What's your latest tech purchase?

[lexluthermiester]

I've had seriously bad luck with 2.5" mech drives

I've not had "bad" luck with 2.5's, but will concede that they fail more often.

but 3.5" seem to either fail early, or live forever

Agreed.

 

[Count von Schwalbe]

Well maybe this will now put me in that crazy section A mate and I clubbed together and we've grabbed 30 x 8TB HGST Enterprise drives (Yes these where server hard drive pulls, so second hand drives... I'm not made of money!!) Now I've a few Dell servers that some are going in (hopefully tomorrow all being well....) and then some will be headed for my HomeServer that I do plan on setting up in a different but similar RAID setup to try and eliminate some of that 110MB/sec network transfer rate and the 250MB/sec+ drive speed limitation. Maybe that bit is one for our home lab section....

240TB?!? Good heavens! Exascale here we come!

 

[phill]

240TB?!? Good heavens! Exascale here we come!

That's not including the other drives I have around here, but I'd like to get a few more of those as well You know, just to make sure you have enough storage

Hopefully the 8TB drives will be going into the server today, I hope to get both servers installed and completed today (Project deadlines and all )

I've had seriously bad luck with 2.5" mech drives, but 3.5" seem to either fail early, or live forever

At the moment out of the 14 I've tested, only one so far has any issues, which has been under the SMART attributes.. The drive did test fine for errors which I thought was a little ironic but still I do an error check on them and that takes about 13 to 14 hours (drive speed depending) and then if I'm really feeling it, I'll do a write zero's test and verify, which takes about 26 hours to do both tests. Thank god I'm not doing my 16TB drives or the 18TB ones for that matter.....

 

[framebuffer]

Happy 2009 to everyone!

 

[P4-630]

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Happy 2009 to everyone!

Sealed collecters item.... It's a shame to open it or maybe not...

Nice one!

 

[framebuffer]

Sealed collecters item.... It's a shame to open it or maybe not...

Nice one!

yep will stay like this, I have plenty of (some better) X58 boards to play with

 

[stinger608]

Man @framebuffer , what a bad ass score man!!!!!!!!

 

[SpittinFax]

Got a bunch of new switches for doing my first custom mechanical keyboard. I'm keeping it low-cost by starting with a Redragon K552 Kumara and throwing a tonne of mods at it. Overall it should be a decent keyboard and total cost around the US$70 mark.

I'm going with Akko Sakura linear switches and lubing them by hand. First time ever I've done this and each switch takes about 5 minutes to lube, obviously there's methods to do it faster but it still a very tedious process. Listening to podcasts or livestreams while lubing is highly recommended.

 

[PerfectWave]

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Happy 2009 to everyone!

It is easy to repack using a shrink wrapping machine. Anyway nice mb

 

[framebuffer]

It is easy to repack using a shrink wrapping machine. Anyway nice mb

yes but I checked and it has also the original adhesive seals (what's the correct name in English?) on both sides, so should be legit new old stock

 

[Tomgang]

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Happy 2009 to everyone!

Nice board and still sealed. That´s a rare one.

It´s no longer than last year i was still rocking X58 as well. With I7 980X, ASUS P6X58D Premium board, EVGA GTX 1080 TI and a Samsung 980 256 GB Nvme SSD for OS and some other goodies.
if you wanna talk about X58, i open for it. Was on X58 for twelve years before going to AMD Zen 3 with two systems. Want a talk, send me a PM.

And yeah happy 2009. For me it was may 2009 i got my X58 system but not with the setup mentiened above. That first came way later.

 

[JATownes]

I decided to ditch the Corsair QL120 fans on my radiators. They are beautiful fans, but are not good at all as radiator fans, so I decided to swap them out with these Asus Maglev fans. Found them on sale, so decided to give them a shot.

Hoping to get them swapped out this week and see how the cooling performance differs.

 

[joemama]

Just got my new bluetooth earphones yesterday

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Kenwood KA-3020SE, still a pretty nice sounding amp.

 

[GreiverBlade]

3rd Elite 8300 oh well the i5-3570 from the Pro 6300 will join the i7-3770 on the CPU shelf

so, now i have 3 i7-3770 to give a deep clean and setup, plus 1 more for the CPU collection and 1 i5 more (happy about that, i had none in the collection )

and deep cleaning they will need, i swear something furry died in these intake (the top one will not be "refurbished" since it's the Pro 6300 and also the bottom right one since it's the "extra" Elite 8300 which will be converted for htpc purpose once i find a RX 6400 4gb and swap the Blu-ray from the Athlon 5350 build to it, not that i need it although)

Spoiler: that's cute, i would have never thought i would get a 3770 and a 3570 for my collection :)

 

[P4-630]

Elite 8300 which will be converted for htpc purpose

What will you do with the rest of these systems?

 

[GreiverBlade]

What will you do with the rest of these systems?

refurb, and reselling, i hate fully functional setup like these being tossed away as e-waste ...

i did the same some years ago with 5 DC7900 with C2D E8500 which each of them sold for 80chf
a Elite 8300, start at a price of 240chf with mouse and keyboard (refurb), i have powercords but no M/KB, thus i will lower the price a bit (not too much since a 3770 resell around 50-100chf )

so three 3770 to sell, one to keep (CPU collection or HTPC conversion) and one 3570 purely for the collection (the Win7 Pro COA of the Pro 6300 is a bonus all the Elite 8300 have Win8 sticker)

still need to find 3 HDD but i should have them, and i think of recycling the single 8gb DDR3 HyperX Fury of the Athlon 5350 build for the Elite 8300 i will keep, for the other i have 3x 2x2gb PC3 10600, so 4gb a piece.

 

[maxx2575]

refurb, and reselling, i hate fully functional setup like these being tossed away as e-waste ...

good man

 

[erocker]

Not tech, but is largely responsible for getting me into it. Signed copy of Neuromancer by William Gibson. Should get here in September. Really excited to get it.

 

[lexluthermiester]

New toys today!






A Redragon Shiva512W and a UGreen USB3.0 SD&MicroSD card reader. Been looking for the Shiva512 in white for a while and Amazon finally got them back in stock. Finally have the matching set! Actually, I have both the Shiva 512 keyboard and the Griffon M602 mouse in black and white matching sets. Good grief do I love the feel of this keyboard!

@Redragon
Folks, you scored a win with this keyboard & mouse! You should make an official set of them! Just throwing it out there..

 

[SN2716057]

I bought the Mi Band 4 but was send the 5. The pairing to phone was a bit clumsy but luckily it doesn't need the phone to work.
The heart rate is actually somewhat reliable (5% off) but only if you tighten it firmly on your arm, however it's NOT comfortable.
So far, after 4 days, battery life is good but I haven't charged it fully. The claim is 336 hours.

 

[Liviu Cojocaru]

I have settled to having 2 4K 28" Samsung monitors. Beside the 4K G70A I got another 28" 4K UR550 and I have to say I am very pleased with the picture quality of this screen, it was £192 brand new from Samsung.
I also got this 1TB external SSD T7 Touch, this came as a free gift with my 4K G70A Gaming monitor.

 

[hm1342]

I picked up an Asus Z97-A (USB 3.1) board. I am trying to build a decent 4790k gaming rig for some older AAA titles and take a shot at some newer ones as well. For now I'll stay at 1080p - looking at the RX 6600 XT as the eventual GPU ( I'm running a GTX 980 Ti with it right now). Not sure if a better GPU for 1440p would be worth it.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

In '21, for 200 percent-sure, it would only happen in a dream!

SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 6750 XT Video Card 11318-01-20G - Newegg.com

 

[phill]

Here's a few purchases I've made over the last few days... Nothing massive I don't believe but I should have waited! Onwards!

I was on the look out for some cheap and I mean cheap USB drive caddies for just a few that I have laying about here I use for benchmarking or carrying drivers around for other machines... Not everything goes on the network so sometimes its easier to have a drive handy with some tools on



Whilst they are fairly well, cheap and are definitely made from what feels like cheap cheap cheap plastic, they house the drive in nicely and it's all OK in there... I believe I have done some speed tests with my little i3 micro desktop and my i7 6700k, surprisingly of which there wasn't much of a difference and more importantly, it worked

Been trying to find some cheap 2.5" drives.. Was looking out for a 2TB but they seemed overly expensive still and what I couldn't understand was why the slim models where cheaper than the 'full sized' 2.5" models.... But oh well With a bit of searching and an Ebay code, I managed to get 4 1TB 2.5" drives for just over £50 posted, so score in my book
All of them, considering, had low hours and power on counts, so I'm hoping that's a win for me



This definitely should have waited but I have been dying with my i3 when it comes to general speed and such so I spoke to a mate who I suppose I should blame for all of this and I went searching like a loony as usual... I came back with this little treasure....



It's a Dell OptiPlex 3080 micro PC, which surprisingly comes with an i5 10500T, so 6 cores and 12 threads (the 9500T that my mate had was a 6 core no HT), came with 8GB of RAM and a 256GB NVME drive, which whilst isn't the fastest but will certainly be faster than a standard SATA SSD drive.
Power usage and such is great when idling, around 6w. When I ran CB R15/R20/R23, I was able to hit as far as 65w from the plug, didn't try as yet any 3D graphics, I'm not sure it'll be that great but again probably a fair bit better than the i3 6100U/520 GPU in the one I'm currently using... I've 16GB of RAM in the i3, so I'll swap it over to the Dell and see how we go. 8GB of RAM for Windows 10/11, just too damn low....

Now here we go again with another Supermicro 10Gb network card.....



Oh these have been getting far too much like hard work of late.... So now I have two for my Dell R730 servers, so they can hopefully transfer the data a little more quickly than 110MB/sec.... As you can see these two came with half height brackets and not full height models sadly so I went hunting for some....



I found the first lot which was cheap, £2 a bracket I think?? They did not fit.... Then I came across these Supermicro ones..... (PCS Full Height Bracket Supermicro for AOC-STGN-i2S AOC-STGN-i2S 2.0 #133910239548)



And guess what, they didn't fit either......
So because I'd wasted so much time waiting for the post (coming from China...) I thought I'd try see if these fit....



Not quite.... So as I was getting rather annoyed at this point and thought, I have an idea with the original brackets.
I have managed to get the two cards that have the fan's on them and not the silver heatsink, that one needed a little more modification... I'll carry this one on in my project thread and I must give out a special mention for @Mussels and his amazing thread in the project forum.... Inspiration to us all!!

Hopefully now, no more spending !!