am i still paranoid about the news that supermicro motherboards were modified by chinese manufacturers to add spying hardware? I don’t want to buy hardware anymore.
oh, and for the record, fuck the People’s Republic of China.
Zimaboard: The closest thing to my dream home server setup
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Re: Zimaboard: The closest thing to my dream home server setup
#52ZimaBoard has my favorite garbled mess SEO page. https://www.zimaboard.com/blade/resident-evil-village-coming... If you manage to decipher anything from this, let us all know. I feel like I'm missing out on the wisdom of Jerry, presumably the protagonist of Cyberpunk 2077.
What is this, some sort of automatically generated attempt to have search engines associate their product with CP 2077?
Re: Zimaboard: The closest thing to my dream home server setup
#53ZimaBoard has my favorite garbled mess SEO page. https://www.zimaboard.com/blade/resident-evil-village-coming... If you manage to decipher anything from this, let us all know. I feel like I'm missing out on the wisdom of Jerry, presumably the protagonist of Cyberpunk 2077.
Whoa! What were they thinking… or not thinking?
Re: Zimaboard: The closest thing to my dream home server setup
#54If they can update the CPU to either the N95 and N100, it would be the perfect machine. The current CPU is just too old.
Re: Zimaboard: The closest thing to my dream home server setup
#55> This variant of the board costs 200 USD ... Doesn't sound like a good deal when compared with 2nd hand microservers and small form factor PCs from Ebay. Things like these: ∙ https://www.ebay.com/itm/175917817224 ⇦ 2x NVMe slots ∙ https://www.ebay.com/itm/204477355543 ⇦ 4x 3.5" drives, ECC memory capable Note - I don't know those sellers.
We don't all live in countries where electricity is near-free. In the UK, it would cost more in electricity than the $200 Zimaboard to run one of those eBay machines for a single year. e.g. 90W 24/7 for a year is ~£212 (~$258 US), 60W 24/7: ~£142 ($173 US) In this price range, power-consumption is a _major_ decision factor.
These idle at a small fraction of what you feel is the expected power consumption, so your pricing calculation per year is way off. Far too high.
The cpu in the microserver (2nd item) is socketed, so you can swap it out for something lower power if you really wanted to.
For me, I've actually upgraded the cpus in my microservers (several of them) as I tend to use them hard at times. :)
Re: Zimaboard: The closest thing to my dream home server setup
#56A server without ECC RAM is not a server, sorry. It's a catastrophe bound to happen.
May not be a "catastrophe", but this is a perfectly valid point.
RAM bitflips is one of the sources of bitrot. You may use ZFS, do scrubbing and what not, yet still end up with a corrupted data, because it'd be damaged before it hits the storage.
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#57Nothing against Zimaboard but the best part of the article (for me) is his cable organization shown in his conclusion. So pretty.
The author is using an IKEA Skadis setup which is pretty popular in the 3D printing community. There’s a bunch of prints available for it, highly recommend if you need a wall organization of some sort.
Re: Zimaboard: The closest thing to my dream home server setup
#58Nothing against Zimaboard but the best part of the article (for me) is his cable organization shown in his conclusion. So pretty.
There's a sub for that - https://reddit.com/r/cableporn
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#59What is wyse 5070 extended?
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
90W is peak power consumption for these. They idle at about 8-9W measured at the wall socket or $22-25/year.
That's why I included a 60W cost too. What's the point running hardware 24/7/365 is it's idle?
60W might be right for an ancient desktop, but it isn't correct for at least the above microserver (2nd item). From rough memory, mine were under 40W (38W?) when the drives were spun up and active.
And likely isn't correct for the minipc (1st item) either, though I've not got one of those (yet) to measure it.