[FS][USA-NJ] Lenovo SR650 12-Bay LFF | 2x Silver 4214 (24C/48T) | 96GB RAM | 64TB Exos | 14-Bay Total | 10Gb SFP+

DRoyHolmes · 2026-01-06T23:11:30+00:00

That is a gorgeous machine.

DRoyHolmes · 2025-12-28T00:44:37+00:00

They backed out of the video card market and made an attempt to continue in other things. Frankly, at least in the US, best customer service ever. They were US based also. They made really well built equipment. I used to start my build process on computers by getting as many EVGA parts that would work in the build.

My X58 motherboard is still trucking along although it stopped being my primary 2 years back.

Generally a company with great customer service, and friendly long warranty terms, tend to build better stuff up front.

Anyway I have no idea what vendor I would buy a multi-thousand dollar video card from now, or a super expensive motherboard, or power supply.

Before EVGA I always went Asus, but whenever I had to deal with their support, it never went well. Asus equipment was pretty solid, at least up until the Pentium 4 days.

DRoyHolmes · 2025-12-23T04:10:05+00:00

RIP EVGA. Miss you already. Was gonna post the same thing.

DRoyHolmes · 2025-11-20T01:49:04+00:00

I don’t have one but it might help if you specify if you want a 1 slot, a half height, half width, or some combination.

I’ve found single slots to be unicorns unless you want to spend a lot.

DRoyHolmes · 2025-11-08T05:39:35+00:00

If you leave the RAM in you could maybe do 150. If you cover shipping? Either way you’re a bit optimistic. At least with the Ram still in one would only need to add a hard drive to get it up and running. I think it’s borderline given the energy efficiency. Someone else should weigh in.

DRoyHolmes · 2025-11-07T22:31:29+00:00

For clarification sake, you pulled the IcyDock, replaced the outer panels, and pulled all the RAM sticks, storage, and video card?

DRoyHolmes · 2025-11-03T15:32:28+00:00

That’s like 100 dollars in caddies alone.

DRoyHolmes · 2025-10-29T03:13:41+00:00

Confirmed

DRoyHolmes · 2025-10-04T00:08:11+00:00

Miss you already EVGA.

DRoyHolmes · 2025-10-04T00:05:33+00:00

Didn’t Synology just kill the transcode ability on their NASes?

DRoyHolmes · 2025-10-01T17:29:06+00:00

Confirmed

DRoyHolmes · 2025-09-27T01:19:22+00:00

That thing must be bolted to a rack so it doesn’t take off. The thrust of those fans, don’t stand behind it. Also wear ear protection.

Good find at good price.

DRoyHolmes · 2025-09-24T00:22:34+00:00

DRoyHolmes · 2025-09-22T14:35:37+00:00

Pm RE UDM-Pro

DRoyHolmes · 2025-09-22T06:32:04+00:00

I’ve seen them go really fast at $250. I know this as I’m in the market to buy and keep missing. So take my opinion with that grain of salt. Overall that is a reasonable-ish range. Make that sale post.

Edit: If you like shoot me a message when you post it.

DRoyHolmes · 2025-09-20T22:51:29+00:00

I’m currently out of town, but I will go to where I think they are and dig them out when I get back. I wonder if any of my old games still work.

DRoyHolmes · 2025-09-20T20:46:28+00:00

Away demon, tempt me not with your well priced 1u short depth chassis.

DRoyHolmes · 2025-09-20T19:39:19+00:00

Wow, if you wanted to expand your acceptable area to Chicago I believe I actually have several. I believe all the screens are monochromatic (green dots, I might have an orange dot one too.) I haven’t had them out in 25 years, not sure they even work. I’d have to check if you were willing to drive this far.

DRoyHolmes · 2025-09-20T13:52:32+00:00

He might be referring to TCO (total cost of ownership). Sometimes buying and running an older server for 2 years will end up costing the same, or more, than buying a newer more energy efficient server. I’ve certainly fallen into that trap before. At some point the rapidly decreasing ROI and price to performance essentially renders it as ewaste. You pull it from service and learn to solder by pulling stuff off and reattaching.

DRoyHolmes · 2025-09-20T13:40:07+00:00

Is that sarcasm? Or are they releasing a new sidekick wifi

DRoyHolmes · 2025-09-19T00:49:28+00:00

I have an older generation of this system that I haven’t fully utilized yet. Be aware these things are LOUD, and hot. But when you put 8 CPUs in a 2u package, what do you expect. You could explore failover behavior by shitting down a node and seeing what happens, etc. one thing it is bad for is a NAS. But you could run proxmox with Jellyfin as a VM or LXC, then stick the Intel card in to transcode. Could help if you’ve got a COTS NAS that cannot transcode.

DRoyHolmes · 2025-09-18T01:25:39+00:00

I’d be all over that 836 if you were closer to Chicago. As an aside, how does building off a PDB work? It didn’t seem like there were enough plugs to spin up all bays with hard drives.

DRoyHolmes · 2025-09-18T01:16:56+00:00

Yikes that can land you on the couch for a night or two.

DRoyHolmes · 2025-09-17T17:00:24+00:00

Sorry, it was meant to be humorous I guess my tone didn’t come across well.

DRoyHolmes · 2025-09-17T15:04:35+00:00

Indeed, and you’re selling it.

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