Just a heads up for anyone looking into building a small, low power NAS. There are a good amount of X10SDV-4C-TLN2F available on ebay right now out of China for around 250 USD. 4C/ 8T Xeon D-1521 Dual 10G Ethernet 6x SATA3 1x m.2 DDR4 RDIMM ECC ASPEED BMC/IPMI PCIe 3.0 16x (4x4x4x4 possible) Jus…

What about this ? [image] DELOCK PCIe 4.0 x16 > 4x U.2 NVMe SFF-8639 | Raid-Controller günstig kaufen... PCIe 4.0 x16 > 4x U.2 NVMe SFF-8639 Raid-Controller von DELOCK - Schnelle Lieferung ✓ günstige Preise ✓ Für Gewerbe und Privat ✓ Jetzt online bei reichelt elektronik bestellen! …

That, or rather the Shenzhen equivalent (Reichelt pricing is… :open_mouth: ), or the cabled version . That should be enough for PCIe 3.0, the main issue being cooling these U.2 drives. For PCIe 4.0, you’d probably want some active component in there. [image] SlimSAS PCIe gen4 Host Adapter x…

That looks like just the thing, though I rather like the idea of the “Shenzhen equivalent” based on the pricing noted at the other link. The board itself is only PCIe 3.0, so it doesn’t seem like a gen4 adapter would be called for.

[image] dan: “Shenzhen equivalent” [image] 10Gtek U.2 SFF-8639 to PCIe Adapter, PCIe 3.0 X4 Expansion Card for 2.5 Inch U.2... 10Gtek U.2 SFF-8639 to PCIe Adapter, PCIe 3.0 X4 Expansion Card for 2.5 Inch U.2 NVMe SSD or 2.5 Inch SATA SSD, with Full Height Bracket: Amazon.de: Busin…

I think this is what I’d use: [image] Amazon.com: PUSOKEI PCIE to U.2 Adapter Card, PCIE X16 to 4 Port U.2 NVME... Buy PUSOKEI PCIE to U.2 Adapter Card, PCIE X16 to 4 Port U.2 NVME SFF-8643/8639 Expansion Card, PCIE 4.0 U.2 with LED indicator for: Network Cards - Amazon.com ✓ FREE DELIVE…

[image] dan: To generate your own, see: Hero! I used web sites of dubious reputation until now. This is going to go into a shell script and in my private git repo. Does not work with X12 (and probably newer). But these come with BIOS updates via IPMI without any additional license :+1:

I finally got around to putting it into my Joplin notes–I’ve been relying on searching the forums up to this point. Finding/remembering the exact terms to search for is a little dicey, as you might imagine. But it worked again last night. You’ve probably already figured out that you enter the MAC…

My xxd here ignores them. I checked with the licenses I bought over the years and I got the identical keys. Guess I’ll use it as an opportunity to practice some python. I want to be able to enter an arbitrary number of MAC addresses and get nicely formatted tabular output. Thanks again.

[image] pmh: My xxd here ignores them. Ah, interesting. Mine might as well for all I know; I just ran it without them and it worked. Good to know, though without saves those five keystrokes…

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dan October 29, 2025, 1:51am 17

I see this board supports BIOS updates via IPMI (you don’t even have to have RAM installed), but requires a license key in order to do so. To generate your own, see:

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