Malice Techen

Looking for the LTT Sponsor link that was for the Ceramic/Electric Face Hair Trimmer. They were on one of the LTT YouTube Videos a good few months back. If anyone has the link to it it would be greatly appreciated. Stay well everyone.

Also looking at this HP it may actually be a viable server just compared it to something similar to it and it may be worth beefing it up for use.

That's the route I want to go on it; my big problem is I have no secondary space to run stuff at this time and if I kill the power bill at the moment well "I am going to have a bad time." (Insert Sans from Undertail blowing me to the next continent.) I just looked at the HP CPU its actually a better chip. Well guess I better pinch some major Pennies/Rubies/USD and either beef up the HP or just go Threadripper down that particular brick road. ? Well if I have not done, so already thank you @kdawwgg1221. ? ?

Ya well let’s just say to do the gaming pc upgrade I payed a heavy price when I custom built my 8700K system.?? I kinda want to start up something eventually and get a better skill set, so the hardware meets work/self employment goals.

I got my 8700k for the gaming with a GTX 1080ti and if I needed too I could go over to a i9 9900k as my new gaming rig can support it/be upgraded as I got a top end board. MSI MEG Godlike; anyway thanks a lot for the info. Should I just pull the removable stuff out of the HP then and send him to server heaven?

If it has ECC ram you are good to use them; highly recommend that the raid card is flashed to IT mode/pass through, especially on FreeNAS as it needs and likes direct Hard Drive access. Personally power and server box size is my problem atm; deciding if I want to part out or keep em. Anyway good luck and hope this info helps you out. ?? ? I’m including my post link as it contains some info that may be of use as well.

Dell has 4 drive bays and ECC 8GB not Maxed out. The cube is Maxed at 32GB and is 4th generation Vs 2nd gen Intel on the Dell.

The Dell or my Old Custom Cube?

Still wondering if it’s worth the $ to Max out the RAM to use it for HomeLab if the power draw is worth running 24/7 and probably dropping a MineCraft box on it lol. ?

I had some Desktop drives that used to kill the system before I had the $ ? for NAS Drives or Enterprise equivalents. Plus it was my old gaming rig.

They make TrueNas/FreeNAS Boxes that are small and secure; along with Synology. I don’t know what the prices are off hand; but if you want a setup that’s fairly quick and turnkey I would look at those units as they have small seizes. Debating on scraping some of bulk hardware in this post as I am having a cost, size, and buy issues as well:

Related things to what I may do with stuff LTT Links at the bottom of the page, so let’s get started. ? I felt it would be better to ask for a second opinion on the matter as I been sorting through the spare bones shelf lately; if more info is needed I'll gladly add it as my goal is to get VM's up and running. PM, Tag, and or reply, so I spot stuff Thanks. ?? As a side note: Got some Raspberry Pi's X2 B3+ models and a single 4GB Pi 4 that are kicking around; the Pi 4 is going to be a Cloud Key2 with Pi-Hole hopefully. ? Thanks in advance everyone from both a Big Fan and Technology Enthusiast. ?? Option 1: Wanted to know if any of the Gear I got is worth keeping hold of (Listed Below). Option 2: Build a Second Storage/VM Box Equivalent to my FreeNAS. Option 3: Save for a Synology box (if so What model as I can fill 12 bays easy) and convert the FreeNas box to XCP-NG. Option 4: Use my Extra Custom PC for VM’s and Scrap all others due to Power draw and age while using the FreeNas as backend storage. 1. Dell Power Edge T310 * CPU 4 Core Xeon 3430 https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/42927/intel-xeon-processor-x3430-8m-cache-2-40-ghz.html * RAM U-DIMM-ECC DDR3 Installed (8GB) **Max Limit 32GB** * HDD Internal SAS @6GPS Cage is 4 Slot internal (X2 300GB 15K RPM Each) * SAS Card Non-RAID (PCI-E and could be moved to the FreeNAS Box) * Plus SATAIII 6 Ports Total Onboard Ports 5 Unused (Raid and Non-RAID) * PSU X2 @400W? With Redundant Backplane 2. Custom PC LIAN-LI Cube (Extra-Possible XCP-NG Box) *MotherBoard: ASRock H87M Pro4 *CPU: Intel Core i7-4770 Haswell Quad-Core 3.4 GHz LGA 1150 84W BX80646I74770 * RAM **MAXED @32GB** (Non-ECC) G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM 2400 (PC3 19200) Model F3-2400C11Q-32GXM * SATA III Ports x6 Unused * X7 3.5 Inch HDD Drive cage * X2 2.5 Inch SSD/HDD case mounts * PSU 1000W G3 EVGA Supernova 80 Plus Gold 3. Custom PC (FreeNas) * MotherBoard: Supermicro ATX DDR4 LGA 1151 Motherboards X11SAE-F-O * CPU: Intel Core i3 6100T BX80662I36100T Processor LV https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/90734/intel-core-i3-6100t-processor-3m-cache-3-20-ghz.html * RAM **MAXED @32GB** Crucial 16GB Single 2133MT/s DDR4 PC4-17000 Dual Ranked x8 ECC DIMM CT16G4WFD8213 / MTA18ASF2G72AZ-2G1A1 32GB U-DIMM ECC DDR4 * HDD Pool 1 @8.5TB RAIDZ1 X5 (3TB WD Reds WD30EFRX 5400RPM) * HDD Pool 2 @1.83TB RAIDZ1 X5 (1TB WD Reds WD10EFRX 5400RPM) * PSU 1000W EVGA SuperNova 80 Platunum 4. HP ProLiant ML350P Gen8 https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/v2/Getdocument.aspx?docname=c04128239 * CPU: Single 6 core Xeon E5 2620 @2.00GHz (System is Duel Socket) https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/64594/intel-xeon-processor-e5-2620-15m-cache-2-00-ghz-7-20-gt-s-intel-qpi.html 16GB ECC Raid Card HP Smart * RAID Array P420i with 6 bay SAS Front Cage * HDD X5 15K RPM Drives with Cages installed (Drive Size 450GB Each) * 460W single PSU With Redundant Backplane Links: #1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1103003-what-to-do-with-13-semi-powerful-machines/ #2 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1103710-wanting-opinions-on-my-minecraft-server-parts-list/ #3 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1101582-re-purposing-old-usb-hard-drives-for-dasnas/ Thanks for Reading. ???

If you have a spare Box load XCP-NG or other hypervisor like @Electronics Wizardy suggested as it may play nicer on a different hardware box; unless you are trying to keep it down to one running computer which I can see. As running less hardware then needed has its upsides as well.

I am going to wait for the i9 9900K price to come down like the board; PD around $500-$550 for it. Plus I needed a new game Hard Drive. Will move the 8700K to the family build when it’s needed as well my old board in it is a i7 4770. ?

My MSI Godlike board is working flawlessly so far and has had no hardware hiccups since. Thanks Lady’s and gentlemen.