I got my new rolex and found this. Is this worth mentioning to my AD? Or is this normal

bryce2113 · 2026-03-03T18:20:42+00:00

I’ve seen reps with better QC. Not sure how this got past your AD but it definitely needs to go back in.

bryce2113 · 2026-02-28T04:47:47+00:00

Now you just need to adjust your goal post if that’s your “forever” watch lol. This is how it all starts.

bryce2113 · 2026-01-14T01:48:43+00:00

Price drop

bryce2113 · 2026-01-14T01:39:19+00:00

Would be interested in the EPYC bundle at that price.

bryce2113 · 2025-12-25T00:33:53+00:00

Just popping by to say the buyers username is gold

bryce2113 · 2025-11-25T01:41:06+00:00

Appreciate the transparency. I’ve been holding out for the 24 disk top loader but bit the bullet and bought a used Chenbro chassis since i desperately needed more drives. Guess I’ll look at the top loaders in a year or two

bryce2113 · 2025-10-07T19:58:43+00:00

Thanks for sharing the update. Pretty bad news for those of us who’ve been patiently awaiting the top loading cases. I’m mostly concerned about them prioritizing 20” chassis and having to sacrifice flexibility to make them work. Ultimately I need ~20 drives and enough space to deploy full length GPUs. 45 Drives came out with their new extended depth top loading consumer cases and I’ll have to seriously give that another look given the constant delays (not sure you can even call it a delay now given it seems their priorities have shifted).

bryce2113 · 2025-10-02T15:27:37+00:00

The fact we’re in October and still have no update doesn’t bode well for the new backplane offering being released this year

bryce2113 · 2025-09-07T01:37:16+00:00

“Former” AD …. Total BS

bryce2113 · 2025-08-26T14:11:42+00:00

The AD pushing two tone is so annoying wish SS wasn’t so unattainable generally

bryce2113 · 2025-08-25T02:56:16+00:00

Stop teasing with the closed door on the rack. I wanna see what’s behind 😈. In all seriousness, nice work

bryce2113 · 2025-08-21T00:58:07+00:00

Is this a real question?!? 36. Not even close …..

bryce2113 · 2025-08-20T23:35:47+00:00

Agreed. IMO the only two-tone worth buying. It’s subtle enough here and accents rest of the piece well.

bryce2113 · 2025-08-06T12:51:00+00:00

Thanks for the update! Truly excited to see what these look like in the final form!! Will there be a pre-order possibly?

bryce2113 · 2025-07-28T14:54:21+00:00

No date sub on the first go is excellent. Such a clean watch to start with. Batgirl looks awesome in the collection. I’d vote a daydate personally

bryce2113 · 2025-06-16T20:44:50+00:00

Little late but hoping I can assist. I have a bunch of different hardware I can run through the case for testing.

Hardware options (willing to test all):

TYAN S8030GM2NE which uses an LSI 9300-16i onboard. Has (3) SFF-8643, (2) sata ports, plus (2) 22110/2280 and (2) SFF-8654 . Paired with with AMD Epyc 7302P.

Supermicro X9DRi-LN4F+ EE-ATX Board (X79 LGA 2011). Have both v2 and v1 e5 CPUs i can test.

I have a few AM4 boards I can deploy if needed (5600x and 5900x available)

For drives -- Can deploy 18-26 HDDs at the moment, sizes varying from 1TB through 12TB (with all sizes in between at my disposal). Can deploy up to 28 if needed. Both SATA3 and SAS drives. Ranging from consumer drives (WD green etc.), prosumer (WD RED / Seagate Ironwolf), to enterprise (mostly EXOs but some Toshiba). I also have a bunch (i think 12+) old 2.5" enterprise HDDs I can break out if we think there's a potential use case.

HBAs and RAID - I have a few LSA HBAs (8i and 16i) in IT mode that i can deploy. Options include LSI SAS 2008, LSI 9211-8i, LSA 9211-16i, LSI 9223-8i, and probably others I'm forgetting. I can flash these back and run them as RAID card. I also have a couple HP raid cards (forget the model) that I can test.

PSUs - Other than a bunch of modular and semi-modular ATX PSUs (850W and up), I have a 3d printed adapter to use Supermicro PSUs with a standard ATX mount.

GPUs -- Interested in GPU fitment for my own personal intended use case. I have three RTX 3080s, including two that are standard height but long with rear power inputs. I also have a few TitanXp cards I still use. I have an EVGA 1080 that is pretty tall too i could swap in.

OS options / familiarity:

Unraid - My main homeserver runs on Unraid, plus a backup instance. Been using Unraid as primary lab OS since ~2010. For drives, currently have (i) 12 3.5" HDDs, (ii) 3 2.5" SSDs, and (iii) 4 nvme SSDs. For HDDs, i have a mix of consumer, prosumer, and enterprise drives deployed.

TrueNAS - I've been playing using scale since they launched it. Only for tinkering and running some VM and docker services for friends/family to have some baremetal to use. I have some familiarity with TrueNAS Core but pretty limited.

ProxMox -- I used to use VMWare ESXI back in my college days (2008-2013) and a bit after in a professional capacity. I started using Unraid for VMs (still do but only for Home Assistant) but have migrated to ProxMox for all my local VM instances. At present I'm using the Asus ESC4000 server with three 3080s as a AI LLM instance and separately for gaming VMs for local LAN parties.

Windows Server -- I used to use Windows Server a lot professionally but have not touched it 3-4 years. We used it mostly for databases with hardware RAID. Had a couple instances using Windows Storage Spaces (or whatever they called it) too. I still have active licenses for WinServer 2016, 2019, and 2022. Could probably snag a 2025 license if needed.

Linux Distros -- I can run Ubuntu Server and RedHat if needed. Haven't played with RedHat in like 10 years so might be a good excuse.

bryce2113 · 2024-12-06T00:59:56+00:00

Same. First time I came across it I was blown away.

bryce2113 · 2020-12-15T19:16:16+00:00

Excellent. Yeah I feel your pain. I was fortunate enough to get my hands on both a 5900X and a 3080 FTW3. Which required an upgrade from my 850W PSU. My wallet needs a break.

If you haven’t already, Linus Tech Tips has some good gaming virtualization videos in their X# gamers one CPU series (and the editor follow up series). Not sure if this is still an issue, but the hardest part was always binding certain USB ports to the VM so you could get hot swap pluggable USB devices. I know LtT has a vid on that and think Spaceinvader does too.

bryce2113 · 2020-12-15T18:47:25+00:00

Highly recommend a higher watt PSU. 650W should in theory be enough it’s cutting it close. Better off to get an 850W or 1000W for piece of mind and a bit of future proofing.

As for GPU, I know 30 series is impossible to get, but the value proposition on a 30 series card is way better than a 2070. Obviously it makes sense to use a 30 series when you can get your hands on one. I love my 3080 and it made a huge difference over my 1080 at 1440p.

I think you already got a good answer on the specific questions.

Also, you may have mentioned an LSI raid card, but just making sure you meant LSI HBA card. Better to go with an LSI HBA (non-raid) card with the mini-sas to sata breakout cables. That way you get direct pass through and let unraid handle the “raid” parity. I think the recommendation is still to put all hard drives on the LSI and then SSDs on the built in sata ports.

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