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i recently purchased a pair of supermicro x10ssl-f with i3 4160"s for building a pfsense high availability cluster. the board in question has never posted and 99% of the time stuck "system initializing 15" . ive logged in with the ipmi and done a bios update aswell wich angry beeped and got stuck on "system intilising 55" one before going back to the 15 code. quick googling indicates kind of that its an memory issue but isnt definitive. ive tried 6 different ecc udimms and get 5 beeps from the system i have never gotten this system to post and i cannot use the first system to test as the vrm was dead shorted and had burned out the two cpus and the ebay seller is sending a replacement motherboard. i have 3 4150 i3 as the 4160s have both died as the do not give any output on the second board. ive tried clearing cmos aswell but get the same result. if anyone has any ideas or if i should get the second board replaced aswell or if im sol because i put those damaged cpus in to test if they still work.

I didn't realize how much those disk shelves use as much as it dose. also its crazy how cheap drives are getting now aswell. i think picking up some up when i have cash again will be the plan.

I don't quite have a kill o watt but my server rack has this handy panel I made 3 weeks ago I am billed 22 cents a kwh Also the amd system was still in performance mode so savings there. also i had the othe disk shelves in standby a unplugging them saved close to an amp. I didnt think it would be that much but the more you know i guess.

the ups has 24 x 12 7ah lead acids i did replace them in 2021 the i5 isnt set to any sort of sleep as i do not know if virtual desktop or the oculus air link can wake it up. it dose a corsair psu with the corsair link so a may be able to get a separate readout off it

i did think about scheduling but but my gf and i don't have set schedules and working during the day on week and nights the next. the truenas system dose have ipmi so its not too hard to power off and on.

and a pfsense box aswell but that is a pentium 1508 and its setup as just a router and the rack switch mikrotik crs354 48g 4s 2q rm

Most of the usage comes from a single socket epyc 7401p that runs as a truenas server .it's got 12 3tb running in a hp 2600 disk shelf. Aswell as a few vms for plex pi hole and sometimes game servers it dose have 10 nvmes aswell .2 are for the os and 8 are in a pool mapped as iscsi volumes.it also has 256gb of ram I do have a i5 4690 and a gtx 1080 as a remote gaming box as intel ark on my main desktop can run into issues. It is headless so no monitor sucking up power I do have an ups but I'm not sure how much power it uses to keep the batterys charged as it is quite a large unit and has an expansion unit aswell https://www.apc.com/shop/mk/en/products/APC-Smart-UPS-3000VA-230V-RM-2U-with-UL-Approval/P-SUA3000R2IX38

recently i installed a watt meter in my server rack and found out that it uses 1100 to 1200 watts day in day out. there is a handful of systems there is a couple of first gen amd eypc systems and a old 4th gen i5 for remote gaming. i was after some tips and tricks like settings to save on electricity as some months are getting expensive

layering hypervisors is technically something you can do. i don't think many people have run that sort of config so perhaps problems could arise. I would personally test it at a smaller scale on a test system to see if you could break it and if it works it works. if its not . its time for hardware shopping.

i dunno if its what your looking for but i picked up first gen epyc the other day and are pretty happy with it. a pair of 32 cores and a whole stack of 32gb ddr4 dimms. 7551 are pretty cheap compared to 7601 and potentially upgrade to a pair of 64 cores in the future.

if the laptop is new enough and has a m.2 maybe swapping for an m.2 to sata controller might be good https://www.amazon.com/ORICO-Adapter-Desktop-Support-RAID-PM2TS6/dp/B09N34NKT1/ref=sr_1_3?crid=H99X8MVWKAYI&keywords=m.2+so+sata+controller&qid=1691891567&sprefix=m.2+so+sata+controller%2Caps%2C268&sr=8-3 and just have a jumped psu for powering drive

pikvm could be a good option that allows for power controls aswell although i havent used it myself. supermicro motherboards with ipmi really changed how i managed my home server but dose cost a premium.

my best guess would be an intel x550 t1 but its pretty hard to tell https://www.amazon.com/Intel-X550T1-Converged-Network-Adapter/dp/B01D3ZDWG2

seen this ad from a local tech shop one way to sell drop proof hard drives i guess

I have started to build a new nas server and moved towards amd 1st gen system and already purchased an 7401p and 4 x16gb 2666 rdimms. The trouble is choosing a motherboard that fits well The goal is pci expansion as it is a used just a a storage appliance with a pool of 12 500gb nvme drives in a raid z2 and reusing 12 x 3tb in a raid z2 via a pair of lsi sas hbas. The nvme drives will be on pci cards and will be needing pci bifurication to work The system will also have dual or potential quad 40gbe ports via mellanox connectx-3,s Ipmi is must have too as it is in a rack There is a board from asrock that dose seem like a good fit https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=EPYCD8-2T#Specifications And less appealing supermicro board https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/H11SSL-i