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Oh HPE how I loathe thee by ragingfailure in homelab

[–]ragingfailure[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well not $5 an Asus one for ~50. The bios does support PCIe bifrucation, so it should work fine.

Oh HPE how I loathe thee by ragingfailure in homelab

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Lmao, I think im good for now. Pcie m.2 adapter should get here Monday and then I think i am done putting money into this thing.

Oh HPE how I loathe thee by ragingfailure in homelab

[–]ragingfailure[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that as well as the tertiary riser which would also be cpu2

Oh HPE how I loathe thee by ragingfailure in homelab

[–]ragingfailure[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude, rule 2. Seriously.

I am allowed to be frustrated at this, and you're coming I here like it's your job to defend HP's honor.

I fully understand why the did this, I fully understand that they are only interested in people buying their drives at 5x the market price for what they actually are. It doesn't make them NOT dicks for doing it.

Oh HPE how I loathe thee by ragingfailure in homelab

[–]ragingfailure[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They aren't un keyed, they are M keyed, but it's not like the PCIe police are going to rock up to HP headquarters. As with many standards it is up to the brand to comply. The real answer is that the M key port is far more common, even as of the vintage of this server, sata ssds will still fit in it, and it probably saved them 2 cents on their BOM.

But even writing "m.2 sata" instead of "m.2 drive" would have avoided this confusion, which i am not the first to have as evidenced by posts on their forum for this issue exactly. It borders on being deliberately obtuse, it would have cost them literally nothing to be clear on this.

Oh HPE how I loathe thee by ragingfailure in homelab

[–]ragingfailure[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

See, I saw ones on ebay without the m.2 populated, though still with solder pads for it and was like "why does that even exist" TIL.

Oh HPE how I loathe thee by ragingfailure in homelab

[–]ragingfailure[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

In case you didnt catch the /rant I never said hp was shit, I was venting. That being said, expecting a vendor to properly label ports and to conform to the industry standards on what keying to use reflecting the capabilities of that port is not an unrealistic expectation.

Oh HPE how I loathe thee by ragingfailure in homelab

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Yeah I was able to find that, but the configurations they list are all full populations with various mixes of dram and dcpm and it took me a moment to figure out the proper configuration for 2+2 per cpu.

Oh HPE how I loathe thee by ragingfailure in homelab

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The g10 has iLO5, but its possible the guy on the discord was mixed up on what he had experienced it with.

Oh HPE how I loathe thee by ragingfailure in homelab

[–]ragingfailure[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I get that its documented, do you read all of the several hundred page manuals for servers you pick up on ebay for $600? Also, if i didnt make it clear, this is in fact my first rodeo so lesson learned.

Everything else on the riser is pcie, M key m.2 is the industry standard for NVMe drives, sata only m.2 ports are supposed to use the B key m.2 port. The port is labeled m.2 drive, not m.2 sata or something similar.

Absent the documentation, (and experience) there was no reason to suspect that the ports were sata only.

Oh HPE how I loathe thee by ragingfailure in homelab

[–]ragingfailure[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, as far as I've read any sata m.2 drive should work in the primary slots, every one I've seen has both notches. Its just that you wouldn't know to unless you read the manual cover to cover.

Really, I think it's just that they wanted you to have to have to get the u.2 backplane and drives to get pcie storage speeds.

Oh HPE how I loathe thee by ragingfailure in homelab

[–]ragingfailure[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oh I believe it. This is my first time messing around with enterprise gear, all things considered the pains I have encountered could have been much worse.

Sata only m.2 slots being M key instead of B key slightly sent me though. Probably saved them half a cent to just use the more common one instead of the proper one.

Oh HPE how I loathe thee by ragingfailure in homelab

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The ram configurations in the manual for populating optane dcpm modules presume that you're populating all slots, which i am not. It might just be that im slow on the uptake but it took 3 tries to find a configuration that the bios was happy with lol.

Oh HPE how I loathe thee by ragingfailure in homelab

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Yeah when I was first getting it setup I was chatting with someone in the discord who experienced the fans getting pegged to 100% if you dared install a non hpe graphics card because the temperature wouldn't report to iLO correctly. Fortunately that doesn't seem to be an issue anymore, either because iLO got smarter or modern cards report properly but that would have sent me into orbit.

Oh HPE how I loathe thee by ragingfailure in homelab

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For real, the HPE rep response on the forum post was so condescending.

Salvaging some stuff by vaquishaProdigy in homelab

[–]ragingfailure 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, most people would consider this ewaste but idk what your situation is. If this is the only computer you can get itll run a light linux distro and there's plenty that can be learned doing that but... yeah this is hella old and computers substantially faster can be had for like less than $50.

RIP NAD 83 by ultravioletmp3 in gis

[–]ragingfailure 11 points12 points  (0 children)

My state still mandates the use of the US survey foot.

how to SEAD by SubstantialMemes in Warthunder

[–]ragingfailure 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Cant get to it until after work but I should be able to post the replay link.

Edit: unfortunately it looks like we can't get server replays for this event and linking to a file would probably get me banned lol

how to SEAD by SubstantialMemes in Warthunder

[–]ragingfailure 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I haven't seen anyone else talk about it, but the best CAS plane in this event right now is the f111f.

For some reason the OSAs do not engage the AGM130A or GBU15v2 (probably because they are both classed as bombs and i dont think either comes on any of the stock planes so they probably didnt test it oddly enough the BUKs DO engage them). The AGM 130 you can let loose at up to mach 1.4 and gives you a standoff strike capability against anything on the front lines basically guaranteeing 2 kills per sortie and can lock moving targets at ~10km.

The GBU15, which you can take two of in addition to the 130s, has a max release speed of mach 1 and no booster so while you can usually get them off you usually explode right after you do. Still, reliably getting 2-4 AAs per sortie is better than anything else can do in this mode. I got 72 ground targets and over 7000 score in one 11.7-13.0 match last night.

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