NVMe wearing out?!?

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 One of the developer machines had an error, further digging revealed hard disk warnings.  The drive functions just fine, but was showing an...

MAC OS on VMware ESXi

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 Can one run a MAC OS as a VM on a VMware host?  Well technically yes.  Legally, No.  In my case we needed to just test how Saffari acts wit...

New life to really old Macs??

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 Apple is really strict as to what OS can be loaded on their hardware.  In this case I have a Mac Mini 2014, which is an i5-4278u.  The newe...

Perle IOLAN Serial-Over-IP switch

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 Do you have network devices that you need to occasionally log in via a console/serial port?   For example one wants a backup access to a sw...

mechanical 4gb USB "thumb" drive?

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 This came through during some e-wasting recycling.  It is a 4gb hard drive (yes 4gb, not 4tb....CIRCA 2001?), but it is has a mechanical/sp...

10gb network card

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 I ran across this and had to research what the heck it was.  I don't think I have ever seen a connector like that before. Turns out it...

Dell A/I GPU Server: Dell PowerEdge C4140

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  Another interesting build.  Dell has a line of GPU servers, and they are aged enough that they are on the 2nd hand market.  The cost of PC...

What's inside a 100gb DAC cable?

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 Ever wanted to know what is inside of a 100gb DAC cable?   I had a defective one finally come through so I opened it up.

Lenovo SR655 Server: IPMI/BMC Password & firmware

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 Early versions of this server have at least one flaw.   If one has a server and doesn't know the password for IPMI access (the default ...

Dell PowerEdge r640: on board SATA ports

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 Often times I choose to utilize the onboard SATA port on my servers.  Usually it is because I want the boot OS drive to be something outsid...