July 24, 201213 yr The Silverstone is silent whilst the machine idles ... So is the Seasonic - the fan doesn't run below 25% load. I have the X650, and I've only ever heard the fan on power up, never during use.
July 25, 201213 yr The Silverstone is silent whilst the machine idles ... So is the Seasonic - the fan doesn't run below 25% load. I have the X650, and I've only ever heard the fan on power up, never during use. Crap, I meant to say that the Seasonic is silent at low loads due to the fan not spinning up... which for unRAID would be most of the time. The Silverstone does not claim that. Sorry I mixed up the brands.
July 25, 201213 yr You need a SSI-compliant PSU for these boards. I'd go with the known quantity, ie the Seasonic or corsair ax
July 25, 201213 yr You need a SSI-compliant PSU for these boards. I'd go with the known quantity, ie the Seasonic or corsair ax If only I had a use for another high wattage PSU that wasn't going into this machine, then I'd get the Silverstone, test it in the Supermicro board, if it worked, then great, but if it didn't then at least the Silverstone doesn't go to waste. As it stands though, the plan is to consolidate servers so I've no case for saving the money on the Silverstone I'm planning two 4RU servers initially to go into the rack so the $50 saving for each PSU is a $100 saving overall which can go towards more drives I guess. Anyways, saving money went out the door a while back when I opted for a nicer rack so what's an extra $100 in the grand scheme of things. All these hardware compatibility issues regarding unRAID 5 is giving me plenty of time to think things through though, and for now despite the fact I've only used 1 of the 2 Pro licenses I've purchased. I think I will test out the competition and see how that goes... if I end up going with another product, no big deal, the years of trouble free operation my first unRAID server has provided me has more than been made up for. I should be able to migrate all the data on my current unRAID server into approx 8 x 3TB drives so I could in theory run both servers in parallel until I've made up my mind. Makes me wonder if limetech should perhaps consider making upgrades to major unRAID versions a paid option. I guess only they can know how it would impact their customer base. I mean MS/Apple etc. charge for upgrades to new versions of their software, so it's possible many hear would be open to that idea... anyways I'm getting way off topic.
July 25, 201213 yr Oh noes! SuperBiiz no longer ships to Australia on new accounts This is not going to be fun... looks like I'll have to investigate forwarding options.
July 25, 201213 yr ... looks like I'll have to investigate forwarding options. https://www.myamericanshopper.com/how-it-works.html or http://www.priceusa.com.au/index.html
July 25, 201213 yr ... looks like I'll have to investigate forwarding options. https://www.myamericanshopper.com/how-it-works.html or http://www.priceusa.com.au/index.html Thanks for the links... any personal experiences to speak of? Turns out my sister and brother in law have set themselves up with a shipito account. I might wait to see how their experiences go before deciding.
July 26, 201213 yr I have used PriceUSA on several occasions and have had no issues whatsoever. They communicate extremely well (the emails they send you at the various stages of the process are novels to say the least!) and respond to queries during the process (if you actually have any) very quickly. Superbiiz still shipped direct at the time, but their only method of payment was bank transfer and I wasn't willing to take the risk. PriceUSA allow Paypal, and I prefer that for these sorts of transactions as Paypal's dispute resolution process is quite solid in my experience. (Not that I've had to use it for PriceUSA!) I used them to get my stuff from superbiiz.com - an X9SCM-F-O, a AOC-SASLP MV8 and 16Gb of Kingston RAM at the time.
July 26, 201213 yr ... looks like I'll have to investigate forwarding options. https://www.myamericanshopper.com/how-it-works.html or http://www.priceusa.com.au/index.html Thanks for the links... any personal experiences to speak of? Yes, I have had dealings with both. Priceusa offers a very personal service, with excellent communication. I would certainly recommend them for anyone in Oz - but they do ship to other countries too. Myamericanshopper is much less personal, but do give a good service. One benefit, for me, being in a country where many government offices are prone to corruption (including customs) is that the goods are shipped by DHL with the option of paying all handling charges and taxes at the point of ordering.
July 27, 201213 yr ... looks like I'll have to investigate forwarding options. https://www.myamericanshopper.com/how-it-works.html or http://www.priceusa.com.au/index.html Thanks for the links... any personal experiences to speak of? Yes, I have had dealings with both. Priceusa offers a very personal service, with excellent communication. I would certainly recommend them for anyone in Oz - but the do ship to other countries too. Myamericanshopper is much less personal, but do give a good service. One benefit, for me, being in a country where many government offices are prone to corruption (including customs) is that the goods are shipped by DHL with the option of paying all handling charges and taxes at the point of ordering. Thanks for the details. I think I'll give priceusa a go.
September 21, 201213 yr Anyone received a board lately? I'm looking to order from Amazon, but I'd like to order a newer processor. I would have no older processor to flash the bios with.
September 25, 201213 yr Yes, i got 2.0a delivered, but i also specifically asked for it. This was in Europe, German distributor i think.
September 25, 201213 yr I recently ordered 2 boards as i'm building a mirror rig for my brother. One came with 1.x bios version, the other with 2.0. Boards were ordered together. Noticed at first boot one board behaved differently, checking bios confrmed it.
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