(Part 2) Best products from r/homelabsales

I saw someone else recommend the Navepoint rails, so that's probably where I'll end up once I'm ready to rack it. Many thanks for the tip!

Rosewill also sells a 4-bay hotswap module that you can reconfigure into this case as this guy did, so I went ahead and ordered one of those as well.

It's really quite easy.

• Silicone mold
  
• Resin
  
• Mix resin according to directions, pour first layer and let partially set (I didn't wait long enough on this batch and the CPU "sunk" too far).
  
• Set CPU on partially set resin
  
• Pour more resin over the top to desired thickness.
  
• Remove bubbles according to product directions (usually involves exhaling CO2 onto the resin).
  
• Post on /r/homelabsales
  
• Profit immensely
  
• Quit job

Update: I no longer need, found a guy on eBay selling 6 X540-t2 cards for $47.50/ea (out of MD! Hope they are just pulls from an existing setup!) and I grabbed the last 2.

Ditto to the above - also looking for 1 or 2 NICs preferably X520/40 (mellanix cards are fairly plentiful on eBay, but if it’s a good deal I’d take them as well).

Have found these as well on amazon, $48 for dual port SFP+ HP cards. However I don’t know too much about them & don’t have the time to do the research on it :
HP 614203-B21 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005CN3CKK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_iAyGDbSPD2WYD

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Listed below are a lot of my dust collectors. Maybe you need something, maybe you don't. Open to offers on all of it, just PM me. The links provided are merely for reference to exact models and not expectations of price.

Here's actual pictures of all the items

1 X iStarUSA T-7-SA 5.25 to 3.5 Hot-Swap bay. BNIB

1 X Kingwin 2 bay PCI-E 2.5” hard drive frame BNIB

4 X Kingston KVR16LE11/8EF 8GB PC3L-12800 CL11 240-pin ECC DIMM

2 X Microtik RouterBOARD 751U-2HnD

UBNT PoE Adapters POE-24-12W (8 available) & POE-48-24W-G-WH (1 available)

1 X DSLRKit 4+1 port POE switch

1 X Cisco / Linksys SRW248G4P 48 port POE switch

1 X HP 2810-24G switch

1 X ASUS P8B-X server motherboard
1 X Cisco / Linksys SRW208 8 port switch

5 X HP Procurve 1700-8
1 X TP_Link JetStream 12 port SFP L2 switch

1 X Cisco / Linksys RVS4000 4-port router

1 X Aten IP8000 Remote Management PCI card

1 X D-Link DSS-16+ 16 port dumb switch

2 X Engenius EAP350 WAP



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I have a brand new https://www.newegg.com/p/2BA-001H-000Z2?Item=9SIA4FH5RZ8543 and https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B016Q89X3Y/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 that I bought for no good reason and would love to get some money back. I'm in NOVA/DC so if that's the type of product you're looking for I'd be willing to meet up with a good deal.

That looks like a good unit at a very fair price, as your original budget was $300, $180 gives you some room for upgrades or whatever.

Things I like:

• Single CPU can be upgraded to 2x 6-core CPUs, you'd need to get a CPU kit from eBay for using 2 units. Though the best CPU for it is the X5660 as shown below. eBay has X5660 units for under $20.
  
• Up to 72GB of RAM if you have both CPUs installed, probably 36GB if you only have one. Unfortunately it does look like you need a riser card, though after looking it up, the RAM riser is part of the secondary CPU kit.
  
• The unit looks complete from the pictures, no missing things which would need to be replaced. A lot of units have missing things.
  
  Bad:
  
  
• Looks like it only holds two hard drives, though this is not uncommon for Dell machines. I'd get one of these with an SSD to install the OS on. https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-2-5in-Removable-Drive-Expansion/dp/B002MWDRD6
  
  Documentation:
  
  
• Spec sheet: https://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/precn/en/dell_precision_t5500_specsheet.pdf
  
• Memory Configuration: https://www.dell.com/community/Desktops-General-Read-Only/Memory-Configuration-in-Precision-T5500/td-p/4629068
  
• Riser Pic see the extra RAM slots: https://www.serversupply.com/images/item/131232.jpg
  
• CPUs for the T5500: https://www.userbenchmark.com/System/Dell-Precision-WorkStation-T5500/78

I have two of these and they work great. I got them at Amazon if they fit your budget.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M0BIPYC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apap_izTAHn7IhYvRl

The cable you linked is a SFF-8087-SFF-8087, but I thought the R710 backplane was SFF-8484? I would need something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Tripp-Lite-Internal-mini-SAS-S510-18N/dp/B00193MCN0

Either way, I don't think it really matters. The only drives in the R710s will be two 146GB 10k RPM drives in RAID 1 as the boot device, which can be done through the PERC6/i that they ship with. The H200 will just interface with the DAS externally (Might as well just get the H200E, which is $10 more instead of futzing with adapters.) This also means I don't have to worry about the storage PCIe slot compatibility.

I was looking around and someone posted this cable along with this adapter and looking at the questions one was a nortel engineer that recommended it and said it works with their products. Ill give it a go when it all arrives. What program did you use to connect to the switch via console? Telnet? Screen? Putty? Thanks for the info about the gateway i wouldnt have known. Looks like im going to have to do a good amount of research when setting it up since i dont know much.

Lol nah I'm good. I just wanna fit [these](Rosewill RSV 4 x 3.5-Inch HDD Cage RASA-11001 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005FHHOXE) into the case instead.

https://www.amazon.com/Conntek-P515L520-L5-20R-Pigtail-Adapter/dp/B006F65P0S


Just make sure your circuit breaker is functioning well first.


It's totally ok to plug this into a regular wall outlet, although be prepared to have a breaker pop if you load it more than 15a.


If you look around, you will find many 15a receptacles on a 15a circuit, and if you load two receptacles with 10a each, your breaker will overload and disconnect the circuit. testing this ups won't hurt anything (assuming your circuit breaker us good), but permanent installation on a 15a circuit is most definitely not recommended.

If you don't find a used one here, then you may try Amazon for a Renewed one. I saved $100 last December by doing this (looks to be slightly smaller savings since new pricing has come down since then). No issues with it at all, great coverage, and it had a 90-day warranty.

This is what I had purchased:
Netgear RBK50-100NAR Orbi Home Mesh Wi-Fi System (Renewed) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DD4KH5M/

I managed to snag 4x 8GB DIMMs for £169.94 on Amazon last month. That was to go in my T20. Best deal I can find is this on Amazon is this.

I ran into a similar issue with a 1U I had found a while back. I was going to use it as a media server running a couple of 1TB 2.5" drives but the noise was rediculous. Even when the fan would throttle down it was still loud. I used something like this before but not sure if your case will have the clearance.. https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Expansion-Exhaust-Connector-FANCASE/dp/B0000510SS

In order to use the drive at full link speed (SAS3) you would need something like this: https://www.amazon.com/LSI-Broadcom-9300-8i-PCI-Express-Profile/dp/B00DSURZYS and this cable to go with it (for a desktop anyhow): https://www.amazon.com/CableCreation-Internal-SFF-8643-SFF-8482-connectors/dp/B01F378UF6

if you don't care about getting the full 12Gb/s from it you can go with the cheaper LSI-9207-8i controller ( https://www.amazon.com/LSI-Logic-9207-8i-Controller-LSI00301/dp/B0085FT2JC ) and this cable https://www.amazon.com/dp/B013G4FEGG/ which would allow you to get 6Gb/s which is the current max SATA speeds anyhow. (SATA1 is 1.5Gb/s, SATA2 is 3Gb/s, and SATA3 is 6Gb/s while SAS1 is 3Gb/s, SAS2 is 6Gb/s and SAS3 is 12Gb/s