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I have an Acer Swift 3 (about 5 years old) and the battery seems to be showing issues (not charging fully, suddenly discharging very quickly). Thus, looking to replace the battery. Which sites do you recommend to buy replacement laptop batteries? I have seen the ones below online in India, but...

Where can one buy reliable (and non-expensive) DDR3 ECC RAM and LSI 9211 HBA? This is for a home server. DDR3 ECC RAM: Should preferably be Samsung M393B2G70DB0-YK0 16GB DDR3 1600 ECC Registered 1.35V DRx4 Bare as I already have 2 of these. Ideally looking for 4 more of these. LSI 9211: To...

Am looking to set up a Proxmox system at home with the Proxmox OS on mirrored SATA SSDs using ZFS (cannot use NVMe). Along with the Proxmox OS, I also intend to use these SSDs for host images for VMs and such (storage will be on different devices) - as such looking for a 480GB/500GB SSD. I have...

Does anyone have experience in buying components off Amazon (USA) or Ebay (USA/China/Hong Kong)? I am looking to buy a CPU which, at the moment, I can only find abroad at the price point I am willing to pay. However, I do not know how to gauge the reliability of these sellers on Amazon USA and...

An avid technology enthusiast, who's finally decided to get his hands dirty and build his own hardware at home. Currently this is a linux server and FreeNAS, but intend to grow this into wider and more exciting things over time (as long as I can keep making time for this). My personal...

I'm building a home server for the first time which would (initially) also have a FreeNAS setup running within. I'm looking for a good case for this, and not getting too far with my research Needs: - As it's housing a server/FreeNAS, it needs to run 24x7. Thus reliability of the box and all...

I've decided to take the plunge and build myself a server. I've done some research, ordered a few parts, and need some help with the pending parts, configuration, and setup. (Though in this thread I'd like to focus just on getting the complete hardware defined. The setup I'll post in another...