Message from @VirtualTools_

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2020-12-17 04:22:32 UTC  

My main pc is in peices. I need to reassemble it

2020-12-17 04:23:10 UTC  

Looks expensive

2020-12-17 04:23:30 UTC  

So you are using one of your extras right now?

2020-12-17 04:23:30 UTC  

It was free and it works

2020-12-17 04:24:20 UTC  

Yeah my spare has a 3rd gen i7 and 32gb of ddr3 ram

2020-12-17 04:24:56 UTC  

I had alot more computers but I keep trading for more ram.

2020-12-17 04:25:39 UTC  

I just like building PC's

2020-12-17 04:26:00 UTC  

I usually turn my spare computers into nodes for my computer cluster

2020-12-17 04:26:02 UTC  

i got 16gbs of ddr3 1600 + lots of random BS agp cards and dialup modems for 6 bucks

2020-12-17 04:26:59 UTC  

and a 200gb hard drive that for some bizzare reason had a installation of windows 98 on it, but i just DBAN'd it and used it as an external

2020-12-17 04:27:52 UTC  

I have a box of DDR2 RAM, multiple different sticks of DDR3, and even a few spare DDR4 16 GB DIMM sticks but the spare DDR4 is already claimed by a future NAS im building.

2020-12-17 04:28:11 UTC  

What does lots of ram help with on a NAS? disk cache?

2020-12-17 04:29:11 UTC  

I have 4 8GB sticks of ddr4 ram I might use or I might sell

2020-12-17 04:29:50 UTC  

Depends on where I go with one of my projects

2020-12-17 04:30:25 UTC  

i got 32GB on my pc, i would install more buts its maxed out, i use it for hosting while also playing an absurdly modded minecraft server

2020-12-17 04:30:59 UTC  

My main pc supports up to 64gb of ram

2020-12-17 04:31:00 UTC  

What kind of project

2020-12-17 04:31:59 UTC  

Im building a FreeNAS system with 10GB and eventually 40 GB networking. It also going to be loaded with about 200 TB of raw storage. It's going to be a tiered system with slow spinning rust for my ripped movies, SAS SSDs for from bulk storage for my cluster VMs to use, and a pair of Nvme to host all my VMs that are running on my cluster. The read and write cache for that needs a good bit of RAM.

2020-12-17 04:32:22 UTC  

Definitely keep it for the future, barring DDR5 becoming mainstream

2020-12-17 04:32:34 UTC  

40Gb networking! Is that optical fibre or does that work over copper now?

2020-12-17 04:32:49 UTC  

Sounds like a beast

2020-12-17 04:33:04 UTC  

One of my graphics cards in my main pc died and I don't want to use this 1050 to replace it. My main pc has a 6 monitor setup

2020-12-17 04:33:55 UTC  

I'd be using DAC (direct attach copper). It used the fiber connection ports on my network switches but is much cheaper because it's copper. However fiber gets cheaper if you need more then a few meters of cable.

2020-12-17 04:34:22 UTC  

Is it Cat8 or something beyond that

2020-12-17 04:34:32 UTC  

Something completely different

2020-12-17 04:34:42 UTC  

Used enterprise stuff?

2020-12-17 04:35:11 UTC  

I was trying to find sas controllers because sas drives are really cheap and a raid array sounded like a fun tech project

2020-12-17 04:35:13 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/766007595881463879/788987643433189398/DAC-SFP28-LLL-Rapide-SFP28-DAC-Cable-0004.jpg

2020-12-17 04:35:38 UTC  

SFP-xxxx?

2020-12-17 04:35:47 UTC  

Some of my networking is used enterprise and some is new high end ProSumer networking.

2020-12-17 04:36:10 UTC  

For 10GB it's SFTP+

2020-12-17 04:37:12 UTC  

For 40 GB it's qsfp+

2020-12-17 04:39:28 UTC  

wait is this gigabyte not gigabit?!?

2020-12-17 04:40:10 UTC  

My main switch can be flashed with Open Networking to allow me to control my network with SDN (software defined networking).

2020-12-17 04:40:33 UTC  

Gigabit, my phone keeps auto correcting for some reason.

2020-12-17 04:40:49 UTC  

I flashed a router with Tomato to use as a wifi adapter since my pc only has ethernet, but thats about as far as i've gone on home networking lol

2020-12-17 04:41:15 UTC  

i do plan to finnaly get wired ethernet throughout the house though, as fibre internet might finnaly be here in a few months

2020-12-17 04:42:07 UTC  

Software-defined networking is a really cool technology. It allows you to separate the control layer and the data layer of your switches to allow more fine control from a centralized environment with different networking switches from different companies all from a single control.

2020-12-17 04:42:36 UTC  

So like QoS, Subnetworks, and way more, all in one box?

2020-12-17 04:43:44 UTC  

I wasn't familiar with that particular company, but it is a software defined networking technology. Except that one looks like probably a proprietary while I would be using the open source and open standards.

2020-12-17 04:44:24 UTC  

Open Networking is proprietary? Nice name for them...