison On endurance, 480 * 10 per day versus 375 * 30 per day so sure That extra 105GB is like a 375GB at almost 13 drive writes per day 480GB 900p is 8.76pb writes so I doubt anyone here is going to hit that on a...
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    Intel Optane 900p SSD Released in AIC and U.2 Form Factors

    Yea I got in from newegg.
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    Intel Optane 900p SSD Released in AIC and U.2 Form Factors

    Intel Optane SSD 900P (280GB, 2.5in w/ M.2 Connector PCIe 3.0 x4, 20nm, 3D XPoint) - Newegg.com It says it's the version with the m.2 adapter and in stock.
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    4800x for $1000

    Why not just get the 480GB 900p?
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    MikroTik CSS326-24G-2S+RM VLAN Question

    I need to build a small colo 1/4 cab and have a tight space, power and overall budget. It's like gaining 10lbs and everything's tight all around. I read the review on STH and that was helpful Mikrotik CSS326-24G-2S+RM Review Cheap 24x 1GbE 2x 10GbE Here's my quandary. I want to use say 4 ports...
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    Aeon mining thoughts.

    Stak autoconfig is bad.
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    WTB: Cloudspeed Ascend 960GB

    That'd be great to get a 960gb ssd for $200 these days.
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    Monero Pricing and What to do with XMR Thread

    3.5kW * $208 per kW month = $728/month for power and cooling at HE which is near you guys.
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    Proxmox VE 5.1 Updates

    99.99999% chance this f*s up my Ceph cluster while upgrading.
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    Raspberry Pi & Clones "microservers"

    You're still better off just virtualizing. The only cool one I've seen lately is that Marvell MacchiatoBIN. I liked the idea of that until I saw the new Atoms pricing. Here's the issue with the ARM mini boards. You see these clusters where someone says "yo I've made a Ceph cluster with 5 nodes...