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Hello, I would greatly appreciate your help. I ordered 6 X18 HDDs at the best price available online at the time. On arrival I inspected and realized the manufacturing date is December 2021. Is this normal or should I be suspicious? Can you point me to some software tools I can use to detect if...

I am currently looking for drives for an upcoming proxmox server build. So it is going to be mostly random read / write and not a lot of sequential. One option would be to go with "normal" m2 ssds on a pcie riser. The server is pcie gen3 and now i am thinking about just going with gen4 drives...

Hey guys new member and first time poster so please let me know if this is not the correct section to start this thread. I am currently trying to put together a server for homelab use. I have built computers for years but it is my first time using actual server grade hardware so I am hoping it...

Hi, I have build this system and I have FANs at top speed all the time, I have already updated FRUSDR but it seems that for some reason its not taking Chasis information,as the screenshot shows it seems that its trying to find 1U Fans even when it does recogize all 2U fans connected, this is...

I just got 3 x S2600WTT motherboards with 2x E5-2696 V4 each. I just build one of them and no video output or boot, I then placed my old E5-2650 V3 processors and it does boot and I have video signal, I updated to Bios Latest Version (1.01.3029) that seems to add Processors compatibility also...

This is very odd. The system worked fine before with 8x 64GB 2400 LRDIMM, and 1x Epyc 7532. When I plugged in the second cpu, no matter what I do including power cycles and cmos clears, the board always gets stuck in post code A7. Swapping sockets had no effect. Any ideas?

So I have two Supermicro servers, a 1U and a 4U. I just want to reduce the noise a bit. It's mostly the fan wall that is in them. Ideally I'd like to replace them with a quiet fan like Noctuas. I'm not worried about the power supplies at the moment, it's mainly the fan walls I want to get...

Hey all, Hope everyone is having a great week so far. I have been reading STH for some time but never had anything to contribute as most people here are much more knowledgeable than me, In fact, I have 0 IT background. So, this is my first post on this lovely forum, I hope I don't break too...

Hello STH, I recently bought a 12xLFF backplane detached from the DL380P with a SAS expander chip. When I tried to connect it to the LSI 9207-8i I used before, I found that after entering Windows Server 2016, only one of the 6 hard drives I inserted was recognized. The strange thing is that in...

The seller of an item I want doesn’t do international shipping, so I’m looking for someone in the US that might help me to reship it to Europe. Kind of ASAP. If anyone had positive experience with a reshipping company, please suggest one — the majority do seem shady to me, from vague monthly...

Setup: Dell R620 with 10Gb RJ45 running proxmox (Kratos) Custom Server with 10Gb SFP+ LC Fiber Connection (Notch) Synology RS1221 with Synology 10Gb RJ45 NIC (Vault) Iperf3 Tests Summary Kratos -> Notch or Vault | 10Gb Notch -> Vault | 10Gb Vault -> Notch | 10Gb Notch or Vault -> Kratos | 4Gb...

Hello, I want to try my hand at developing a repair ticket management and inventory system. This would be for a demo project for one of my courses. I have used products like RepairQ and RepairDesk, and this project will have similar functionality to those platforms. I have noticed that...

So I am a college student and for a project, I am very interested in whether or not there is ANY way for me to apply port security settings to the ports of an unmanaged switch. I realized that unmanaged switches do not have any sort of interface in which to naturally do this, unlike managed...

Quick question, how do you add a profile picture on the STH forums. I seem to only be able to set the cover background. Cheers, Bryan

Hey there STH community, I watched the 288 Fiber Housing video and really enjoyed it. I noticed there was some technology I wasn't familiar with. I have the CompTIA trifecta along with a CCNA, but those certifications covered things like MTP/MPO fiber technology. What certification might...

So in need of help with this SuperMicro server X10DRU-i+ | Motherboards | Products | Super Micro Computer, Inc. I’ve been googling about booting from an NVME and found this article - FAQ Entry | Online Support | Support - Super Micro Computer, Inc. It seems I have to set the PCI-E slots to EFI...

I haven’t used a powervault before. I got this one for very cheap and I am not sure if that was because it is bad. On boot the controllers light up the battery indicator, and it runs like that for 5 mins and then the battery light turns off and the fans ramp up to full power. Also the MDSM...

ASUS Laptop my computer is in boot utility ez mode and it looks like tis, but im not a computer expert so i was wondering if there were smth wrong with this bios setting? and it happend while my fren was browsing through youtube and the blue screen of death appeared and needed restart and...

I just recently purchased the MikroTik CRS354-48G-4S+2Q+RM switch to expand my server's networking capabilities. However I have seem to run into compatibility issues. The switch wiki says it only supports transceivers/cables made by MikroTik, I already bought cables from FS.com and I can't find...

Good day all, First time here, but no stranger to fora. (got referred from tweakers.net, and been watching a couple video's on youtube from STH). So . . . i'm having an issue. (strange huh?) I bought an Asrock Rack EPYC D8-2T, as its specs look great, i don't really need Gen 4.0 PCI-E so...