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I don't need more crap

I don't need more crap

I don't need more crap

I have a 8100T to put in this thing

I don't need more crap

Single M.2 is oof though :( I would have liked dual NVMe so I can have more storage in the seedbox.
 
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Wasmachineman_NL said:
I don't need more crap

I don't need more crap

I don't need more crap

I have a 8100T to put in this thing

I don't need more crap

Single M.2 is oof though :( I would have liked dual NVMe so I can have more storage in the seedbox.
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I don't need more crap either. And I also have a CPU in the drawer that would work. Hmmm. I could set it up for pfsense, then pull the pfsense box (SMC C3558 board with lots more ports) to use for something else?

But...I don't need more crap. OTOH....
 
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I agree with everyone here who said "I don't need more crap".

Then I ordered 3 of them.

Allow me to explain my rationale as if anyone of you cares. I have 3x 65inch displays in the house. Each has a Lenovo i5 tiny system stashed behind it. The tiny i5 boxes have done their job just fine for years, but they have their limits (16gb ram, single gb ethernet, 128GB storage, etc). 1 is starting to fail and all 3 need more memory and storage. Rather than upgrade the boxes, I'll give these shuttle's a try.
 
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anewsome said:
I agree with everyone here who said "I don't need more crap".

Then I ordered 3 of them.

Allow me to explain my rationale as if anyone of you cares. I have 3x 65inch displays in the house. Each has a Lenovo i5 tiny system stashed behind it. The tiny i5 boxes have done their job just fine for years, but they have their limits (16gb ram, single gb ethernet, 128GB storage, etc). 1 is starting to fail and all 3 need more memory and storage. Rather than upgrade the boxes, I'll give these shuttle's a try.
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I think many of us here like to say, "I don't need more crap," then order anyway. At least your justification is better than most, bordering on actually...justified! Cheers!
 
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Sold out. The temptation was real. I was chanting "I don't need it. I don't need it". for quite a while.
 
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As other posters have pointed out, these are in very nice condition. Dare I say, near new. I got the 3 units I ordered (and probably didn't need). I can report more once I get some RAM and some CPUs for them. I found the list of compatible CPU here:

DH370 Compatibility

If anyone has any words of wisdom on any of these CPUs, please chime in. I've bought probably hundreds of servers, laptops, desktops, raspberry pis, etc over the last 40 years but I've never purchased a CPU standalone.
 
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I bought a I5-8400T for the first one and decided to go with a i7-8700 for the second one. Gonna see how well these cool. Both mine came with 90w PSU's. I read somewhere that people were complaining about performance of high end CPU's when using the 65w PSU. I won't have that problem.
 
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Checking back in on this thread to post an update on the 3 node cluster build with these Shuttle DH370.

I only have 1 node powered up at the moment. I wanted to check heat, power, performance on my ram and CPU choice before I went all in and bought the parts for the other 2 units. Currently I have installed in the 1 node:

1x Western Digital 1TB SN750 NVMe (boot)
1x Silicon Power A55 4TB SSD (data)
64GB Crucial SO-DIMM Kit (memtest'd on arrival)
Intel i7 9700T CPU - 8core, no hyperthreading

I tried Proxmox on the build but I got some weird lockups during backup and other random lockups. I memtested again with no errors and also logged the temps every second to make sure the box/nvme wasn't overheating. Also removed the lid, which dropped the temps dramatically but Proxmox was still locking up randomly. I installed ESXi on it and I've been hammering it with I/O and network and I've not experienced any lockups yet.

I also started designing the 3d printed bits that will help orgranize the nodes into a nice little bundle. Since these seem to run so much cooler with the lid off, I've incorporated that into the design. The current plan is to have the power bricks down below, with the Shuttle's stacked on each other (lids off) and at the top a network switch and handle.

We'll see how it goes. Need to get the other NVMe, SSD, RAM and CPU for the 2 other boxes.

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anewsome said:
Checking back in on this thread to post an update on the 3 node cluster build with these Shuttle DH370.

I only have 1 node powered up at the moment. I wanted to check heat, power, performance on my ram and CPU choice before I went all in and bought the parts for the other 2 units. Currently I have installed in the 1 node:


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Nice setup. Yeah, these and other things like laptops are nice, capable "home servers" on the cheap, and sip electricity. Even on a rack shelf, they're all most people need for a homelab. Biggest limitation is Gigabit networking, limiting access speed to a network disk array, but at least it has two interfaces.

I've been doing similar, but with t480/490 laptops, throttlestop, and only 4-cores. USB-PD power sources are simple to source. A 20V USB-PD adapter, or inline converter cable, should also work fine for these Shuttles, if one wants fewer power sources.
 
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anewsome said:
I agree with everyone here who said "I don't need more crap".

Then I ordered 3 of them.

Allow me to explain my rationale as if anyone of you cares. I have 3x 65inch displays in the house. Each has a Lenovo i5 tiny system stashed behind it. The tiny i5 boxes have done their job just fine for years, but they have their limits (16gb ram, single gb ethernet, 128GB storage, etc). 1 is starting to fail and all 3 need more memory and storage. Rather than upgrade the boxes, I'll give these shuttle's a try.
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What are you running on the tiny's?
 
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What are you running on the tiny's?
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2 things primarily

* Plex HTPC Client (works much better than the Vizio app)
* A custom web app I made for displaying what's playing whatever's streaming from my MPD server (90% of the day podcasts, 10% music)

More recently I've been displaying a MagicMirror dashboard I whipped up too. There's also a websocket server I created, runs on each of the Tiny's, which accepts commands from a web/phone app I made. In addition to allowing control of the TVs via websockets, it also switches between the plex client, magicmirror and the custom mpd client display screens.

Within the MPD display client, there are 3 distinct screens. 1 is a Vue app running Milkdrop visuals. The other are 2 screens I coded up.

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This one is a full screen Vue app that displays realtime "spectrum analyzer". Yes I know it's not a real spectrum analyzer, but most non-audio technophiles would indeed call this display a spectrum analyzer. It's runs full screen on the 65 inch TVs and is actually really cool looking, whether the MPD server is streaming podcasts or music. The websocket server, also running on each Tiny, allows me to turn on/off different parts of the display like progress bar, the frequency bars, clock, artist, title and so on.

I also have a version of this one, which is used for my vinyl turntable. It doesn't have artist, title and progress bar since it strictly listens to analog line-in on the audio card.

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The other is not a Vue app, but just a simple web app I coded up. It also runs full screen and displays/plays audio of the MPD livestream. If you couldn't tell what I was going for, it's kind of a reel-to-reel tape simulator with cover art in the middle, working VU meters, spectrum analyzer and info display on the bottom. It also looks really cool fullscreen on the 65 inch displays. The 3D rendered parts I made in Blender and the frequency bar display logic is borrowed from the other view above. The info display on the lower right is an generated SVG image rendered 30fps. This one was quite a challenge to work out how to make the tape display on the reels show the actual time elapsed/remaining correctly.

You can see it in action here, obviously not the live streaming app itself, but the reel-to-reel visualization rendered:

Reel To Reel Audio Visualizer

I think it looks pretty cool, others would call it a waste of CPU resources, power and time.
 
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anewsome said:
I think it looks pretty cool, others would call it a waste of CPU resources, power and time.
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If being pretty was a real waste, apple would never have gotten marketshare--I think most people underestimate what looks can do. ;)
 
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