The L5530 has a lower power draw. Worth the premium over the L5520 ?. I would guess some would think so.
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I have 2x L5530's. You get a 133MHz higher base clock over the L5520 and turbo up to 2.66GHz but with the same 60w TDP.
Did someone pick up the L5638s? Seller gave me an offer but checked in the morning and they were gone.
Will give it a shot. Got these @ $40 each. Sub $15/ DIMM. Still 1 left if someone wants one.
BTW the single L5520 machines are working fine so if you don't need dual CPU nodes, that is another way to go.
dba - Did you physically install with a drive and verify it reaches the backplane ok?
My 2.5" C6100's arrived today and I set about some testing. I actually was able to make the Supermicro trays i purchased from eBay for testing to fit with a very easy modifcation, only to discover that the drive doesn't reach the backplane. Pics to follow.
Supermicro 2.5" trays
As my 2 C6100 2.5" chassis arrived today, I went about some testing.
Again, here is the SM tray I bought from eBay:
They would not fasten into the chassis, as the 'retainer' was too wide:
10 seconds with the razor knife removed the plastic parts of the 'retainer', making it a perfect fit:
Fastened into the chassis:
However, when inserting the drive it didn't feel like it 'seated'. A quick peek shows the SATA connector does not reach the backplane:
Really hoping that dba verified the drive reaches and works with the HP drive trays.
As my 2 C6100 2.5" chassis arrived today, I went about some testing.
Again, here is the SM tray I bought from eBay:
They would not fasten into the chassis, as the 'retainer' was too wide:
10 seconds with the razor knife removed the plastic parts of the 'retainer', making it a perfect fit:
Fastened into the chassis:
However, when inserting the drive it didn't feel like it 'seated'. A quick peek shows the SATA connector does not reach the backplane:
Really hoping that dba verified the drive reaches and works with the HP drive trays.
Absolutely. I would have felt awful if others had spent money on HP trays only to find that I hadn't done actual testing! I pulled four trays from an HP DL server and booted up all four C6100 nodes using SSD drives in those HP trays.
I also tested the Supermicro trays - with and without modifications - and posted that they cannot be made to work.
I also tested the Supermicro trays - with and without modifications - and posted that they cannot be made to work.
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Can confirm. Two issues I had -
1. I ran out of the correct sized screws with flat heads. D'oh.
2. On an older generation Vertex 1 - the metal EMI gasket was too big. Just installed the drive with the sled no EMI gasket and it worked fine.
Very funny to see the Dell chassis with HP sleds ;-)
Maybe not super great but L5640 extra spicy chips $225. A0 stepping: Intel Xeon Q3NC AT80614005070AA 2 26GHz 12MB 6 Core Processor ES Version L5640 | eBay
Single L5638 non-ES for $170:
Intel Xeon L5638 Hex Core Processor 2 00 12 5 86 Slbwy G465 | eBay
Still thinking of buying this one, but may not. Was planning on having single-CPU nodes.
Intel Xeon L5638 Hex Core Processor 2 00 12 5 86 Slbwy G465 | eBay
Still thinking of buying this one, but may not. Was planning on having single-CPU nodes.
Excellent find, screw Dell sleds, I knew something else must fit, the HP DL series have been quite popular over the years and people have been dumping thousands of these HP sleds for less than US$3 around here.
Might wanna inform other visitors about this in the C6100 thread (esp those who reach this site from the search engines), I would have missed this news if I didn't click into this thread.
As far as cabling the TCK99, will these Mellanox Passive Copper SFP+ 10Gb/s Cables work? Or does anyone have any other sources of cheap cables? Lowest I can find seems to be ~20$ or so via eBay.