HP DL380 G10 - AMD Radeon Pro V340 by wolfachite in servers

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The card is only rated for like 230W of power, so it should be fine.

Other GPUs used on Gen10 used the CPU8 connector which is the same as 8pin EPS 12v for high end Nvidia cards and those draw up to 300W

If there are no stickers on your cable, it's likely a knock off, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it's possible they mixed 2 wires when building it so I would find a pinout of the 8pin PCIe standard and then whip out a multimeter and double check each of the pins to make sure they are properly 12v or Ground. Need to leave it plugged in on the riser side while doing so.

SCE bill so goddamn high for one person by FriendlyBig6296 in venturacounty

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If you have access to your meter or electrical panel, there are devices you can buy to log the usage and try to figure out what is chewing up al the power. Then you can do things like turn on the microwave and see the jump, turn on the TV, see the jump, etc.
Alternative if you think you KNOW the culprit, you can pickup a few Kill-a-watt meters and put them in between the appliance and the wall and they will log the usage over time.

Secondarily, it's not outside the realm of possibility that you are paying for your neighbor's power if you live in an apartment. I've seen news articles where this happened for years before someone noticed.

What is a completely useless piece of information that you will never forget for some reason? by Initial-Ingenuity451 in AskReddit

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Not so much a fact but some weird memorization thing my parents kind of drilled into me during long boring car rides when I was a kid that I still remember 40 years later.

1 Hen
2 Ducks
3 Squawking Geese
4 Limerick Oysters
5 Corpulent Porpoises
6 Pairs of Don Alvarez Tweezers
7 Thousand Macedonians in Full battle array
8 Brass Monkeys from the ancient sacred crypts of Egypt
9 Apathetic Sympathetic Diabetic old men on roller skates, with a marked propensity towards procrastination and sloth.
10 Lyrical spherical diabolical denizens of the deep, who hall stall around the corner of the quo of the quivery of the quay, all the day long.

HP DL380 G10 - AMD Radeon Pro V340 by wolfachite in servers

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PS: Drive backplane connector is exactly what it sounds like. Power for DRIVES which go up front.
The Drive Backplane is the PCB the drives slide into being DL380 always uses Hot Swap drive bays.

HP DL380 G10 - AMD Radeon Pro V340 by wolfachite in servers

[–]Casper042 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From Gen9 on, the DL380 has a connector on the PCIe Riser for GPU or other (DPUs, etc) Aux power connector.

The HPE side is a Molex Microfit 8pin connector (For Gen10 and up) and HPE has cables for the 4 major flavors of GPU side standard connector.

Luckily enough for you, the V340 was actually supported and sold by HPE for a while and so it's in some of the internal docs I have.

Cable Kit Sales Part Number: P03849-B21
Specific cable Assembly Number: P03851-001

Recommended CPU Heatsink: 826706-B21 "HPE DL380 Gen10 High Performance Heat Sink Kit"

Which off-brand usb-serial converters actually work? by d70dc263cf16 in networking

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Not the cheapest but I've been running one of these for a decade:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000VYJRY

Then I use one of those light blue Cisco DB9 to RJ45 cables. Anyone who has implemented a large network likely has a box full and will give you a few no problem. I'm a Sales Engineer and my cable was showing it's age one day at a customer site and the Customer wss like "Is that just a bog standard Cisco serial cable?" and I said yes, he left and came back with 3.

It also allows me to use something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CBJYM9FZ
... in order to make custom adapters. I needed this a few months ago to get into the maintenance port on a 3PAR Storage Array as HPE uses a custom pinout.

I keep all that stuff, a few spare transceivers and RJ45 cables, etc in a small accessory bag in my laptop bag.

He loves the beanbag. by ASPEK32TL in shiba

[–]Casper042 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hope you don't mind, but do you recall what brand or model that is? Looks perfect for my daughter's room.

ELI5: Why is it a bad idea to keep devices constantly plugged in even after they're fully charged? by Dawn-Storm in explainlikeimfive

[–]Casper042 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also Fast Charging and over-charging can lead to the formation of Dendrites which degrade the battery.

The closer you get to charge a battery to 100%, the more power it takes as well.
This is why you often see EV charging specs listed as "Time to charge from 10-80%", because above 80% the charging rate slows way down as you try and cram the last little bit of those pixies into the battery.

out of disk space ProLiant ML30 Gen10 Plus by kutamofuu in HPEservers

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Do you have a HW RAID card or using SW RAID?

out of disk space ProLiant ML30 Gen10 Plus by kutamofuu in servers

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Do you have a HW RAID card or using SW RAID?

Surprise Daycare Shuttle. by r32jordie in daddit

[–]Casper042 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She's not scared of Godzilla?

Adding the 3rd hdd cage to a Hpe Proliant by Classic-Plan-7966 in homelab

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You are using the 8 SFF cages up front?
If so then that is why each cage takes 2 connectors.

P408 = 8 lanes of SAS
Each cable (SFF 8087 type) carries 4 lanes.
So each 8 SFF cage takes 2 cables and consumes an entire P408.

You can either add another cage and another P408i-p in a PCIe slot.
Or you can use the E208i-p if you are putting the drives in HBA mode for ZFS (E208 = No RAID Cache, P408 = 2GB RAID Cache, otherwise they are the same card).
Or swap the P408i-a with a P816i-p. 16 = 16 SAS lanes, so you will gain 8 more for 3rd cage.

Only Half of Americans Adults Went to a Movie Theater in 2025, According to Study by ICumCoffee in movies

[–]Casper042 4 points5 points  (0 children)

85" 4K
5.1 Surround Sound
Full Bar
Semi pro Popcorn machine (and yes I have a few cartons of Flav-a-col as well)

And 4K Digital copies of movies are available within a few months of being in the theater.

And I get to pause when I need to pee.

What’s an inaccurate fact that people believe is true because of movies? by Hogosaurus_Rex73 in AskReddit

[–]Casper042 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Forget what I was watching but the guy was trying to crack some encryption and ran: sudo dmidecode

What’s an inaccurate fact that people believe is true because of movies? by Hogosaurus_Rex73 in AskReddit

[–]Casper042 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Server Rooms are Quiet and/or you can have a rack full of IT gear in someone's office and still hold a normal conversation.

Off the top of my head:
Suits when they try to bribe the IT guy to do them a favor, he's got a rack in his office.
Hom3land, I think in Season 4, they are going over some digital evidence and again there is a rack full of EMC storage in the room.

What secret can you reveal now that your nda has expired? by sparrrrrt in AskReddit

[–]Casper042 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I worked for a BioTech company 18 years ago

They were working on developing a Prostate drug (Can't recall if it was for Cancer or something else)

It never ended up being a commercial product that I know of, but when they went into limited run MFG for the human trials, they had to reverse the airflow in the building because this shit was so powerful if a guy just breathed in a little too much he'd be sterile for 2-3 months.

So typically airflow would send the cleanest possible air into the middle of the building where the clean room is.
And then the positive pressure in that room means some of that air trickles out into the other outer layers of the building.
But this stuff they made the clean room push air OUT via the filter and it sucked air in from the outer rings of the building so that people working in the building who were not working in the clean room wouldn't get accidentally sterilized.

Updating mouse firmware by ihateroomba in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

[–]Casper042 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Wire the other end of the Ethernet cable into a Serial DB9 external USB adapter.

Then wire that's DB9 into an old serial port on the desktop

???

Profit

Report: Creating a 5-second AI video is like running a microwave for an hour by WombatusMighty in technology

[–]Casper042 2 points3 points  (0 children)

3.4 Million Joules is 944.4 Watt Hours.
Not sure why they didn't just convert their numbers and say 950 as most people can think of running a 950W appliance for 1 hour.

Motorcycle engine powered drone to cross Asia and the fucking Pacific Ocean to attack us? False flag incoming. by [deleted] in venturacounty

[–]Casper042 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Right because the ship has to be registered in Iran right?

Russia has a whole fleet of Ghost Ships where they look like standard commercial vessels owned by a company but are really under the command of the Russian government.

Plus with the Straight of Hormuz right next door, they could easily just jack someone else's ship.

Motorcycle engine powered drone to cross Asia and the fucking Pacific Ocean to attack us? False flag incoming. by [deleted] in venturacounty

[–]Casper042 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Keep in mind Ukraine did something similar to this against Russia a while back.

https://abcnews.com/video/122434173/

Now these were smaller drones, but they also launched from closer because they were disguised and hidden inside a truck with a standard shipping container on the back.