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 @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. 4 comments
@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 |
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@wolf480pl I've heard that some models lock the fans at 100% if they detect an unknown PCIe device