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Topping it up.

Shipping is included.

This is an old thread, but the system is still available.

Alternative would be to pick up an actual used server chassis. DDR4 server memory is dead cheap and older Xeons aren't very fast per core, but they're super easy to get in high core counts for cheap. I have a system based on a Supermicro SYS-7048R-TR with dual E5-2630v4 (10-core/20-thread) CPUS...

Hiya! I've got a 13900k, ASRock Z790 Taichi, 32GB of DDR5-6000 CL36 (Crucial Pro modules), and a 1TB Samsung 980 Pro SSD. Looking to sell as a bundle. $800 or so seems fair I think? For an extra $75 I will send it in a chassis with a 750W PSU and a 240 AIO installed on the CPU. Bare parts, no...

I have a WD Blue SN580. It's in nearly-new condition, in the box and such. Call it $55 shipped?

I have. They're both in nearly-new condition, in box with accessories, with less than 3 total drive writes on each. fanxiang S770 2TB (Gen4) $105 fanxiang S660 4TB (Gen4) $200

Hello! I want the cheapest LGA 1700 motherboard possible. Seriously, bottom dollar here. H610 is absolutely just fine. I would even consider like... a pull from a Dell or Lenovo or something, as long as it can be convinced to work outside of its original OEM chassis. Shipping to 77573. Thanks!

I've got either a fanxiang S770 2TB or an Inland Performance Plus 2TB. Either for $100 if you like.

The Samsung 990 is probably not what you want. I don't know what kind of bitrates you are working with, but most high-end Gen4 drives will be able to read at ~7 GB/s. If write speed is your concern, then there is a *lot* more variability. One of the tests I do is to try to establish the...

Hello! I have three Supermicro AOC-S3916L-H16IR-32DD cards. These are essentially Supermicro branded 9560-16i cards. They are pulls from brand new servers, and have never been powered on other than for the burn-in testing the vendor did. I have low-profile brackets as well, but only for two...

Sorry folks, I got unexpectedly dragged into work. I'm playing catch up and will get replies and invoices and such out properly tomorrow. I hope. This weekend, at the latest.

I've upgraded my home array, so my old disks are for sale. I've got 15x 6TB HDDs. 9x of them are Seagate Ironwolf ST6000VN0033 drives, one of which is a RMA return and thus labeled as recertified. 2x of them are Seagate Ironwolf Pro ST6000NE000 4x of them are HGST 0F26900 Their dates of...

We may have vastly different ideas of what counts as "recent" but I do think $200 is a decent price for this entry point of a system! GLWS

If you can find one cheap enough, may be worth a shot!

Makes sense to me. Sounds like they're just being pigheaded about it. I looked up the Hitron CODA and it's ~$90 on (USA) Amazon. That was the least expensive one I could find from your list. If you can't find one used, that may be an option!

For cable modems, as long as you're at the right DOCSIS level and have an equivalent number of channels, like 8x32 or whatever, then the modems will all be equal at that point. Not accounting for the possibility that the device is just *crap* or defective or whatever. If your provider wants to...

Continuing the plan of offering you things other than what you asked for, I have a Netgear CM1000, which as I understand it is a contemporary to the MB8600. I'm pretty sure they run the same chipset internally. Not sure if it is on your list or not; it worked great for my 1 Gbps cable when I...

Not saying that they are price competitive with HDDs, but if you move outside of the M.2 form-factor then *enterprise* 7.68TB SSDs can be relatively affordable, at least compared to the Sabrent you linked. Newegg has one for under $600.

Thanks! And back up. My personal rig is running a Gigabyte X570 AORUS MASTER that I got in a bundle combo, and I've got a B550M AORUS PRO-P in my HTPC. GB has been rock solid in the AM4 department for me!

Up! Still got the mobo.

I had one of these before, didn't hear anything.

Up!

I've got two things today! Prices are shipped as always, heat is here. One is a Gigabyte X570I AORUS PRO WIFI. It is very lightly used - it came to a couple LAN parties with me and that is it. I've got the full retail box and everything it came with, I believe. I do not remember what BIOS...

Nope. For most users, the effect of SSDs feeling "fast" comes from their low latency, not their raw transfer speed. Unless you're regularly in the habit of reading or writing very large files, 10+ GB at a minimum, the differences between NVMe and SATA will be minimal if noticeable at all. This...

Arctic is my go-to fan vendor. I feel like Noctua are better, but not better for the money. Every time I go to buy fans, it seems like I can buy 5 packs of Arctic fans for what it seems to cost for a single Noctua of the same size.

It's entirely possible that the internal components on these drives is different, despite being marketed as the same model drive. There is also a big difference between benchmarking a drive you boot from versus a secondary drive. That's a pretty huge difference though. If you are willing, I'd...

The only part that matters, in my experience, is having the power supply. If you're going to plug anything more than a headset or thumbdrive into it, get the ones with a power supply.

As the title suggests, I've got a bundle for sale. They've been running in my server for a couple years now with 100% uptime. My needs for virtualization have decreased and so I've swapped to a consumer platform for my 'server' and thus these parts are now no longer needed. Supermicro...

I haven't used DriveCopy personally, but most drive cloning software is able to operate with a fully blank drive. You'll want that because it also needs to clone the boot sector, not just the partitions and such. Once the drive is copied you can extend the partition to use the remaining space on...

While drives can age without being used, I doubt they would age nearly as quickly as if they were on and active. My entirely unscientific assumption would be that for every 3-4-ish years on the shelf sitting powered off, I would 'age' the drive in my mind by a year. Given the timeframe you're...

So age of the OS is a bit of a problem; if this was Windows 7 or whatever, I'd say just install the new drive and use Macrium Reflect to clone the disk. If you can lay you hands on an ancient version of something like Reflect you can probably do it from within Windows XP. Alternatively, you...

Correct, WD Black WD2003FZEX is CMR, so you've got that going for you if you stick with the WD. 14 years is a good run for sure, but I don't (personally) buy into brand loyalty for basically anything, especially over the timescale that you're discussing. Basically as I see it, 14 years is good...

I don't know if you're stuck on WD for any particular reason, but you can consider the Seagate ST2000DX002 if you like. It's one of their SSHD hybrid drives and offers some minor speed benefits thanks to the hybrid design combined with still being a 7200 RPM model, while still being a standard...

I mean, if you're buying something new you could pick up SSDs and dramatically improve the system, even one that old. Unless you just love that super-slow-HDD noise and performance. Plus, generally speaking SSDs are going to be more reliable - no spinning metal or bearings to wear out, heads to...

For gaming? They're almost all the same. Write speeds aren't important for gaming, and almost zero games on the market take advantage of read speeds and latencies faster than SATA. Plus, it depends on the game. Even *if* a faster SSD would make my Valorant map load up literally instantly, I...

Mine doesn't VPN, it has a different type of security wrapped around it. But I'm in TX, and my phone system is in Colorado, so everyone's phones are remote even if they go into our TX office.

Oh. I work from home for the last, oh, decade or so. I work at a MSP, and I run our VoIP department. Responsible for ~50 PBXs :)

But where is the PC? Hidden under the desk, out of sight where it belongs.