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Its a fibre channel HBA. Got a old fibre channel SAN? These would work great to connect to it. Otherwise its pretty much usless. You might be able to get IP packets over it, but with how cheap 10GBE stuff is there days thats a much better option to move data faster than 1GBE.

 

 

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So, a while back I bought an old HP ProLiant ML370 G5, and it came with 2 of these things.

Since I can't find any helpful documentation about them, I want to ask here if someone has an idea what I could do wit them.20240108_203646.thumb.jpg.4a72e8c142903bd812955522fc3afb92.jpg

 

The chip reads:

EMULEXR

L2B2777

ZEPHYR 1.1

2800648

T 0844

WEK44267.1

KOREA

 

The backside:

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What I found out is that it is a dual channel 2x4Gbit/s fiber optic host bus adapter, but not much more of value.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated!

English is not my first language, so please excuse any confusion or misunderstandings on my end.

I like to edit my posts a lot.

 

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PSU: Gigabyte P450B EVGA 600BR EVGA 750BR

Cooling: 2x Delta GFB1212VHG w. PWM

OS: Windows 11 Home

 

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Its a fibre channel HBA. Got a old fibre channel SAN? These would work great to connect to it. Otherwise its pretty much usless. You might be able to get IP packets over it, but with how cheap 10GBE stuff is there days thats a much better option to move data faster than 1GBE.

 

 

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Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Got a old fibre channel SAN? These would work great to connect to it.

Sadly I only have the server that they were installed in, I guess I'll just hold on to them until I get some more hardware to play with.

Thanks for the help!

English is not my first language, so please excuse any confusion or misunderstandings on my end.

I like to edit my posts a lot.

 

F@H-Stats

The Folding rig:

CPU: Core i7 4790K

RAM: 16 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3-1600

GPU 1: RTX 2070 Super

GPU 2: GTX 1060 3GB

PSU: Gigabyte P450B EVGA 600BR EVGA 750BR

Cooling: 2x Delta GFB1212VHG w. PWM

OS: Windows 11 Home

 

Linux let me down. 

.- -- --- --. ..- ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello!

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