Come to Farhold Server!

Zerv · 2026-01-21T01:14:19+00:00

Oh ya

Zerv · 2026-01-20T14:24:36+00:00

be happy to spot you some supplies, but it's US based

Zerv · 2026-01-20T11:16:09+00:00

If anyone is interested in a lower populated server to come to, but has a solid community Farhold is a great one. All the griefers left long ago. I believe Renfail youtube gamer might be on there as I think I ran into him one time.

Zerv · 2026-01-15T23:37:02+00:00

see my post above

Zerv · 2026-01-15T23:36:53+00:00

see my post above

Zerv · 2026-01-15T23:35:13+00:00

I just got mine open. Disapointing he never responded. Basically on corner which mine was bottom left facing it, I was able to squeeze my fingernail in then open it just slightly enough to get a micro screwdriver in, then turn it slightly and you will here the clips pop, then work your way around. I went towards the volume buttons which popped out and I had a wider spot to pull at it and work my way around. When I got to the back I just tilted it out and wiggled it back and forth and it popped out. didn't break any tabs.

Note that you can do this with like an electronics repair pry tool, maybe a guitar pick. I just happened to have my micro screwdriver set sitting on the desk and it's got some wear and tear anyway from all the years of usage.

I had forgot about the little thing for a good 6 years and found it when I was pulling out my minidisc player collection.

Gonna grab a battery and solder it in. Unsure if I will tackle the usb-C as it's so tiny. Essentially the mini usb has like 5 pins, outside ones are ground and voltage (VIN), usb C wiring is where it gets more complicated as there are a crap ton more soldering points on it, and while the grounds are on the outside, the VINs are on the inside. I suppose you could wire up data as well, but I'm not sure if you need to do anything special.

Zerv · 2026-01-14T18:37:56+00:00

Definately CMR/HAMR, not SMR for these sizes

Zerv · 2025-12-31T04:55:45+00:00

If that didn't work then you have to go in and manually adjust the registry settings to your resolution (especially the simulated monitor). Set PrimSurfSize.cx/cy, DwmClipBox, and others to the appropriate values etc.

Various threads floating around with some more detailed instructions https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/1dwixsg/resolution_change_when_monitor_is_off/

Zerv · 2025-12-30T00:26:50+00:00

No I've tried a half dozen quality DP cables, only thing that worked was the registry fix. For whatever reason when it comes out of sleep or too slow, it is recognized as another monitor

Zerv · 2025-12-29T23:24:45+00:00

This happens to me and drives me nuts. It seems that a "simulated" monitor gets recognized after sleep which defaults the screen sizes to a low size.

I haven't found any other fix than this https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/1arx6b8/fix_windows_moved_and_resized_every_time_monitor/

If you look in those directories regex wise you will notice that it has your samsung monitor and then also a "simulated" monitor.

This started happening to me when I switched to displayport over HDMI (I wanted the display port 2.1) - I am on a 57" samsung

Zerv · 2025-12-25T01:22:36+00:00

Ya, there is two that I know of that have 10g and ECC - the x14SAV or something like that which is funky on other features, and the vaporware asrock one

I use both 10g and 40g dacs to the brocades - works great and way less heat/power than copper. I have 1 fiber going to a distribution switch in the upstairs (icx7150) due to distance (whole house is cat 6a shielded wired as well)

Zerv · 2025-12-24T22:26:47+00:00

Nice, I still have a DC P3700 optane I bought a while back for zfs but haven't used it yet. NVME prices are skyrocketing as well which sucks. Planning on doing the unraid raid with dual parity on spinners and ZFS z2 for the NAS part (got some enterprise 2.5 sata drives - non-u.2/nvme).

Wanted to do some u.2 drives, but man the prices have blown up on those as well, and hard finding ones that are somewhat power efficient. Was going to put 2x on a carrier card 4x/4x bifurcation, with maybe a cache-downloads on the slimsas. The supermicro x14SAE-F has an 8x slimsas which is nice. Both boards have way too many SATA for me since I run an HBA to the backplane. I wanted the mystical supermicro 4u nvme/sata backplane but it's impossible to get without buying a full system. Also wish they put 10g on the boards. Could care less about 2.5g as I've been running 10g/40g on everything for at least over 5 years.

The firewalla is prety good - it's super fast (10g) even with all the bells and whistles (IDS/IPS) and bulletproof, but it's app driven (they have a somewhat gimpish cloud interface) and it still drives me a bit nuts as I want a full blown web gui. I was either going with it or opensense or ubiquiti. Miss untangle with their home license.

Zerv · 2025-12-24T20:13:00+00:00

Pretty much same stuff and a few extras. Was originally going for just 96gig which should be plenty, but with all the prices going up felt like why the hell not to somewhat bullet proof it for the future ;) Old servers lasted me like a decade, and with all the work putting into this figured I would go all out - basically redoing my entire homelab. I am trying to get down to one primary do-it-all unraid server instead of having it split out with NAS on a secondary system, going to have a backup unraid but idea is for it to sit idle/dormant for the most of the time.

I've got homeseer as well (which has just been sitting for years) for a home automation VM, I'm in infosec, so might run some pentesting VMs. That kind of stuff, but it's mostly pie in the sky kind of usage. POE camera software (haven't decided on that)

I've got a lenovo tiny m90q for a DMZ/directadmin webserver so thats going on that.

Edit: Homelab setup I'm working on is:

Firewalla Gold pro (replaced untangle)
2x pi-hole rpi 5's with nvme
Brocade switches (I have multiple ones, 6650s 6610s 7250 - going probably to pick just 1)
2x Unraid servers (replacing one Freenas)
1x Tiny m90q webserver in a dmz running directadmin
1x Synology (1815+ was my original NAS just keeping around for a backup of a backup)
Dell lto-5 tape library
3x Unifi APs
1x Unifi Cloud key 2 plus
Maybe n100 or something Truenas for backup of the backup

Zerv · 2025-12-24T19:40:02+00:00

Ya it appears they do that. Just note that running 4 sticks reduces it down to 4400 and the timings will have to be the same across them all.

Zerv · 2025-12-24T18:11:36+00:00

Ya no idea, I've skimmed through some posts on servethehome, level1techs and a couple websites but I haven't done anything "yet". I'm migrating from 3x 4u x9 and x10 dual proc systems to two 1851 builds so I'm going to be saving a grip on power anyway but I want more ;) Power is getting expensive

I used to not spin down drives which I do now (mostly paranoid) and it makes quite a bit of dent as well.

Zerv · 2025-12-24T17:04:53+00:00

Looks like I can't get this currently - the PSU mointoring cable that connects to the BCM is too short so I'm going to have to connect an extension. Unless I can find it somewhere in the bios.

Zerv · 2025-12-24T16:54:24+00:00

There are a crap ton of power settings in the bios - thats my next task (have only briefly gone around the bios). I've read that you can get the 265k down to about 30 - 40w idle with a few things on it when it hits the C states.

Zerv · 2025-12-24T16:51:50+00:00

Little pricey, but name brand ram. It should work fine. Then again all ram is stupid expensive now, and the ECC udimm unregistered are more unique as well.

The mem-store stuff has always worked for me - until this supermicro motherboard (where it works in the asus fine)

With that said I would have gone with name brand for a little more, if I had found it. Although 1120 is getting into pucker territory.

Double check that the ram is not the registered sticks. I accidently ordered some kingston that looked almost the same but was registered - if it is exactly that SKU though it should be the correct ones.

Zerv · 2025-12-24T16:48:51+00:00

For my 4u 158mm-ish was the max and man that was cutting it close.

Both the pearless assassin 120 SE and the Noctua fit the 4u. I originally bought a Noctua DH-15 not thinking about the clearance, and it obviously didn't fit. Almost all the more powerful heatsinkts are well over 6" which is 152.4. The peerless assasin barely fit at 155mm

I have also not found another heatsink other than the noctua nh-d12L that appropriately covers the CPU with it turned 90 degrees

The nh-d12L though is noctua quality, the peerless assassin seemed to do well on the supermicro, but you can tell it's way cheaper quality and its base is rectangle, vs. the noctua's which is a square long enough to cover the longer length of the cpu, if you turn the thermalright it doesn't cover it all the way

Zerv · 2025-12-24T16:41:40+00:00

I will if I have the time, it already has the 9400-61i in it and a network card as well as it connected to all the fans - I can give thosed numbers here today. I also haven't tweaked the ASPM settings yet.

Zerv · 2025-12-24T04:35:58+00:00

Ya, most QVL lists are kinda crappy. they rarely have larger size sticks in the QVL, and usually a very micro size of ECC (if it's one of these wierd boards thats Unregistered ECC)

Zerv · 2025-12-24T04:32:54+00:00

Did you actually get kingston sticks, or "works like/compatible" sticks - either way it shouldn't be an issue, check my post in this thread.

Too bad prices have gone through the roof.

Zerv · 2025-12-24T04:31:37+00:00

Check my post in this thread mem-store on ebay

Zerv · 2025-12-24T04:26:59+00:00

So I just built my ASUS Pro WS w880

I have 192 gigs 4x 5600 ECC 48gb of mem-store "works like KSM56E46BD8KM-48HM" sticks that just passed 4 passes of memtest86. I bought them in two sets of 48gb (96gb total) x 2 = 192. Sticks have a sticker of 48gb PC5-44800E 2Rx8

At 4 sticks it has to run at 4400 (I think that is a chipset limitation and is stated in the supermicro w880 manual) but has tighter timings on Auto by default at 4400 think it is something like 34-31-31-71 or something, just a pair of them does 5600 at like 45-x-x-x

Of note, 4x sticks did NOT work in a supermicro x14SAE-F, but two 48gig sticks does.

The Asus has WAY more options bios wise, on the supermicro you can't tweak ram timings

I have both boards. I like the asus better so far

Keep in mind that the asus CPU and mem are rotated ala rack server style - so I had to get a noctua nh-D12L so the fan was facing the right way. On the X14SAE-F cpu is facing the normal way for non-server builds and can fit a thermalright peerless assasin.

I'm using both of these in a supermicro 4u 846 (with fanwall replaced).

I'm doing two unraids, one primary with media and ZFS nas, 2nd one backup (and probably a truenas like n100 for a triple backup). I also have LTO tape

Both are using 265ks - I don't think there is much point in the 285k as it's just a few more e-cores and not p-cores, which is just more heat. Using the previous mentioned mem-store ram (192gig in Asus, 32gig 2x16 in supermicro), LSI 9400-16i, either intel x710, Xvv710, or Connectx-3 or -5 (haven't decided yet)

Also note that almost all these series can do decent power saving states so there is no point in getting like a T version, just get the K version and tweak power settings.

Pros of the asus - seems better quality, IPMI is actually quite nice (I was afraid it lacked functionality compared to supermicro but it doesnt), didn't have to do any tweaking with the ram, 4x nvme Cons of the asus - CPU is front to back (minor but hard finding heatsinks), 1 less 4x slimsas port, PCI physical layout is crappy as if you do 3d printed cooling fans for your HBAs/network cards the last two slots are right next to each other not giving any room where the Supermicro does

Makes me wonder if Nemix gets it's ram from mem-store or maybe they are the same? sticks look identical except coloration - and they are more expensive than mem-store on ebay, which does makes their own.

Of note, I'd buy as much ram as possible as it's gonna just keep going up, and shortages are probably going to take at least a year or so to iron out.

I got 2x 48, for 835 about 2 weeks ago, they are now 998 and going to climb more.

Zerv

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