brassicGamer wrote:You know when you make an initial bid on something, then chuck in a maximum bid straight away, then lose interest in the thing you're bidding on, and hope someone else will beat your max bid but no one does?
Ended up with a Phenom II X6 1055T when what I actually wanted was a Phenom X4 955 Black Edition. As a result I might end up with both. Would make an interesting benchmarking exercise because I have read that the extra 2 cores have a very limited effect on anything other than highly multi-threaded games. I'd be interested to see what Quadfire could achieve on GTA V with no CPU bottleneck because old tests show little or no improvement with the 4th card. Reckon I'll end up selling the X6 immediately though, before my wife kills me.
FYI for the future, possibly now.. just use this: http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?RetractBidShow retract your bid as long as it's before 24 hours. Completely ignore all of the words and just do it, it's always okay to retract your bids at any time and nothing will harm your account. Just pick "entered wrong amount" and forget about it. I do it all the time, nothing happens.
Bought four of these myself:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?I … N82E16822136313
Actually I got em from over here on ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/172490860101
They're inside these NetApp SAS trays but they're still WD black enterprise drives. Can clearly see it in one of the photos. And one of the IBM stickers has the WD Part # on it. So double definitely sure what it is. Fairly cheap too. Seller accepted my best offer for I think $22 each, paid $113.40 including shipping for all 4 to Texas. Saved -$116.16 off the new price in the end.
Starting a second file server. Going with 4 of these initially with the plan to upgrade to maximum 7 or 8 later. Raid-5 on a LSI MegaRaid PCIE hardware SAS card with BBU. Using an Intel server board and a core2duo @ I think 3.33 Ghz. Need to upgrade both it and my main file server computer with Intel Pro PCIE NIC's soon so I can do teaming for failover protection.
Just have to disassemble these NetApp trays the drives will come in and tear em apart, and then they'll be your normal sata drives inside ready to be used in any computer.