That's fairly impressive, considering you'd pay that for a 6 port 2.5Gb unmanaged switch not very long ago. I've been looking at moving the home network to 2.5Gb. Only one device at present, but the NAS has a cheap pcie card for it and the second PC is due an upgrade from Ivy Bridge when Win10 support ends.
I mean I say well known, but I've found some very long threads on the net about them, which is a slight improvement then what I found before. Sadly I can't find any 6 port ones reviewed in a price range I'm happy with, so it's a 4 port model. A lot of people seem have it run a hypervisor and then run opnsense/pfsense on top, but not sure there's anything for me to gain by doing that. As it's x86 if I decide I don't want it as my router/firewall then it's got enough grunt that it will work as small pc quite nicely. 
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I have a Geekom IT11 mini PC.
Just had an internal expansion drive delivered, but it won't fit the slot, the drive is 15mm thick. I've just ordered an external enclosure for a tenner, so I can use it as an external disc. A bugger, but my fault.
Can anyone tell me which drive I should order for the IT11, it needs to be 9.5mm thick? I think that the max is 2Tb, which is a bugger, because the 15mm drive was 5Tb.
I should have done some more research before ordering. (Burned all the Amazon vouchers I got for birthday and Christmas buying it
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I scratched the edge trying to get to get it under the bar at the top of the bay. I have a second cheapie mini machine that I use in bed with a portable monitor, I can use it as an external for that.Until you posted I was only vaguely aware this was much of an issue. However their site says it's a 7mm drive height, which seems to be the size of the first 3 SSDs I looked at. Are you trying to fit a mechanical hard drive?
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Edit. Amazon normally have a pretty spot on returns policy, can't you send it back?
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It did, thank you.
I got a Lenovo ThinkCentre thing to run my home automation - similar price point, but yours seems a bit more bang for the buck. And I wouldn't have needed all those Ethernet ports anyway
Edited to add. I haven't done that for years. You used to have to do it every time you installed a drive.
I got a Lenovo ThinkCentre thing to run my home automation - similar price point, but yours seems a bit more bang for the buck. And I wouldn't have needed all those Ethernet ports anyway
If you're going to use it as a router, can you just bung DD-WRT on it?
I spotted a job advert today that I really want. My new job is pretty nice, but I don't feel stretched technically at all. I've hardly had to do any proper troubleshooting (how the horror fades) and despite them listing server qualifications as desirable, the closest I get to managing a server is organising AD. Forget about access to vSphere or any of the networking stuff. My thinking had been to stick out and apply internally for something higher. Except a role has just come up today as a trainee L3/sysadmin, same salary as I'm on, but move up to the next band after a year. I'd half thought I might have to jump trusts to do this, but I don't really want to as this job is on my doorstep. Anyway some of things they've listed as desirable is are Windows Server Certs and VMWare Certs. I know none of the current L3 team actually have these and I know nobody else eligible to apply has any experience working with vSphere. But I have only been here 3 months.
So I've booked a VCTA exam in a week and halves time. I know it's just one of those "describe" type exams, but there's a lot to cover and so looks like I'm going to quite busy till then.
See I got a little sucker/blower from Amazon, it's not as good as a duster, but just about does the job and is a lot cheaper to run then buying air dusters, so was curious and clicked your link. Jesus. No wonder it's better then an air duster at that price. The build/disposable team at work have one of those and they certainly are impressive bits of kit. Don't think I can justify one though.
