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02/13/2017, 11:52 AMAnd a Skull with 256/512 Samsung 960 EVO total at $1173 - u
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02/13/2017, 12:33 PMthat's a lot of ca$h! - u
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02/13/2017, 12:34 PMIndeed, and lots of horse power..... - u
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02/13/2017, 12:55 PMBTW, the NUC 6th NUC6i5SYH dropped from $354 to $299, guess the NUC7i5 release is just around the corner. - j
Jarian Gibson
02/13/2017, 1:07 PMXeon d is more but you can get more density. Max out the memory and you could do nested hypervisor, etc. - j
Jarian Gibson
02/13/2017, 1:08 PMSo could also reduce number of nucs you need - j
Jarian Gibson
02/13/2017, 1:08 PMAt least 1 xeon d for 2 nucs - j
Jarian Gibson
02/13/2017, 1:09 PMIf you go custom build like I did you can go bigger case and put gpu in - u
user
02/13/2017, 1:09 PMThat was my thinking doing Xen & Xen - j
Jarian Gibson
02/13/2017, 1:09 PMThe sce200 vs sce300 case isn't that much difference in size - u
user
02/13/2017, 1:09 PMI can easily fix 4x E200-8D in that Pelican Case - u
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02/13/2017, 1:10 PMno, more like the depth which isn't any problem - u
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02/13/2017, 1:11 PMbut I want the E200-8D because it has 10GBE - u
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02/13/2017, 1:12 PMAre you running XenServer on yours, or at least tried to install it? - u
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02/13/2017, 1:20 PMWhat would be the price for the non-10G option? - u
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02/13/2017, 1:22 PM$639 - u
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02/13/2017, 1:22 PM - u
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02/13/2017, 1:22 PMand in case you folks haven't seen this awesome portable lab - u
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02/13/2017, 1:22 PM - j
Jarian Gibson
02/13/2017, 1:29 PMYou can build custom & get case separate - j
Jarian Gibson
02/13/2017, 1:29 PMIf you don't want sfp+ or want more core - u
user
02/13/2017, 1:31 PM@User how much was the pre-made demo case again? - j
Jarian Gibson
02/13/2017, 1:32 PMWondering why he went USB instead of using satadom? - j
Jarian Gibson
02/13/2017, 1:33 PM@User: xen works fine on it. I mainly run hyper-v - u
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02/13/2017, 1:33 PM@User: with 2 SSDs and 3 NUCs, edgerouter, case, Managed switch and AP around $7k - u
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02/13/2017, 1:34 PMThere seems to be some problems with Satadom if I remeber correctly - j
Jarian Gibson
02/13/2017, 1:34 PMI've had no issues - j
Jarian Gibson
02/13/2017, 1:34 PMI use the Supermicro ones - u
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02/13/2017, 1:34 PM@User do you have a complete spec list you could email me? - u
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02/13/2017, 1:35 PM@Jarian Gibson Thinking about ripping out one of my SuperServers and trying to to Xen & Xen on that, it has 128GB