On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 10:22:38AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
In regard to the hardware advice. The LUV hardware library often has DDR3 RAM for free, but 4G modules don't hang around long. If anyone is upgrading from a DDR3 system to DDR4 please donate your old RAM as lots of people have a use for this.
When I get around to upgrading my systems to use DDR-4, I'll have a bunch of 8GB DDR-3 sticks to donate (with speeds ranging from DDR3-1333 to DDR3-1866). That won't be for some time, though. my current plan is to merge my mythtv box (FX-8150, 16GB RAM) and my file/dns/web/kvm/everything-server (phenom ii 1090T, 32GB RAM) into a single threadripper 2920x or 2950x machine with at least 64GB (not because i need that many CPU cores, but because I really need the PCI-e lanes...Ryzen 5 & 7 only have 20 lanes, which is not enough for GPU+DVB cards+SAS cards. Threadripper has 64 lanes). I can't afford to do that any time soon, though. Even if i could find somewhere that had the last-gen 8-core 1900x TR4 in stock (around $450, in theory, if available, vs the ~ $1000 for 2920x or ~ $1400 for 2950x), 64GB of new DDR-4 RAM would cost around $800 and a good X399 motherboard to suit would cost around $400, for a minimum build cost of $1650 or so.
Also we need more SATA disks, if anyone has disks of 300G+ that they don't need then please donate them.
Don't have any spare old drives, though. I use them until they die. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>