Or I wonder if this could be an alternative solution: https://forums.servethehome.com/ind...yminimicro-reference-thread.34925/post-336417 ?to remove bios whitelist - boot bios update tool (you will need to reflash bios. settings could be preserved) -> choose to update Machine Type or Serial Number (you can update for both of them, i prefer keeping Serial Number) as 'INVALID'.
from now on there won't be a bios whitelist but it will beep on boot saying that Machine Type and Serial Number is invalid and continue booting. i think that is also a good thing that you know machine successfully posted and ready to proceed with OS boot
Lenovo Thinkcentre/ThinkStation Tiny (Project TinyMiniMicro) Reference Thread
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i think that replacing model name and serial number with ‘INVALID’ during bios flash imho still easier/safer way to get rid of bios whitelist. No need to touch hardware is a huge pro for some people.
How many HDs can a Tiny do? Here's my m920x w 7 HDs (3 onboard), plus HBA via PCI riser.
2 x m.2 NVMEs
1 x SATA SSD
4 x SATA SSDs (via HBA)
Has anyone seen an adapter or face plate to mount a 5.25" optical drive into 1U? It's a standard size (albeit not exactly 5.25"), so there are lots of applications. I want to mount a dock for 4 x 2.5" SSDs in a single U along with a Blu-Ray. Can't seem to find anything that will do the trick. Of course I can just set it on a shelf, but I'd like to find a panel for the front.
2 x m.2 NVMEs
1 x SATA SSD
4 x SATA SSDs (via HBA)
Has anyone seen an adapter or face plate to mount a 5.25" optical drive into 1U? It's a standard size (albeit not exactly 5.25"), so there are lots of applications. I want to mount a dock for 4 x 2.5" SSDs in a single U along with a Blu-Ray. Can't seem to find anything that will do the trick. Of course I can just set it on a shelf, but I'd like to find a panel for the front.
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Yup, something like one of those is what I want to use. But the challenge is finding a 1U adapter or panel to mount into my rack. That's where I'm looking for ideas; exhausted my Google-foo. Thinking I might have to hack something together.
I can't find the reddit thread but I saw someone fit an Optiplex sff into a 1u Supermicro chassis. Perhaps something you can consider?
I’m the middle of deciding which TinyMiniMicro solution to buy.
One of the thing that I’m looking to is to use my current 10Gb Ethernet card (Intel X540-T2 Dual-Port 2x 10GBase-T PCIe x8 2.1 P/N: X540T2).
Do you know which solution would be a better fit? if is not possible, what kind of 10G Ethernet card are you using in your build?
thank you
Nico
One of the thing that I’m looking to is to use my current 10Gb Ethernet card (Intel X540-T2 Dual-Port 2x 10GBase-T PCIe x8 2.1 P/N: X540T2).
Do you know which solution would be a better fit? if is not possible, what kind of 10G Ethernet card are you using in your build?
thank you
Nico
The first post in this thread has a table that specifies which Lenovo has a pcie slot and any of those with your x540 will be fine. I use m720q and m920q with mellanox connectx-3.
You'll need to find a riser from ebay or taobao which the first post also lists their part numbers.
There are photos about 3-5 pages in to the thread of someone adding a x520-t1 I think to a Tiny, if I recall it's a pretty tight fit so you need to get the assembly order right.
You say "full" PCIe card - just to point out the obvious, it'll need to be half height and no more than 15cm (let's say, 14.9cm) long to fit. You may be able to squeeze another cm or so of length if you butcher the front panel assembly, remove the WiFi antenna, etc.
There's also this thread here.
DIY info: just installed RX6400 into my m720q with your help guys. Fits perfectly XFX Speedster swft105 and Sapphire Pulse RX6400.
Edit: Last year, when RX6400 was announced, first thing came in my mind if this would fit. Secondly, needed to wait untill someone has, to measure the exact size, then be lucky enough to have to find in stock somewhere. This happened beginning of august last year.
Edit: Last year, when RX6400 was announced, first thing came in my mind if this would fit. Secondly, needed to wait untill someone has, to measure the exact size, then be lucky enough to have to find in stock somewhere. This happened beginning of august last year.
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Just realized how much shorter that NIC is vs the CX-3 that I have, making it possible to have a short SSD in the front to begin with.
P350 with ConnectX-3 CX312B and riser with zipties. Thinking of changing it out for the Supermicro AOC-STGN-I2S since that'd free up a bunch of space for a small SATA drive.
Some possible alternatives I've been looking into for small drives that can connect to a SATA interface besides sata dom:
mSATA to SATA - https://www.amazon.com/Acxico-6-0GPS-Adapter-Converter-Module/dp/B09D36D34S/
finding something of a similar orientation for a single 2230/2242 drive would be ideal as well.
and of course the last bit would be shucking the board of a secretly half height SATA SSD
mSATA to SATA - https://www.amazon.com/Acxico-6-0GPS-Adapter-Converter-Module/dp/B09D36D34S/
finding something of a similar orientation for a single 2230/2242 drive would be ideal as well.
and of course the last bit would be shucking the board of a secretly half height SATA SSD
If you are after storage, at one point I had a 2tb nvme ssd, a 2tb chucked ssd, a 2tb extreme usb drive on a single m920q. With a 2tb boot nvme. 8tb in total from a.1l tiny lol
I have 2x 2TB NVME drives in there right now, but think it's probably better to run them in a ZFS mirror (or at least play around with it like that), and move proxmox off to the sata drive.