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Need to add shipping charges to the price...
There's a free shipping filter, but if you're not in that country, shipping costs a lot. The solution to that is to add more marketplaces, which I'm going to next. Where are you located?
What's an HHD?
Hybrid hard drive. Basically, a hard drive with a large solid state cache.
I really like that it is a static website being updated and built on a schedule from github actions.
Number of Drive bays is also a neat filter.
I don't see a filter for drive bays. I'm on mobile so maybe that's why?
Doesn't work for me on Firefox mobile. Neither "mobile" site or Desktop versions. Hitting "Next/Enter" on my keyboard does nothing, there is no Submit button that I can see, and refreshing the page just resets all fields to defaults.
I don't want an Intel with 4gb RAM and a 256GB spinning drive, and OS included? No dice, that's what I'm offered. Without being able to filter results, its just another craigslist/amazon/newegg front-end ... a less useful one.
EDIT: Turns out there are zero fanless non-Intel, 16+GB RAM, 1024+GB SSD/eMMC offerings with USB-C to list. Strange no-one is packaging an OrangePi 5 Plus like so, but I haven't seen a fanless heat-sink sufficient to make that a good idea anyways.
I had tweaked some of the options, but without clearing either-or-both of those last two, especially "fan-less", all I was getting was the five sponsored "results" the top, which changed just enough to make it seem like that's all the results I could get.
works fine for me
I'll try to optimize it, thank you.
Works for me, but damn it's dog snot slow. Like typing takes 1-2 seconds for each character to show up
This; works on Mull; there is no submit button, it just constantly refreshes the results and thus is slow AF from continuously juggling the data.
Using Firefox mobile, everything works and is mostly performance 🤷♂️
Does anyone happen to know if there is a N100 model that supports HDMI-CEC so I can make my old TV set smart with a recent Kodi and maybe some retro-games? But I'd rather not let it consume 9W or whatever such a machine needs all day long. So it'd need to start and shut down on its own. Preferably without manual additional steps involved, hence the CEC...
I've heard but not confirmed that the various NUC models have CEC
I have a few services running on Proxmox that I'd like to switch over to bare metal. Pfsense for one. No need for an entire 1U server, but running on a dedicated machine would be great.
Every mini PC I find is always lacking in some regard. ECC memory is non-negotiable, as is an SFP+ port or the ability to add a low-profile PCIe NIC, and I'm done buying off-brand Chinese crop on Amazon.
If someone with a good reputation makes a reasonably-priced mini PC with ECC memory and at least some way to accept a 10Gb DAC, I'll probably buy two.
I've been running OPNsense as a VM in Proxmox for a year on an AliExpress box that doesn't have ECC. If I might ask, why do you have a requirement for ECC?
Before this box, I ran a Dell R230 with pfSense but got tired of the noise and 40 watt power draw.
I've had zero issues without ECC, so I'm just curious about your need for it.
This is a great site, thanks for sharing.
Awesome! I was looking for one to gift to my cousins
Sadly only for US and UK, or am I missing something?
I plan to add Canada and Australia next.
FOR THE COMMONWEALTH
Anyone have experience with external HDD enclosures? I currently have two 3.5" HDDs, and I'd like room for two or three more. Reliability is pretty important to me, so something that'll cut out periodically isn't going to work.
I'm in the same situation as you, more or less... I have three new 22TB drives that need an enclosure, preferably for JBOD (no hardware RAID needed) but I can't figure out which ones are actually good products... I don't mind using a random-brand product if it's actually solid.
I find it very difficult to figure out which ones will support my 22TB drives. And for some of them, it seems, it's impossible to add new drives to empty slots later (because of hardware RAID, I guess?), which has made me hesitant in buying one with more slots than I have drives, in case they can't be utilized later on anyway...
I was looking at the QNAP TR-004 which was mentioned by someone else somewhere on Lemmy some months ago, but IIRC it would be impossible to use the fourth slot later if the drive isn't included in the hardware RAID configuration...
EDIT: I have also been looking into so-called "backplanes" as an alternative, since they seem to do the job and are cheaper, but I'm unsure if I'll need a PC chassis/case/tower for that to actually work?
If you find something good (products or relevant info), feel free to share it with me.
Yeah, I don't understand why JBOD with a decent chipset is so hard to find. I really don't expect much from it, I just want to slide some drives in and have everything run consistently for a few months at a time. I'll power cycle periodically to apply updates, so I'm not looking for 24/7/365 operation or anything.
FWIW, Level1Techs seems to recommend MediaSonic (timestamp is where he talks about reliability), but doesn't give it a ringing endorsement. And that was one of the better ones he's seen...
After a bunch of research, what I've found is:
- okay chipset, but garbage build quality (no dampening for drives, no hot-swap, etc)
- fancy controller that doesn't support JBOD - non-starter for me, I don't want anything to do with hw controllers
- expensive - at a certain point, I'll just keep my oversized ATX case that does the job
Now I'm looking for compact cases that support 5 drives, like this one (a little too cheap perhaps?) or this one. It just seems reliable 4-5 bay USB-C enclosures just aren't that popular.
I've run a TR-004 for the last 5 years haven't had any reliability issues so far. In hardware raid modes, drives are hot swappable but you can't grow the array without wiping it. I'm JBOD mode you need to power off before swapping drives. The main problem I've had is their chipset is only partially supported by smartmontools due to proprietary crap so there is some strange behaviour there.
For usb, make sure to get one with UASP https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/uasp-makes-raspberry-pi-4-disk-io-50-faster
Just use eBay directly
Also a lot of these listings are junk. The want $100 for like $50 worth of hardware. I personally am waiting for the market to get a little more sane
I found using ebay to be quite slow, and it was hard digging through the listing to find if it had wifi, bluetooth etc.
I've found some good deals e.g this one: https://www.ebay.com/itm/256581174595 for $50.