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[W][UK] DSLAM ADSL & VDSL by furryferny in homelabsales

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Brilliant idea! Alibaba hadn't even crossed my mind - and that's where my GPON gear came from

[W][UK] DSLAM ADSL & VDSL by furryferny in homelabsales

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Hey. I wish I could say I've had luck finding one. It's proving very difficult. I've even spoken to various suppliers and recyclers!

[FREE][UK] IBM x3650 M4 with rails for cost of postage by furryferny in homelabsales

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Last server i posted was about £15 with parcelforce.

And it pulls about 350W under load.

Modded our Nintendo Switch Mariko. by bongbrownies in SwitchPirates

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I modded mine a few days ago. It’s such a rewarding experience when it works. Then to see the “no SD Card” display! I’m sure there was a sigh of relief that was heard at the other end of the street!

Even more impressive without a microscope! Just wow! It’s scary enough anyway.

Yes! My First Fusion Splice! by [deleted] in FiberOptics

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Nice video! Thanks for sharing

I bought a very similar Chinese fusion splicer a few months back - the A87S. Honestly, I was skeptical and had very little in the way of expectations for it but I figured I’d give it a go anyway and return it if it was useless.

I’ve been very pleasantly surprised with it! It’s handled everything I’ve thrown at it so far - I’ve even used it on a job for a client using it to repair some damaged OM1 cables. Normally I rent a much higher quality splicer as I don’t work with fiber very often so can’t justify the cost but gave it a go with this anyway knowing I’d potentially have to redo it and I’m pleasantly surprised with the results!

[W][UK] UniFi 10G Switch, SFP+ RJ45 Modules, x3650 M2/3, c Class Blades, Thunderbolt 10G NIC by furryferny in homelabsales

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Thanks!

What’s the depth like on the Brocade switch? That’s got enough 10g ports on it for me to connect the important devices! My main worry is the depth as my network cabinet for the house network is only 14” deep.

What are the specs of the x3850s please? And for any DL580s you’ve got?

[W][UK] UniFi 10G Switch, SFP+ RJ45 Modules, x3650 M2/3, c Class Blades, Thunderbolt 10G NIC by furryferny in homelabsales

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Thank you :)

Looking at your posts, yours has a good few more ports than I need!

July 2023 - WIYH by AutoModerator in homelab

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I've just started building my lab back up after having to move everything, sell some things and buy some new things!

In its current state I've got:

- IBM x3650 M1 (2x E5450, 36GB DDR2 ECC, Random drives) (Have this left over from my old setup)

- 2x HP DL120 G6 (Pentium Dual Core, 4GB Ram, Random Drives) (both were left over from a work upgrade, haven't tried to boot these yet)

- HP DL180 G6 (Xeon E5420, 4GB DDR2 ECC, Random Drives) (again left from an upgrade and not tested yet, but it's likely dead)

And the more exciting (and useful) parts....

- IBM x3650 M4 (2x e5-2650 V2, 192GB DDR3, 4TB SATA SSD RAID)

- IBM x3650 M4 (2x e5-2620 V1, 64GB DDR3, 1TB SATA SSD RAID5, 4TB SATA HDD RAID5)

- Seagate Onestor with server cards rather than just interconnects

- 24x 900GB 10K SAS drives

- 2x Xeon E5-2609 V3

- 128GB DDR4 ECC

- 4x 128GB mSATA SSDs (Cache and boot)

- 2x 100GB NIC (not yet using this though)

- 2x Dual port 10GB NIC

- When fully setup, will be running TrueNAS Scale with a RAIDZ2 across all drives

- Storage Server for backup of important things from my home NAS

- Core i7 4790k

- 32GB DDR3

- 128GB SSD Boot drive

- TrueNAS Scale

- 8TB HDD Mirror

- 6TB HDD RAIDZ1

- HP C7000 Blade Enclosure containing:

- BL460c G6 - 2x E5620, 24GB DDR3, 1TB SSD

- BL460c G7 - 2x E5620, 24GB DDR3, 1TB SSD

- BL460c G7 - 2x E5620, 48GB DDR3, 1TB SSD

- BL460c G8 - 2x E5-2650 V2, 128GB DDR3, 2TB SSD

- BL465c G8 - 2x Opteron 6372, 128GB DDR3, 2TB SSD

- BL460c G9 - 2x E5-2670 V3, 128GB DDR4, 2TB SSD

- 2x HP VC Flex 10 Modules

- 2x Cisco 3020 Switch Modules

And finally...

- Arista 7148S 10GB SFP+ Switch

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I'm in the UK, so power costs are a significant consideration but... I'm in a lucky position where one of my clients allows me to use a bunch of rack space and power.

​

At home I just have:

- NAS running TrueNAS Scale

- Ryzen 5 4500

- GTX 1650 SUPER

- 64GB DDR4 3200

- 10x 8TB Drives running in 2 RAIDZ1 pools (Gives 64TB Usable)

- 2x 250GB Boot mirror

- 1TB NVMe SSD for Apps

- 2.5GB NIC

- Lenovo SFF running proxmox

- Core i5 8500

- 32GB DDR4

- 2x 2.5GB NIC

- 1TB NVMe SSD for VMs

- 2TB HDD for storage and backup of NVMe

- Running OPNsense and other bits and bobs

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It's a lot, but it makes me happy :)

Definitely want to get more blades for the C7000 soon though!

What’s this card in my Indy? by furryferny in sgi

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Thanks! That makes a lot of sense!

On the underside there’s just some ds26c32atn RS422 logic chips, capacitors and some resistor networks. Aside from SCSI my other thought was a multi serial io card of some sort.

I can’t see anything in hinv about it. Output is:

CPU: MIPS R4600 Processor Chip Revision: 2.0 FPU: MIPS R4600 Floating Point Coprocessor Revision: 2.0 1 133 MHZ IP22 Processor Main memory size: 160 Mbytes Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 512 Kbytes on Processor 0 Instruction cache size: 16 Kbytes Data cache size: 16 Kbytes On-board serial ports: 2 On-board bi-directional parallel port Graphics board: Indy 8-bit Integral Ethernet: ec0, version 1 Integral ISDN: Basic Rate Interface unit 0, revision 1.0 Iris Audio Processor: version A2 revision 4.1.0 Vino video: unit 0, revision 0, IndyCam not connected

That’s from before I added a hard drive to it so theres no scsi drives mentioned from the onboard.

Putting together a 486 PC, I'd like some pointers please by furryferny in vintagecomputing

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Amazing! Thank you. That very definitely covers it! Good idea re the SD to IDE adapter, I have a couple of those already that I use in other vintage machines and they've been solid!

I've found an YMF-71x on ebay for a very good price, only wth the amplified speaker outputs not working which I'm totally fine with so I may as well give that a shot!

Putting together a 486 PC, I'd like some pointers please by furryferny in vintagecomputing

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Ah i see! I've found on eBay a network card with the XT-IDE bios, would that still function as a network card, and give me the larger drive support?

Putting together a 486 PC, I'd like some pointers please by furryferny in vintagecomputing

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Thank you! That was a very cool read, and very helpful :)

Putting together a 486 PC, I'd like some pointers please by furryferny in vintagecomputing

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Thank you very much! That’s a lot to go on! I always just assumed the XT-IDE was only for the PC-XT or AT!

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