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News: Purch (people behind Tom's Hardware) just bought Anandtech
Not sure if anyone saw this: Purch Acquires AnandTech, Dominates Tech Expert and Enthusiast Market | Purch Just got an e-mail that Purch, the people who bought Tom's Hardware ended up just buying...
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Home Server Vacillation : L5520 vs e3-1231v3
After thinking about this for a few months, I'm still a bit torn about which of the above platforms I should base my new build on (replacing a Proliant I've outgrown speed and sizewise). I've seen some...
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Renderfarmer's DIY Render Farm
This is my basement render farm. I run Thinkbox Deadline as my render manager and I primarily render with Vray for Maya Standalone. It has one file server/render manager/license server that also...
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Ultra hot: S3500 480gb and S3700 200gb for $335
Looks like there are 3 offers. I think the BIN price is ultra reasonable: Intel SSD 480GB S3500 and Intel SSD 200GB S3700 Bundle Package 14 Day Warrant | eBay
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Hyper-V host, Linux VM, how to get KVM to use acceleration?
So I might have a tough one here, google has not been helpful. I have a Hyper-V host that I am happy with. I have ubuntu running on it in a VM to play around with things. I'd like to try out the new...
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Supermicro 3u 16bay 3.5" chassis with SAS2 expander
Mr Rackables has a chassis lised that is an even better deal than the SC846 SAS2 expander chassis some of us bought a couple of months ago: 3U Supermicro 16 Bays Storage Server Chassis SC836E26 R1200...
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Dell 3-Node AMD DCS6005
Stumbled across these today: Dell C6005 Cloud Server 6X 1 8GHz AMD 6 Core 48GB RAM 12x 750GB C6100 Series | eBay Anyone familiar with it? Looks like they can be had relatively affordably.
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Dell PowerEdge C6220
Dell PowerEdge C6220 2U 4X BAREBONES CTO Nodes 8XHESIN No CPU No RAM 2RPS Server | eBay not sure if this is better deal than the LGA1356 deal but here it is!
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FS: Retail Intel Xeon E5-2603, Supermicro SAS HBA (2x 8087 ports)
New user here =D I absolutely love this site and the Great Deals section. I was able to snag 12 of those WD 4TB RE SAS drives with 11 of them having warranties until mid-2018, a couple of 160GB Intel...
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grow your present weight
There would be to start a superb place to grow your present weight by 18. This variety will give a hard concept of exactly how many calories your body needs in one day to bulk up to you. If you play...
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SSD-grade USB thumb drive?
I'm looking for a compact USB drive with a consistent, documented SSD-grade controller and NAND. Obviously it's easy enough to hang a USB adapter from an SSD, but something a little closer to a thumb...
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Hitachi SLC SAS SSDs will not initialize - Any ideas on how to fix?
So far two of us have tried getting these drives to work. HP and LSI controllers and no luck. These drives sit on the controller and look like this in the LSI MegaRAID storage manager: View attachment...
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Quanta LB4M 48-Port Gigabit Switch Discussion
I started this separate thread (per request) for future reference and discussion of the Quanta LB4M 48p gbE + 2x 10gbE sfp+ switch and this old ebay thread is the source. I picked up three Quanta LB4M...
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Dell C6100 XS23-TY3 2U 4-Node (8 CPU) Cloud Server
Decided to start a mini-thread as I play with this thing. Getting a Dell C6100 XS23-TY3 inexpensively I purchased the disk less unit for $1000 + 65 Shipping. Here is a link to the "deal" thread. Here...
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Dell LITEON PS-2112-2L 1100W Power Supply C6100 3MMJ3
I spotted a bucket load of these 1100 watt PSUs for C6100 for $35 Dell Liteon PS 2112 2L 1100W Power Supply C6100 3MMJ3 | eBay I'm thinking of picking up a couple for my pair of C6100 for redundancy...
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Supermicro X8DTi Dual Socket LGA1366 5500/5600 DDR3 Mobo + IO
Found this deal on Ebay $126 (order now and get a free upgrade to the X8DTi-F): Supermicro X8DTI Dual Socket LGA1366 5500 5600 DDR3 Mobo IO Free... Supermicro X8DTi Dual Socket LGA1366 5500/5600 DDR3...
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Which one of these is best for a RAID5 array?
4x WD RE4 1TB - RAID5 - 3Ware / LSI 9650SE-8LPML | 256MB DDR2 | w/o BBU - Adaptec 6805E | 128MB (DDR2?) | w/o BBU - Adaptec 5405 | 256MB DDR2 | w/ BBU - LSI 9240-8i | w/o cache | w/o BBU The server...
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Have an impact on STH - Shape review outputs
As many may have seen, I have been running (lots) of benchmarks on different higher-end SSDs. Looking at IOMeter results the output has many dimensions. For example: Database, Web, File Server and...
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[newegg] Intel 730 Series SSDSC2BP480G4R5 2.5" 480GB SATA $199
Intel 730 Series SSDSC2BP480G4R5 2.5" 480GB SATA 6Gb/s MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) - Newegg.com Here is a review if interested
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Intel S3700 400GB - $349
Cheap dell part Intel 400GB 2 5" Solid State SATA SSD DC S3700 SSDSC2BA400G3E Dell 524F4 | eBay
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