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    Intel Xeon E5-2670 Deal and Price Tracking

    Roughly the same here Toronto - Niagara Falls NY but It feels too inefficient to drive 2 hours, pay $5-7 for a package, $4 for bridge tolls for $50 in product so I end up leaving stuff around for ages until it accumulates or I'm heading down there anyway. By then the customs guy never lets me...
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    Intel Xeon E5-2670 Deal and Price Tracking

    Picked up a pair for $50 each for my home server. Replaced the 2630L's that were in there previously. Oddly enough, temps went down, fans spun down so system is quieter and idle power consumption dropped too (assume due to lower fan speed). Couldn't be happier with the upgrade.
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    Ideal NAS EE-ATX motherboard - X9DR7-TF+ - $230

    I don't see it listed as officially compatible, but is there any reason why this wouldn't be compatible with the cse846 1200 case (my particular one was the one from liquid8 shared as a deal here last year? I know there's like 50 revisions of it but shouldn't they all work?
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    Prime day!!!!

    Technically they didn't write better. They wrote "more deals than Black Friday". :)
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    E5-2630L

    6 more at $180 obo. http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=111708032475&globalID=EBAY-US
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    E5-2630L

    Except in this case the sentiment is: if only I started looking a year ago I could've bought it for a quarter the price. It's like hard drive and ram prices all over again.
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    E5-2630L

    If the 2609 sold out in 30 mins at $90, how fast did the 2630l's for $50 sell out? Seems almost unreal. I no longer feel like I got a good deal. :(
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    E5-2630L

    http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=281729607101&globalID=EBAY-US Mobile interface submitted the post a little early and I can't change the title anymore. I bought a pair of these 2630L's from a seller in Toronto (laptoprecycle.ca) a week or so ago (in person). Oddly the ID...
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    WTB: 30x (qty) Intel Core i7-3770

    That'd be a lot of daisy chained power bars. All that can run from one socket right? :)
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    Supermicro X9DRL - Poor SSD Write Performance

    So I've played around with it more and enabled a setting I thought I'd never want to on a non-capacitor backed server (it's UPS backed though). The no cache flush option on the drive seems to give me the expected performance. But should this option really give such a multi-fold improvement or...
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    Supermicro X9DRL - Poor SSD Write Performance

    Running an X9DRL with Server 2012 R2. Read speeds are bangin at around 550MB/s on both of my plugged in SSDs (120gb Kingston V300 and 480GB Sandisk Extreme II), but my write speeds look to top out at 80-90MB/s sequential and 400KB/s 4k non queued (100 IOPS). Latest Intel C600 Drivers (RSTe)...
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    Zotac ZBOX-PI320-W2

    Not to thread jack but figured I'd pipe in my experience with these little boxes. I've got a pipo. Pretty little box. Installed plex app from Windows store and it chugs along nicely. Haven't done all the work necessary in order to make it a full media centre (I use Fire Tv's for that) but I...
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    E5 2689 - as low as $590

    With 2620's fetching around $300 this proc looks to be almost double the performance (cpubenchmark of 13k vs 8k) for double the price. 2680's and 90's are still in the $1k range. Oddly I don't see this proc on Intel ark? Looks to be some sort of oem chip like the L5639's were? e5 2689 | eBay
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    NEW 400GB ENTERPRISE SSD SATA MICRON P400m DELL HP 2.5 512GB DC INTEL S3700 DC

    The description makes things clear I think. 1x BuyItNow = 1x 400GB SSD
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    Amazon Prime - New Lenovo RD640 - Xeon E5-2620 V2, 8GB Ram, $450 with Free Shipping

    Glad some people got in on this. I was on the fence and figured if I posted here you all would make sure I didn't have the temptation for long.
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    Amazon Prime - New Lenovo RD640 - Xeon E5-2620 V2, 8GB Ram, $450 with Free Shipping

    Amazon.com: ThinkServer RD640 70AY0006UX 2U Rack Server - 1 x Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2 2.1GHz: Computers & Accessories Was looking for just a CPU, and given the price of just an 2620 V2 is around $350 at best, this seems like a decent price considering all your extras. Free Prime Shipping to...
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    10x 3TB in Raid 6. 33% of the performance of a single drive?

    That seems to have put me into the 500MB/s range. Thanks! (Yes, BBU is installed) Followup: My understanding of write-back cache was that it'd use the onboard memory on the controller to cache the writes. Since it only has 256MB onboard I assumed this would be more or less useless on any...
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    10x 3TB in Raid 6. 33% of the performance of a single drive?

    Setup: System: Xeon E5-2609 in a CSE846 chassis with EL1 expander backplane. Raid Card: IBM M5014 with BBU flashed to LSI 9260 with Advanced Feature Key. OS: Server 2012 R2 Essentials virtualized in Server 2012 Standard. Virtual Disk directly passed through. Drives: 10x Seagate Constellation...
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    Mikrotik CRS226 $244!!!!!!!!

    But cooling your equipment must be dead simple. :)
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    IBM ServeRAID M5000 Advanced Feature Key

    I bought mine for $12 offer plus shipping from here: http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=171440290981 Came in just under 2 weeks.