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    Dell R710 Worth it?

    Hi all, Found this deal on eBay, was hoping someone can give some advice on it, mainly, is hardware like this still worth it etc. Dell Poweredge R710 2x Intel Xeon X5690 6C 12T 3.47GHz 16GB DDR3 RAM 6x 3.5" SATA/SAS bays Included with 5x300GB 10k SAS drives 2x870W Gold rated PSU Perc6/I RAID...
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    Help Identifying This Caddy

    So I saw an ebay auction for a Supermicro 847 server. One interesting thing about it is they use a really different hdd caddy from what usually equipped by supermicro. Cisco UCS C240 M3 2x 6-Core Xeon E5-2620 2.0GHz 64GB RAM No HDD Please Read | eBay Looking at those pics, we can see the...
  3. mattaw

    Help with Connectx-3 back-to-back using FS QSFP-BD-40G

    Hey all, I used the instructions to cross flash two HP Connextx-3 cards QSFP to Mellanox MCX354A-FCBT's. I then installed two Fiberstore (FS) QSFP-BD-40G modules into one card configured as dual Ethernet. No dice, the link won't come up and the lights on the card stay off. Things I have...
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    Upgrading from a Cisco SG300 L3 10-port

    I've run out of ports on my SG-300 POE switch (swore 10 ports would be more than enough for my needs :confused:) and am looking to upgrade to a better L3 switch with >=24 ports. The tentative plan is to keep the SG-300 and convert to L2 mode to run the 3 APs in my house. So I've looked around...
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    Solution to Supermicro/LSI/Intel RAID hell

    Hi all, last few months have been storage hell with RAID issues on a number of servers I look after. Clearly I am doing something wrong and I'm hoping this is a safe place to ask for some advice. Back story: I have looked after a dozen or so "small business" servers for over fifteen years with...
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    Reviving decomissioned Dell PowerEdge R410

    First off, new user, first post, let me know if this is the wrong place to post this. TL;DR: Can't get any OS to see drives, though BIOS and PERC see them. Can't figure out how to install drivers. So I got my hands on a used R410 for free through my work. I wanted to learn about servers and...
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    SFF NAS Upgrade - ZFS Build Advice

    Thought I would elicit some advice from the group regarding an upgrade I am working on. Current Setup: Synology 1812+ 4x8TB RAID5 + 845 DC Evo 960GB as read cache for Media Storage (The spinning drives will be repurposed for an offsite backup) 2x PM853t 960GB Raid1 for NFS ESXi and Docker...
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    Help me understand IP addressing please

    Disclaimer: I am not an IT professional but I like messing/learning/building and making my wife mad as I spend $$$ on our home network. She thinks that having a huge rack server with tons of stuff is only for bussines environment. Well, not for me. So I will keep spending :) Currently, my...
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    [Question] Network Speed Issues (Dedicated Circuit) - Hardware Problem?

    Hello mighty gods of information, I'm in need. I recently had a dedicated circuit installed (Level3) and then had a networking services company (BlackBox) run a cable drop for the ISPs equipment to my server room. The issue is that we're paying for a dedicated 100 mbps UP and 100 mbps DOWN, but...
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    Help crossflashing HP SmartArray P400 to LSI equivalent

    Hello, I've obtained recently two working HP SmartArray P400 from some decomissioned servers with the 512MB cache. I want to use one of them to build a file server where to store the video camera recordings of several cameras of my shop and then stream it to my phone. I've been using a...
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    Fan issue with Supermicro X10SDV-TLN4F

    Whenever my unit is powered off but still plugged in, the fan spins at full speed, indefinitely, until I press the power button to being booting, at which point the fan dramatically slows down. Aside from being very annoying, everyone I've talked to on homelab on Reddit have said that this...
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    Tower to Rack Conversion recommendations

    Hello, I'm a new member here... but man oh man... this forum increases my expenses.. i keep buying stuff xD So my current server exists of: 2x E5-2650v3 128GB DDR4 ECC Registered Ram (2133Mhz) Windows 2012 R2 Datacenter 64bit (Being a student gives nice discounts) | Hyper-V 6x WD Red 3TB...
  13. YetAnotherMinion

    Dell C6220 2U Server too good?

    Natex is offering Dell C6220 2U Server w/3 Dell 0TTH1R nodes Dell C6220 2U Server w/3 Dell 0TTH1R nodes at $2.2k which seems really low for what the description seems to me to be including. This Dell C6220 server features: -3 x Dell 0TTH1R Nodes -6 x Intel Xeon E5-2650 2.00 Ghz. 20MB 8-Core...