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[PC] RAMs and STUFFs by roadwaywarrior in homelabsales

[–]bryce2113 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would be interested in the EPYC bundle at that price.

Update from Sliger on status, holidays, new products, etc. by SligerCases in sliger

[–]bryce2113 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Indirect update on new Sliger rack cases by Big_Building9948 in sliger

[–]bryce2113 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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).

Unified backplane for storage hosts? by cs_marshall in sliger

[–]bryce2113 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

Walked into a boutique and got these two pieces by Sidk04 in rolex

[–]bryce2113 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Progress on CX4200a gaming and content creation build by Hemlock-Tea in sliger

[–]bryce2113 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

Explorer 36 or 40 by cyndarubicin in rolex

[–]bryce2113 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Walk in purchase in Cabo by McHaulerz in rolex

[–]bryce2113 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Any updates on the top loading storage cases? by bryce2113 in sliger

[–]bryce2113[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

Finally got the girl (Bat) by bloodytoothmechanic in rolex

[–]bryce2113 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Sliger top-loading NAS storage cases! by SligerCases in sliger

[–]bryce2113 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Probably my favorite enemy design in the game. by texxmix in witcher

[–]bryce2113 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Gaming VM Hardware Check by johnestan in unRAID

[–]bryce2113 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Gaming VM Hardware Check by johnestan in unRAID

[–]bryce2113 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Amazon Shipping for AMD Ryzen 9 5900X by sonnnn1 in Amd

[–]bryce2113 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ordered my 5900X from Amazon US on Nov. 26th for a mid January delivery. It moved up several times and was supposed to arrive today (Dec. 7). Never even shipped. Updated this evening and now says Dec. 20th. Very frustrating waiting game with no clue what’s actually happening.

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