Gregory's Server
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 @notthebee Years of PCIe development and NO REAL USE found for anything that wasn't explicitly whitelisted by Dell. Wanted to plug something that's not supported by Dell anyway, just for laughs? COME AGAIN? WHAT? SORRY, CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE FANS @notthebee weird, at my previous job we got some random second-hand 10G NIC, x3, and put one in PowerEdge 2900, one in R540, and one in R710, they all worked fine. Dell does have a whitelist for HDDs, but not being on the whitelist only gives you a permanent "non-critical" (warning) state on the drives, they otherwise work fine. @wolf480pl I've heard that some models lock the fans at 100% if they detect an unknown PCIe device @notthebee oh, well I wouldn't notice that since it was loud as hell in the server room. But yeah for homelab use that'd be annyoing. But also I can see their reasoning since they have no idea how much cooling that card may need. @notthebee Also, regarding motherboards, I was kinda serious: I don't see myself reusing a PowerEdge chassis for a different motherboard, and R5xx looks way more amateurish than R7xx, which has hot-swap fans, PSUs that plug directly into the motherboard, etc. @notthebee @wolf480pl Pretty sure HPE also did something like that, I run 2 HPE boxes and just installed hacked firmware: https://github.com/kendallgoto/ilo4_unlock   |
@notthebee a femboy hooters employee is a server though