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Hello, I am building a NAS for home, with the top req. that it must be very quiet. This will be a small NAS, say, 4x 2.5" and SSD's only. Can anybody please recommend a compact chassis designed for 2.5" drives? Ultimately in the future I want to build an SSD pool where most of the reads and...

Hello all! I am looking for a slim and portable monitors whose characteristics include the following: less than 30 inches, so more like 23-27 inches or thereabouts; slim, as in shallow depth; despite being slim and lightweight (see below) it not be flimsy; I would like one that is sturdy and...

Hello, I am deploying ZFS-on-Linux as its own separate appliance on the following setup: U-NAS 800 chassis with 8 bays A1SRi-2758F board with 32 GB ECC RAM Debian Buster running as the OS, with ZoL A simple configuration where exports are shared over NFSv3 to my LAN 4x WD Red 8 TB in RAIDZ2...

Hi! I'm upgrading a lot of my hardware, partly due to health reasons, and I'm very keen on getting a nice monitor... IPS I think might be good. I haven't yet decided on the size, brand, or other features. All I know is that I want something that has all the standard features a modern, medium...

Hello! I'm just curious, apart from size and shape, what are the major functional differences between SFX and TFX PSUs? Are there specific advantages of one over another? Of course, using a full-sized ATX PSU is often not desirable when building and SFF machine, so that really leaves SFX and...

Hello, Can somebody please recommend a no-BS introductory tutorial ot the theory and practice of hyperconvergence? I've searchd but most things I find seem to have been written with marketing in mind or for an enterprise target audience. I"m looking for something a little bit more... real...

Hi, I'm interested in geo-distributed computing for the purposes of resilience, redundancy, and HA. I know that this is very difficult problem to solve due to latency, but having servers that are sync'ed up across the world is actually the point of my project, and to see how feasible and...

I think this is a beautiful case, and is the perfect size for my smaller micro-ATX builds: https://www3.lenovo.com/gb/en/desktops-and-all-in-ones/lenovo/lenovo-v-series-tower-desktops/Lenovo-V520S-08IKL-SFF-Desktop/p/11LV1VDV52S Does anybody know if it's possible to purchase the case by itself...

I'm thinking that this looks like an amazing board, and I'd love to pick one up and place a G4560 in there and hope that it's able to be passively cooled in a small case. I can even use ECC RAM which is very cool. So versatile, I'm looking for a small server that can function as many things to...

[N.B. I have also posted this on Reddit and I would value the perspective of this community too.] I want to build a minimal box like the title suggests, to mess around with different hypervisors, architectures, and explore virtualization generally. Once I understand better these things, then I...