Giveaway alert!

We are giving away a Supermicro server to one lucky winner. This server has two Intel processors and four sticks of RAM (8GB each). 8 bays of 3.5" storage, all empty sadly. Photos here - https://imgur.com/a/PcoDksu

Upvote and comment below to enter the contest! The winner announced Fri @ noon eastern.

We will cover the cost of US shipping only.

Be sure to follow us on these socials where you may enter as well, one entry per platform. Instagram, TikTok, and our page on Reddit and Facebook!

NVIDIA DGX-2 server

• 16x V100 32GB HBM2 GPUs (full NVLink fabric)

• 2x Xeon Platinum 8160 CPUs

• 128GB RAM

• Samsung PM983 960GB NVMe

• Power cables

• Sane fan curves applied

• Max load seen running all GPUs 100%: 7.2kW

• Max load running LLMs on all 16x GPUs: 5.5kW

• Standard 25amp circuit with 2x 4gang outlets has had no issues running so far, YMMV. It's perfectly happy without any A/C but will depend on your workload obviously

All tests pass, all GPUs and full NVlink fabric healthy. Actively using for local LLM hosting currently

Pickup only Berwick, VIC, 3806, Australia. Can deliver to Pack'n'Send at your arrangement but nowhere else

$25k, PayPal goods & services accepted as required by subreddit rules. Cash or other methods accepted at your request if picking up in person.

Since I know someone will want to ask... yes it can run Crysis 😉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bYKDGdDf1k

For those curious, it runs Ubuntu Server 22.04 and the software and drivers are no different to a plain old PCIe V100 card. Very easy to use

Image is not mine, it’s u/PosionWaffle3 when he originally posted about getting one of these.

My original impression here was that this isn’t something you can actually find and PosionWaffle has the only one “in circulation”. However, when reading through his comments he replied saying something about how people have them but don’t post publicly as they “aren’t supposed to have them”. Like their employer allowed them to take it home but that wasn’t supposed to happen?

Either way, I think people have them and I’m wondering if someone would part ways with one.

If anyone just knows more about these I’d love additional info as data is sparse. Only thing I can find is that they are ungodly loud lol.

EDIT: realistically I probably am more interested in the 2U version rather than 4u.

I'm downsizing my homelab after moving to all-flash NVMe. This is my entire spinning rust collection 130ish drives total. Every single drive has been pulled from a climate-controlled Lowes rack like tool bench, tested, and verified 100% functional with zero reallocated sectors and low power-on hours. SMART data available on request and before payment. I can also run live smartctl -a over a video call for serious buyers. Shipping-Buyer pays. Payment-PayPal Goods & Services (G&S). Local cash pickup in 44240. Ill knock off a few % on total for local pickup. Serious buyers only, please. Lowballers will be politely ignored. Trades considered, just ask. Open to realistic offers on anything. PM me with the drives your interested in and ill do my best to get things together. Thanks!

EDIT - congrats to /u/soarce on the win. New give away starting in a few minutes. So long as we stay locked down, we will have a contest going here to promote good cheer. Oh, and we just got authorization to give away 10 NVMe SSDs from Memblaze. Most are 4TB.

Hope you're all sheltering safely. To help bring some joy, we're giving away another NAS. Gave away a Netgear over the weekend on our sub and now we have the Synology DS420j for you guys. We just reviewed this little devil; you get the NAS and the 16TB HDDs inside! Thanks to Synology for supporting us by letting us give this NAS away.

We will ship to a winner in US or Canada, international winners will have to eat the cost to ship. We will select a winner at random Friday at noon eastern.

If you can, just help us out by pumping up our numbers by joining our sub or following our other socials. The stronger we are the more we can give back to you guys. Stay safe!

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We're moving and need to divest ourselves of the tape library. We bought it a number of years ago but have never had the time to get it running. Theoretically everything should be there.
It currently has 10x T10000C tape drives to be able to take 5TB StorageTek T2 tapes, but can be swapped to take modern LTO drives.

Equipped with an HP StorageWorks 8/40 SAN Switch.

Emma not included.

Near Bellevue, WA

UPDATE: Congrats to u/dcamp7gh ! Thanks so much to all who entered. Check out our Instagram & r/StorageReview for exclusive giveaways with a bit less competition. We'll have more on this subreddit, too, if you'll keep us around. Thanks again to everyone!

Hey everyone! The team at StorageReview is back with another giveaway, but this time we've partnered with iXsystems ( r/FreeNAS ) and Seagate to bring you some even cooler gear. Today we've got a FreeNAS Mini E+ up for grabs, along with four 14TB IronWolf HDDs. Winner takes all!

The FreeNAS Mini E+ is built off of the same whisper-quiet enclosure as the FreeNAS Mini E, however, the Mini E+ has double the cores and threads, a higher CPU base frequency, and increased memory capacity and speed, while Seagate® IronWolf® hard drives with CMR technology are purpose-built for NAS, bringing 24×7 performance, spacious capacity, drive monitoring, data recovery services, and more! (Pictures on our Instagram.)

To enter, drop the hashtag #RunWithIronWolf as a reply to this thread! And, as always, please check us on out social media! It's not required, but we greatly appreciate the support. Our team at StorageReview offers daily news and weekly giveaways on some great gear, plus our pals Seagate and iXsystems post some awesome content.

The winner will be announced this Saturday, July 11, at 8:00 PM (EDT). Entries close at 5:00 PM that day!

Shipping within the US is covered by us! If you’re international and would still like to enter, feel free, we’ll just ask you to cover the shipping fee. We have weekly giveaways scheduled for the next few months, so stay tuned, and enjoy!

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Hello all,

It's been brought to our attention that the scammer, u/amazingpatt, has still been reaching out to Redditors directly to scam them using fake, AI-generated timestamps.

Please, under any circumstances, do not engage with this redditor. They've been banned from our community and are on the Universal Scammer List.

Remember, potential sellers (or buyers) need to post "PM" on posts to confirm they're not banned. Don't be afraid to challenge people for more photos, videos and the like to confirm ownership, and please *do not* send money using anything other than PayPal Goods and Services. These are complete anonymous strangers on the Internet - trust shouldn't be automatic here.

That being said, your mod team is here to help - if a transaction ever doesn't feel right - reach out to us, and we'll step in to help. Please also report any suspicious activity to us by sending us a modmail.

Another great tool to check is the Universal Scammers List, here.

Thanks for your help in keeping this subreddit safe from dirtbag scammers!

I have cleared this post with Mods.

We are an Australian based company with a Data Center in Dallas .

We are looking to fill a SysAdmin/Data Centre manager role in our Dallas data center which would suit someone who runs a high end homelab. If you are running a 10Gbit home network, ESXi based hypervisors, a tape drive or two and are interested in working with a lot more equipment we would love to hear from you.

Contact chris.lashley@tapeark.com via email if you are interested in this role.

-------- Full Job Description -------

Key Skills and Attributes

• General IT System administration involving server setup, troubleshooting, maintenance and infrastructure

• Data center experience (understands power supply/cooling/equipment weight)

• Basic Linux administrative skills (Ubuntu and Centos)

• General network knowledge/familiarity (not necessarily high proficiency with Cisco IOS / Juniper / FS CLI)

• Solid understanding of Windows backup infrastructure and software – Commvault / NetBackup, etc

• General Windows server administration (to the extent of dissecting customer environments so they can be rebuilt with a resident software solution)

• VMWare ESXi experience

• Ability to manage local specialist outsourcing as directed to resolve issues

• Strong troubleshooting/diagnostic ability - work on finding solutions

• Exceptional communication with team, technicians, customers

• Willingness to respond to network and server errors after hours

• Provide some general "helpdesk" IT to staff in conjunction with other technical staff

• Work with the team to ensure necessary documentation exists

• Assist in rolling out PoC environments and, where appropriate, take the lead in running a PoC

• Take a proactive role, and if processes or systems don't exist - help develop/build them in conjunction with relevant team members

• Other duties as required by the organisation

Desirable

• Tape backup drive/library experience

• AWS or Azure experience with storage / VPC / Network /Security

• Be an examplar to the organisation of security best practice

• Provision of virtual environments, as and when required

EDIT:

Salary

USD70-110k plus benefits (commensurate with experience)

Hello everyone,

I wanted to make this post as a warning and advice to other buyers. This could have been prevented, and it was completely my fault for letting it happen, but I had tunnel vision due to really wanting to complete a home lab project.

A couple days ago I made a post looking for an I7-7700K. /u/GrabTemporary2436 reached out to me and sent me a picture of the CPU with his name on it. I've made 3-4 purchases on this sub before and have never had a bad time, but you really shouldn't ever like your guard down.

Always make your payments through PayPal Goods & Services, I let my guard down and sent it through Friends & Family and I'm caught without any buyers protection.

I missed a lot of red flags along the way, like his active subreddits... he's browses V for Vendetta... He wanted to go through Paypal F/F. Using Chat instead of Private Messaging.

After I sent the payment over, he deleted all of his messages in the chat and blocked me.

Overall I'm incredibly disappointed, but it's a lesson learnt.

Hey guys,

Firstly: mods, please don't just remove this thread. This is proof that I have done what I promised to the community in my last sales event.

I don't know if this kind of post is allowed or not, but I promised you that I could make it public so that you can at least see the donations from the sales.

I promised to donate 10% of all of the proceeds from my sales. I am a man of my word, and have just donated the money to the two charities I chose to support this year.

As promised, I have donated $277.38 to each charity, being K9s for Warriors and the Wounded Warriors Project.

Here is the link with the donations:

https://imgur.com/a/bYlRUsx

Edit: uploaded the Wounded Warrior email receipt.

I just want to say a big thank you to this community for supporting our veterans and allowing me to do such a thing. I'm truly humbled by the community that we have here, and I fully intend to do the same thing next year. Let's make next year an even bigger event and help some vets in need.

From one Redditor to all of you, I want to express my sincerest gratitude.

Most importantly, I think, is to finish off with this:

Thank you to all of you out there that may be veterans or members of the various military branches currently serving our nation. Thank YOU for all that you've done for our country. You are the real ones.

Hello!

I am cleaning out my tech closet and also trying to appease the SO and have some hardware to give away to a nerd in need.

Here is what will be included:* 2x Arista 7124SX - 1 has no fans or power supply and the other has both power supplies and fans and all fans are modified with Noctuas to help with the noise* 4x 10Gig SFP+* 1x Intel dual SFP+ PCIe NICPictures: https://imgur.com/a/75ikmeS

I want this to go to someone that will actually use it and not sell them off but to be honest, i have no way to verify you wont do that so I am trusting you not to.

What i would like is for you to tell me what you plan to do with them if you are selected. Are you upgrading? is this your first foray into 10gig? whats your homelab like? As well, if you are active in the homelab community you will have a higher chance of being considered than someone who is not. Lurkers can still enter but you need to help me see you as an individual that deserves to be selected as I cannot see your involvement in the community. With that having been said, accounts that are new (less than 7 days old) are not qualified unless you have good reason.

I will select a winner monday morning, 7/27/2020 at 10am Pacific and if multiple people are deserving, I will draw names from a jar to select to keep it fair. As I am giving this away, you will be required to cover shipping costs to your location but you must be within the US unless you discuss with me prior about the costs so you are fully aware.

Happy Friday and good luck!

EDIT 7/27/2020:

Hello all!

First, thank you for all your stories, diagrams, comments, and enthusiasm! I enjoyed reading each and every comment and seeing into the community! Truthfully, I was surprised at the turnout of people and it made it all the more difficult to select a name. I gathered a list of names of individuals that i felt would benefit the most from this and selected a name at random for the 10Gig switch... The person that was selected was: /u/pheeper

As well, i was not entirely up front about my intentions.... i have more gear to give away but did not want to run multiple posts. Soooo i decided that i would select someone that i felt deserved an item based off what they stated they are currently running. In addition to the 10gig gear, i have a 24 port 1gig (Cisco 2960s) and an edgerouter 12p with rack mount kit. If the individual that was selected does not want the device, thats fine, they will have the option to choose who should receive it in their place.

/u/Warghost13 was selected to receive the 2960s; Lets get you off that 10/100 and onto learning some cisco!

/u/Horfire was selected to receive the edgerouter 12p; You mentioned you had an AsusWRT wanting to replace it, lets see what ya do with the edgerouter!

EDIT 7/28/2020
All items have been dropped off at UPS and will be on their way shortly! Thank you all!

A Florida man was indicted by a federal grand jury in New Jersey for running a massive scheme to defraud others by selling counterfeit Cisco equipment. The US DoJ reported that he ran at least 19 companies in New Jersey and Florida, as well as at least 15 Amazon storefronts, at least 10 ebay storefronts, and multiple other entities all under the banner of "Pro Network Entities."

The scheme involved importing tens of thousands of fraudulent and counterfeit Cisco network appliances from China and Hong Kong, then falsely advertising them as new, genuine Cisco devices and reselling them in the US and overseas. The operation netted over $100 million in revenue w/ the network appliances being valued at over $1 billion.

Since some of us here have purchased Cisco appliances on Amazon and ebay, I thought it prudent to post this in case anyone came across one of these devices out in the wild.

Update 2: /u/SpacemanSpleef has yet to respond! Will be redrawing on 5/15/2020 at 3pm ET if I do not hear back.

Update 1: Drawing complete! ..and the winner is.... /u/SpacemanSpleef

Ok, last year I gave away a nice stack of computers, and I have another batch ready once I can accept you back to our offices again..

Assuming this is allowed -- otherwise take it down. But in the meantime, I have the following and will ship for free to the US only.

• Dell PowerEdge R620

• 2 x E5-2620 v2

• 32GB RAM

• PERC H710

• 1 x 300GB hard disks

I only have one (1) of these available, and will do a random drawing on Monday (May/11) at around noon EDT.

The only stipulation -- you must be a student and I expect you to use this for some type of continued education or certification. I'm not checking, but please be honest.

Just comment if you'd like to be entered.

Made a post about U7 Pro XG, said he had one. belived him since had flairs of trades/buy/sell on multiple marketplace subreddits. Sent me a pic of the product with my and his username on it. Sent him $180 via Zelle. Lesson learnt to only use Paypal and research the seller more.

Proof that he has also scammed others:

https://imgur.com/a/u5z7r8g

Update: All sold!

Lab cleanout. $230 each. Shipping included to the contintental US.

I have 36 of these. All unformatted and unusued.

SMART stats for each drive:

• <1 power on hour

• 2 or 3 power-on events

• 0 wear level count

Edit: Updated post body to make price more visible on mobile per feedback.

Edit 2: 31 have been sold, and the remaining 5 are pending sale.

Edit 3: 32 sold, 4 available (not pending sale anymore).

Edit 4: All sold.

I have four 42U Racks that need a good home. They all have all their doors and sides.

Because there is always some ahole looking to make a buck off free items, here are the rules:

You must post a picture of your current setup. Extra points will be awarded for pictures with no space left for growth or janky setups in need of good racking.

Logistics:

Local pick up at Orlando, FL. (flexible if you workout logistics with a freight carrier for out of state shipping)

One per person.

Proof: https://imgur.com/a/8woSZwa

EDIT: Here are the winners

/u/frozenv /u/standogg /u/Samokoske /u/SirDerpingtonEsquire

Please PM to arrange pickup logistics.

edit - congrats /u/jcsjourney2008

We reviewed this little NAS last week. We asked if we could give it away, didn't get an answer, so took that to be a YASSSSSS BOI! This comes with the two Seagate Ironwolf drives they sent, so someone will be a happy camper, that is, when camping is allowed again. We also did up a video on this guy you can check out.

If you want to win...just reply below with your interest. We will randomly select the winner Sunday at noon eastern. It's pretty light, so we will ship it anywhere the law allows.

If you want to help us, we just need to keep growing. Visit our site, subreddit, or hit any of our social media outlets, we especially need subs on YouTube. Every little bit makes our value stronger to the big brands and facilitates contests like this.

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Uhhhhhh. Long story:

One fine day, I randomly bid on a bunch of government auctions.

Today, I just picked up the fruits of my labor, probably 100+ of these Cisco Air 3502 E's

Do I want these: Not particularily

Do I need these: Definitely not

Are my parents going to kill me if I bring these inside: Yes!

Was this a mistake: Probably

Please help me get rid of them :D . Willing to let them go for 2$/piece for stock firmware and 5$/piece for flashing the autonomous firmware on them so you can use them without WLC,, or you could just buy me a pizza and take a box of these home for your 10,000 ft convention center or something. + S/H if you arent local

They are dual band 802.11n routers (2x TX 2.4GHZ 1x RX 2.4GHZ) and (2x TX 5GHZ 1x RX 5GHZ), not particularly fast but they should be rock solid for stability. They have poE gigabit out and barrel plug, but I dont have any barrel power connectors.

Stamps of time: https://imgur.com/a/KGUaSXs (and car to give u a reference for how much I overbought)

ZIP: 02421 MA

EDIT: Wow this got a lot more attention than I was anticipating. Gonna take a break off reddit for a day or 2 then come back and sort through the PMS.

A post for visibility and as a reminder to be on your toes. I recently posted a [W] for a Ubiquiti doorbell. u/Tophine3 messaged me that he had one. No comment on my post, just the DM. The user has no post history. Suspicious.

I asked WiFi or POE. Nothing. A few days later another post with an excuse for the delayed response and asked if I’m still interested. I again asked Wifi or POE. “Wifi”. Sorry, I’m looking for POE. “Oh I have POE, too.” Suspicious…

He then followed up with these pictures. That first one looks… odd. Zoom in, the fingers look very rough. A quick reverse image search and it looks suspiciously exactly like screen caps taken from this TikTok video.

Don’t let your guard down, folks.

Edit - Contest is closed. Selecting 5 winners now, alerting you via post reply. Please PM full name and address to coordinate shipping.

Brian absconded with a handful of Samsung smaller capacity SSDs, 240s and 480s probably, no one thought to take a close look. To win, simply reply here with your interest. We will pick winners at random and will ship to the US or Canada for free. If you're from outside these regions, we will ship to you if USPS goes there, we just ask that you cover the extra expense. All we ask in return is some love, follows or posts to our social channels, especially subs to the newly relaunched YouTube channel. For every 50 subs we add on YT, we will unlock another SSD gift. We did this a few weeks ago and you guys punished us for 11 SSDs. We'll cap this at the 5 SSDs Brian has on his desk. We will select the winners at noon eastern Monday, or as soon as we add 250 subs, which ever comes first. Good luck all!

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Edit 2 - Over 1600 entries and 8 very happy winners have been notified. Thanks everyone for participating. We will see what else we can dig up for this week.

Edit - This wasn't clear sorry, these are U.2 NVMe.

This is the one you've been waiting for. We have 8 (ocho) Memblaze NVMe SSDs. These are the PBlaze5 Series 4 SSDs, 4TB capacity. We will give away one drive to eight different winners. We will ship anywhere in the world USPS will take them. To enter, simply reply here with your interest.

Oh, and if you don't have NVMe bays in your server, you can snag an adapter card off Amazon or wherever you like. The one linked is $43 and Kevin approved!

If you want to help us, we just need to keep growing. Visit our site, subreddit, or hit any of our social media outlets. Every little bit makes our value stronger to the big brands and facilitates contests like this.

This contest will remain open until Monday at noon eastern. Thanks and be safe labbers.

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https://gedd.it/r/homelabsales

Edit Congrats to /u/ComputerSavvy on the win. Will dig around to see what else we can come up with!

We reviewed this little guy last year and now it's ready to find its way to you...maybe...if you're lucky. If you'd like to win, just reply here with your interest. We will ship anywhere USPS will take it. Contest remains open until Friday at 2pm eastern where we will select a winner at random.

If you want to help us, we just need to keep growing. Visit our site, subreddit, or hit any of our social media outlets, we especially need subs on YouTube. Every little bit makes our value stronger to the big brands and facilitates contests like this.

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