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    What is the condition of used HGST HUH721010ALE601 10 TB Helium drives sold on eBay?

    Hello I am looking to buy three of these for my NAS (RAID1, either two-way and one spare or three-way). I know drives sold by Insidesystems in Denmark have been run for 3.5 to 4 years and 1400 TB written during that time. But there's also iuppiter B.V. who sells these in the Netherlands. These...
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    The sanity of buying a used RTX A2000 right now

    Hello Looking for a graphics card that could double as a small-time compute card for my SFF Thinkstation. I like RTX A2000 because it's about the maximum I can afford and because it blows its hot air out of the case. What I am worried about is if many of those cards currently for sale in eBay...
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    Should I buy HP EliteDesk 800 G4 mini or Dell Optiplex 7060 micro?

    My educational institution is offloading a bunch of old computers for below market prices. Only one for each buyer. These both have i5-8500T, 8 GB and 512 GB (probably 2.5" SATA SSD, because M.2 is mentioned separately for other units). Given that they have no Thinkstations or Thinkcentres on...
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    Tiny or small form factor Xeon workstations (or Ryzen with official ECC)?

    Hello Got interested in mini tower Xeon workstations (Thinkstation P320 and such), but wondering if these are available in a yet smaller form factor. I haven't heard of a desktop mini with a Xeon, but whoever has done this research before, please tell me what you found.
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    A cheap but good small managed gigabit switch for homelab

    Hello I used search, but could not find an exactly matching thread. So here is a new one. I am looking for a * fanless, * managed * 8 to 12 port switch with * VLAN support (32 will do fine), * link aggregation and * STP support. I do not need PoE or QoS. I think I'll rather buy two...
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    Affordable little Xeon workstation

    Hello I currently have an Asus P8C-WS with an Ivy Bridge E3-1245 v2 Xeon. It is currently serving as a hackintosh. No sleep, no hibernate, must be forced to power off. But otherwise quite nice. It has 24 GB ECC RAM, but OS X has no MCE support for the chipset. Has seen very little use since...