Jinna the bureaucracy witchOne of my server nodes is a sort of "leftover consumer parts in a 4U chassis" sort of deal. It's never been especially good but got 24 HDDs online in a pinch to utilize random drives lying around as a #JBOD. This week it started misbehaving more than usual due to a bad software bug that consumed its meager 16G of RAM like it was nothing, so it's been drained ever since. Ordered a #BLIKVM to be able to rescue it while traveling since it also likes to hard lock. Today was the day to install it but turns out I'm out of PCI-E slots, now suddenly needing a fifth. Long story short, I lost my last shreds of five a duck about rescuing it and now there's a bunch of eBay orders incoming including a supermicro E-ATX mobo, a couple of Xeon Silvers and 128G of RAM plus the bits and bobs to hook it all up. (1/2)
Plus, due to getting a real mobo, instead of needing the fifth expansion slot, I'm actually expecting going down to only one since the NVME will be onboard, might use the silly rj45 10GB NIC instead of the SFP+ card, get a real BMC with a KVM and with 3 mini-sas ports I'll need less SATA cards. Cheap it wasn't though even if everything is used enterprise refuse, but I'm finally climbing out of that sunk cost fallacy and into the land of DDR4. (2/2)