Did they update your tracking after you paid? I had to call them up before mine got updated
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Same here, was just sat doing nothing, I had to get in touch. Seemed a stupid way of doing things.
I don't think DHL are quite on the ball. I've said previously that I never knew about the customs charge until the delivery driver knocked on the door to say it needed to be paid. To be fair to him, he did come back later that day once I'd paid the charge.
I meant UPS not DHL. Too may TLAs about!!This was UPS so they all seem as bad as each other
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Could I ask where did you source the RAM from? I don't see anywhere in the UK I could get SODIMM ECC DDR5 for this cheap (shop_name is 180 quid for 32gb, for example). Is this the full side-band ECC?
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It’s gone up in price slightly since I bought it the massive America company that can’t be named. It’s only in the detailed description of the memory that ECC is mentioned btw.
I’ve no idea of the ins and outs of ECC memory so can’t answer your query.
From what I can see, the Lexar sticks aren't full ECC, they just have the 'on-die' ECC that all DDR5 modules have. Cheapest option I saw for the real stuff was from Kingston and even that is almost £350 just for 64GB, so I gave it a pass for now
Fair enough. It wasn't something I was looking out for or thought I needed. I did think it was a tad cheap for what it was offering
Unraid here. I’ve been using it for seven or eight years across three or four server builds and it was yet another easy transfer across to the Aoostar
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Hi all,
I just received mine and transferred unraid over - no problems there.
My initial observation is it seems to be using quite a bit of power, GPU reporting 16-36W and nothing is using it, though I don't know whether that's accurate, the draw at the socket is around 60W.
Wondering if anyone else is seeing this?
Matt
I just received mine and transferred unraid over - no problems there.
My initial observation is it seems to be using quite a bit of power, GPU reporting 16-36W and nothing is using it, though I don't know whether that's accurate, the draw at the socket is around 60W.
Wondering if anyone else is seeing this?
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wow that is high. i dont have a device but instead have a full tower pc with approx 12 drives(7 hdd, 5 nvme) inside it running truenas and mine idles at 80w all things considering its a desktop 5600 AMD cpu.
From the NAS Compares review:
18W (idle, no drives), 73–89W peak loaded
How many drives and how busy is it? I don't think 60W is unreasonably high.
2 drives. 2 nvmes. At idle with drives spun down it dropped down to 30-40w. I noticed the GPU stats plugin is reporting the GPU at around 20w idle, perhaps the drivers aren't fully optimised for standby. If I get time I might test with other os installed and see if it's any different. Won't be this weekend though.
You have a GPU plugged in to the Aoostar? That’ll make a big difference. I have four HDD, three NVMEs and two external SSDs on my Aoostar. It’s plugged into a UPS which also has a router and switch attached to it. The UPS report power usage between 63W and 77W.