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Agree 100%. My 2 kids wanted new computers and they are older with their own jobs. My youngest is 20 and I pay for everything so he built a new pc. 32gb of ddr5 ram would have been $600... but he got a motherbord, cpu and memory for $600 then...

After seeing what is happening in grocery store prices between a large metro and a nearly rural one that I both frequent, everything everywhere is moving to price gouging because people continue to pay. Stop paying, stop buying and you will see...

I generally buy DAC and SFPs on eBay. They are usually way cheaper than buying new and I have not gotten a faulty one, not have I had any die in the past 5+ years.

appreciate it. It is a LAB and really doesnt do much so i might just keep 1gb. My current 10gb work in win11 and proxmox

Haven't tried them on ESXi but I have several ConnectX-4s and they work well on Linux and client Windows (aka 11 and previously 10). Best RJ45 SFP+ I don't know about. I don't have any 10Gb RJ45 clients. All my 10Gb rigs are using fiber or DAC...

I use stablebit drive pool... Can duplicate folder level not wasting drive space. I have family photos backed up like 8x while others 2x or not at all. Best $20 i bought.

I have the old Intel X520-DA2 cards from Lenovo and Dell. They work in Proxmox and Windows. I also have Mellanox ConnectX-3 cards and they work in Windows. I just fired up ESXi 8.0.3j and my card was seen, had link lights but said down. After...

I try to always use the vendor supplied iso to install and you'll likely know before hand if your hardware isn't supported. I also find it easier to manage the newer image based patching when you can import the vendor supplied version for the...