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Yeah, and I had that on the dell and it did nothing for me.

But I don't just mean that, I mean Dell power supply, Dell SAS backplane, Dell weirdo PCIe port that only can fit Dell ethernet card...

I buy a motherboard from China I get 4 PCIe 16x which will fit anything, 10 SATA ports, any PSU I want, and the whole thing costs 150€...

@cjd @dcc @xaetacore Poast hardware is all on ASRockRack* -- off the shelf boards with server support -- in 1Us with ikvm. Web server is running Genoa EPYC and the database server is running I think Milan EPYC. Might be Rome.

Speaking of ASRock, the fact that they did an EPYC in ITX form factor is the goofiest thing ever, and I kind of want one.

@dcc@annihilation.social @cjd@pkteerium.xyz Idrac and Ilo is nice if your gear is in a DC or you are not able to access it, at home its nice if you are at the office and ur shit eats shit but if you had to pick between more performance or idrac and you homelab, then ditch idrac

@graf@poa.st @cjd@pkteerium.xyz @dcc@annihilation.social Ours is on a cheeky supermicro board, pic earlier our HV, Trying to squeeze every bit of capacity out it but soon ill upgrade my desktop to a new CPU so that means i got a spare board for a new HV tho it will not run critical shit due to no ECC

Cant wait ​​

@cjd@pkteerium.xyz Good things often come in small packages tho i prefer E-ATX

iDRAC did absolutely nothing for me when I had it on the dells. My machines tend to run for years without problems (knock on wood) so for me it was a solution in search of a problem...

@cjd@pkteerium.xyz Disaster recovery tools like idrac are there for when your OS fails or you have hardware issues, it can detect issues in your hardware like RAM and inform you timly about it, it has great value because its there for that one time your shit breaks

For companies having the ability to remote into their bare metal server instead of sending a Engineer to a DC at 3AM is a life saver because it changes a 4Hour downtime ordeal(In case of no HA) to a trivial matter of checking idrac and changing some configs

Yeah, also I don't colo anything. The big machine is at home and the small high availability stuff is OVH rentals.

@cjd@pkteerium.xyz I home host my shit, gluetun anything sensitive