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I was reading the article about Lenovo's just announced Rome servers. I was thinking, "Three one wide x16 slots for video, why, oh why, couldn't have they made it with one 3 wide slot?"
I could bolt the 1U chassis to the bottom side on my desk and bask in 1TB of goodness. 
Red Squirrel
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Oh man that would make a nice VM server processor. Need to build at least two of course. May as well use a dual cpu motherboard if they make them.
sdifox
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Oh man that would make a nice VM server processor. Need to build at least two of course. May as well use a dual cpu motherboard if they make them.
Of course there are two processor boards.
sdifox
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I was reading the article about Lenovo's just announced Rome servers. I was thinking, "Three one wide x16 slots for video, why, oh why, couldn't have they made it with one 3 wide slot?"
And be deaf in a day. Supermicro has a 2U 2P Epyc Rome server listed on their site.
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Red Squirrel
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Listed on their site and available at a Canadian online retailer is two different things though. Selection on most sites tend to be quite poor. I miss NCIX they were half decent for selection.
sdifox
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Red Squirrel
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Didn't these chips literally just come out? I don't think there will be any off lease stuff for a long time. Then again some companies seem to replace stuff super often so you never know it could be only a few years.
Been toying with getting a bunch of small form factor off lease PCs actually. Some of them are modern enough that they have VT-D and support like 12GB of ram so it makes a nice test bed for VM solutions. They sometimes go for cheap on Dell outlet and such. I want to eventually migrate off ESXi and go with Proxmox or something else more open source oriented and setup proper HA and shared storage so it would make a nice test bed. Bonus is not needing a Windows VM just to manage my VMs lol.
Been toying with getting a bunch of small form factor off lease PCs actually. Some of them are modern enough that they have VT-D and support like 12GB of ram so it makes a nice test bed for VM solutions. They sometimes go for cheap on Dell outlet and such. I want to eventually migrate off ESXi and go with Proxmox or something else more open source oriented and setup proper HA and shared storage so it would make a nice test bed. Bonus is not needing a Windows VM just to manage my VMs lol.
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Red Squirrel
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Yeah if you're lucky enough to come across them at a decent price. Shipping is often the killer. I don't even bother looking at Ebay anymore. But there's always Dell outlet etc.
Is there something I'm missing with this platform, seems the ram capacity is rather low?
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=10333242&CatId=330
8 slots, and it only supports 16GB? That can't be right?
Is there something I'm missing with this platform, seems the ram capacity is rather low?
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=10333242&CatId=330
8 slots, and it only supports 16GB? That can't be right?
Red Squirrel
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This would make a nice SSD based NAS. http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=10333041&CatId=330
I have to stop looking at hardware.
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=10333041&CatId=330I have to stop looking at hardware.
sdifox
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sdifox
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Red Squirrel
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Red Squirrel
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For PC stuff I've been using memoryexpress.com but they don't have much in server stuff. Next build I'll probably do whitebox anyway, cheaper and I can just build two.
sdifox
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https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/333140900620
First gen epyc, but supposedly epyc rome will work on first gen boards.
First gen epyc, but supposedly epyc rome will work on first gen boards.
Red Squirrel
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Not much there either. There's Newegg too but that's US so I tend to try to use that as last resort in case of customs. Though TBH that's usually where I end up... wish we had better computer part retailers here. It's crazy how we're treated like some 3rd world country. not like we're a tiny island in middle of nowhere.
Red Squirrel
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Some stuff on CC though... dual motherboard.
https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=38_505&item_id=124494
I need to stop looking at this stuff before I spend money lol.
https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=38_505&item_id=124494
I need to stop looking at this stuff before I spend money lol.
sdifox
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Red Squirrel
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I don't really have that luxery. I usually have to make due with what I can find on Tigerdirect etc. Ebay is too expensive to ship here. Smaller things like network switches Ebay works ok though. I bought at least 4 Dell 24 port switches lol. I got one ready for the garage once I'm at that point. A little overkill but those switches are a dime a dozzen and I do need to be able to do vlans.
Red Squirrel
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I finally retired my Core2Quad whitebox server a while back. OS install date was around 2008.
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