<div dir="auto">Jim - had no idea you were a HPC eBay degenerate, ahem distinguished individual, like myself. I’ve mostly stopped, tho I still <span style="border-color:rgb(0,0,0)">have a server with a</span><span style="font-family:Roboto,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Oxygen,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:15px;border-color:rgb(0,0,0)">ctive/active round-robin SAS3 multipathing per SSD (1600 MB/s read speed per SAS SSD, and I have four SSDs in RAID0), a </span>weird proprietary high density flash Intel-made server (Broadwell-era) with RAIDed U.2 SSDs, and<span style="font-family:Roboto,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Oxygen,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:15px"> </span>my rack still runs the same 40GbE Mellanox NICs and switch I’ve had for like a decade (though 100GbE is getting really affordable if you’re willing to get into the weeds with a whitebox switch and Celestica). Keeping up with VMWare compatibility has pushed me towards smaller, more efficient and cheaper setups tho.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Got any crazy finds or setup stories?</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 1:28 PM Jim Kinney via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 23, 2023, 10:27 AM William Bagwell <<a href="mailto:rb211@tds.net" target="_blank">rb211@tds.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">On Sunday, April 23, 2023 10:01:49 AM Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:<br>
> I'm beginning to think that HPC may be an addiction best treated with<br>
> low-tech hobbies like gardening and metalsmith work.<br>
<br>
Does not work! Still need a way to read forums for the new hobby you just <br>
spent all your money on.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Total facepalm. Yeah. I have 10-15 sites on jewelry making and tools and supplies I hit regularly. At least a crappy laptop is enough. Maybe if I add an external monitor I can....</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">AAAAARRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!!</div></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">
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William<br>
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