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guest_999 said:
Careful with such multi sata ports cards, datahoarder reddit sub has many horror stories of data loss/corruption while using such cards & that's why majority there swear by LSI HBA card flashed to IT mode. Unfortunately, unlike US, used lsi hba cards are still quite expensive here but if somebody knows someone coming from abroad then lsi hba card along with some sata breakout cables for such cards is something anyone should ask to bring here if ever planning on building a plex/storage server now or in future.
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You can get lsi cards from eBay. No custom duty at all as the Chinese seller will ship it as a product under 5usd. Just buy it from high rated seller. Will cost 3.5K~ almost tripple than m.2 thingy.
 
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guest_999 said:
Careful with such multi sata ports cards, datahoarder reddit sub has many horror stories of data loss/corruption while using such cards & that's why majority there swear by LSI HBA card flashed to IT mode. Unfortunately, unlike US, used lsi hba cards are still quite expensive here but if somebody knows someone coming from abroad then lsi hba card along with some sata breakout cables for such cards is something anyone should ask to bring here if ever planning on building a plex/storage server now or in future.
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If you don't mind paying you could possibly import them as well though not all online websites deliver to India. Also many of the cheaper/used cards have fewer ports so if you want larger port capacity or the newer higher bandwidth versions you might need to look for new. In India as far as I know the easiest to find cheaper used cards are the Dell rebranded ones.
 
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Careful with such multi sata ports cards, datahoarder reddit sub has many horror stories of data loss/corruption while using such cards & that's why majority there swear by LSI HBA card flashed to IT mode.
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That's true for the majority of cheap SATA controllers but the ASM1166 controller is considered one of the best alternatives to dedicated HBA cards, with the only major downside being it doesn't have enough PCIe bandwidth for 6 SSDs (though it shouldn't be an issue for spinning drives):

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For a more robust solution, you should be able to get a Dell H310 SAS HBA card for around 6k online or locally, and that'll work in IT mode with SAS to SATA cables.
 
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That's true for the majority of cheap SATA controllers but the ASM1166 controller is considered one of the best alternatives to dedicated HBA cards, with the only major downside being it doesn't have enough PCIe bandwidth for 6 SSDs (though it shouldn't be an issue for spinning drives):

Reddit - Dive into anything

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For a more robust solution, you should be able to get a Dell H310 SAS HBA card for around 6k online or locally, and that'll work in IT mode with SAS to SATA cables.
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If one can wait for few days then they can save few bucks as well.
I've personally ordered lsi ones but dell/hp ones would also be fine as those are just rebranded as you said.
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DELL H310 6Gbps SAS HBA FW:P20 9211-8i IT Mode ZFS FreeNAS unRAID 2* SATA Cable | eBay

We keep our promises that we will provide you with the best solution within 24 hours.
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jayanttyagi said:
If one can wait for few days then they can save few bucks as well.
I've personally ordered lsi ones but dell/hp ones would also be fine as those are just rebranded as you said.
www.ebay.com

DELL H310 6Gbps SAS HBA FW:P20 9211-8i IT Mode ZFS FreeNAS unRAID 2* SATA Cable | eBay

We keep our promises that we will provide you with the best solution within 24 hours.
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Have you received such orders from ebay recently(last few months/year) without any customs issues? Do you need to submit any ID proof for receiving such orders on ebay site or courier company/delivery person?
jayanttyagi said:
You can get lsi cards from eBay. No custom duty at all as the Chinese seller will ship it as a product under 5usd. Just buy it from high rated seller. Will cost 3.5K~ almost tripple than m.2 thingy.
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That was the standard method until govt started cracking down on such Chinese imports beginning from somewhere around 2019 & many ppl stopped ordering altogether from aliexpress & similar sites.
 
rsaeon said:
While I'm here, here is a direct link that I check daily for computer components sold by Appario under 25k, sorted high to low: https://www.amazon.in/s?me=A14CZOWI0VEHLG&rh=n:1375344031,p_36:-2500000&s=price-desc-rank

The '2500000' part of the url denotes 25k, so you can change it to 5000000 for 50k and so on. Add "&k=am4" if you're looking for AM4 motherboards or change 'am4' to whatever keyword you're looking for, I usually search for 'ddr4' and 'ssd'.
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How did you generate that link btw? For me, this no longer brings up stuff sold by Appario but includes dozens of other sellers.
 
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Have you received such orders from ebay recently(last few months/year) without any customs issues? Do you need to submit any ID proof for receiving such orders on ebay site or courier company/delivery person?

That was the standard method until govt started cracking down on such Chinese imports beginning from somewhere around 2019 & many ppl stopped ordering altogether from aliexpress & similar sites.
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Yes, I ordered one recently also(last month). It was registered post so got delivered by India Post. It's kind of gamble as its upto custom official to determine correct price. But seller will ship it under 10usd price on label.
 
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How did you generate that link btw? For me, this no longer brings up stuff sold by Appario but includes dozens of other sellers.
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I started removing parts of the url until I had the shortest url with the products that I wanted to see. Here's the basic url for all products sold by Appario:

https://www.amazon.in/s?me=A14CZOWI0VEHLG

I'm assuming 'me' is merchant.

Same products, sorted by price:

https://www.amazon.in/s?me=A14CZOWI0VEHLG&s=price-asc-rank

https://www.amazon.in/s?me=A14CZOWI0VEHLG&s=price-desc-rank

Now add price filters, here it's 4k to 5k (across all categories):

https://www.amazon.in/s?me=A14CZOWI0VEHLG&s=price-asc-rank&rh=p_36:400000-500000

https://www.amazon.in/s?me=A14CZOWI0VEHLG&s=price-desc-rank&rh=p_36:400000-500000

You can remove one of the numbers if you want only say 4k and up, but leave the hyphen in:

https://www.amazon.in/s?me=A14CZOWI0VEHLG&s=price-asc-rank&rh=p_36:400000-

Or 5k and down:

https://www.amazon.in/s?me=A14CZOWI0VEHLG&s=price-desc-rank&rh=p_36:-500000

The price in the url includes paisa.

For category, here's the cleaned up web url for Tablets:

https://www.amazon.in/s?rh=n:976419031,n:1375458031

I'm assuming 'n' is node, so the first node is Electronics, and the second is Tablets. We can insert the more specific one we need after the price (separated by a comma):

https://www.amazon.in/s?me=A14CZOWI0VEHLG&s=price-desc-rank&rh=p_36:-900000,n:1375458031

That's for tablets under 9k, sorted high to low.

Or, instead of category, you could use a search term by adding '&k=search+term' at the end of the url:

https://www.amazon.in/s?me=A14CZOWI0VEHLG&s=price-desc-rank&rh=p_36:-900000&k=samsung

Similarly, here are air fryers sold by RetailEZ under 5k:

https://www.amazon.in/s?me=AXOGFIT0PZZ7G&s=price-desc-rank&rh=p_36:-500000,n:26953501031

If you're a normal person then html entities are difficult to read, so something like https://www.urldecoder.org/ can help make urls easier to parse and read.

Once you have your url, you can use scripting to automate coupon hunting. For example, there are extensions that run javascript on page load, use that to hide all search results that don't have coupons. You could even use system-wide scripting to go through page by page and send you screenshots over telegram of any new coupons that show up in the search results (one of the reasons why I still use a 2012 macbook).

I blame my slickdeals years for this obsession.
 
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I started removing parts of the url until I had the shortest url with the products that I wanted to see. Here's the basic url for all products sold by Appario:

https://www.amazon.in/s?me=A14CZOWI0VEHLG

I'm assuming 'me' is merchant.

Same products, sorted by price:

https://www.amazon.in/s?me=A14CZOWI0VEHLG&s=price-asc-rank

https://www.amazon.in/s?me=A14CZOWI0VEHLG&s=price-desc-rank

Now add price filters, here it's 4k to 5k (across all categories):

https://www.amazon.in/s?me=A14CZOWI0VEHLG&s=price-asc-rank&rh=p_36:400000-500000

https://www.amazon.in/s?me=A14CZOWI0VEHLG&s=price-desc-rank&rh=p_36:400000-500000

You can remove one of the numbers if you want only say 4k and up, but leave the hyphen in:

https://www.amazon.in/s?me=A14CZOWI0VEHLG&s=price-asc-rank&rh=p_36:400000-

Or 5k and down:

https://www.amazon.in/s?me=A14CZOWI0VEHLG&s=price-desc-rank&rh=p_36:-500000

The price in the url includes paisa.

For category, here's the cleaned up web url for Tablets:

https://www.amazon.in/s?rh=n:976419031,n:1375458031

I'm assuming 'n' is node, so the first node is Electronics, and the second is Tablets. We can insert the more specific one we need after the price (separated by a comma):

https://www.amazon.in/s?me=A14CZOWI0VEHLG&s=price-desc-rank&rh=p_36:-900000,n:1375458031

That's for tablets under 9k, sorted high to low.

Or, instead of category, you could use a search term by adding '&k=search+term' at the end of the url:

https://www.amazon.in/s?me=A14CZOWI0VEHLG&s=price-desc-rank&rh=p_36:-900000&k=samsung

Similarly, here are air fryers sold by RetailEZ under 5k:

https://www.amazon.in/s?me=AXOGFIT0PZZ7G&s=price-desc-rank&rh=p_36:-500000,n:26953501031

If you're a normal person then html entities are difficult to read, so something like https://www.urldecoder.org/ can help make urls easier to parse and read.

Once you have your url, you can use scripting to automate coupon hunting. For example, there are extensions that run javascript on page load, use that to hide all search results that don't have coupons. You could even use system-wide scripting to go through page by page and send you screenshots over telegram of any new coupons that show up in the search results (one of the reasons why I still use a 2012 macbook).

I blame my slickdeals years for this obsession.
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Whoa this needs to be stickied into its own thread! The search bar in the site sucks, shows more irrelevant results than the actual product you're looking for
 
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I started removing parts of the url until I had the shortest url with the products that I wanted to see. Here's the basic url for all products sold by Appario:

https://www.amazon.in/s?me=A14CZOWI0VEHLG

I'm assuming 'me' is merchant.

Same products, sorted by price:

https://www.amazon.in/s?me=A14CZOWI0VEHLG&s=price-asc-rank

https://www.amazon.in/s?me=A14CZOWI0VEHLG&s=price-desc-rank

Now add price filters, here it's 4k to 5k (across all categories):

https://www.amazon.in/s?me=A14CZOWI0VEHLG&s=price-asc-rank&rh=p_36:400000-500000

https://www.amazon.in/s?me=A14CZOWI0VEHLG&s=price-desc-rank&rh=p_36:400000-500000

You can remove one of the numbers if you want only say 4k and up, but leave the hyphen in:

https://www.amazon.in/s?me=A14CZOWI0VEHLG&s=price-asc-rank&rh=p_36:400000-

Or 5k and down:

https://www.amazon.in/s?me=A14CZOWI0VEHLG&s=price-desc-rank&rh=p_36:-500000

The price in the url includes paisa.

For category, here's the cleaned up web url for Tablets:

https://www.amazon.in/s?rh=n:976419031,n:1375458031

I'm assuming 'n' is node, so the first node is Electronics, and the second is Tablets. We can insert the more specific one we need after the price (separated by a comma):

https://www.amazon.in/s?me=A14CZOWI0VEHLG&s=price-desc-rank&rh=p_36:-900000,n:1375458031

That's for tablets under 9k, sorted high to low.

Or, instead of category, you could use a search term by adding '&k=search+term' at the end of the url:

https://www.amazon.in/s?me=A14CZOWI0VEHLG&s=price-desc-rank&rh=p_36:-900000&k=samsung

Similarly, here are air fryers sold by RetailEZ under 5k:

https://www.amazon.in/s?me=AXOGFIT0PZZ7G&s=price-desc-rank&rh=p_36:-500000,n:26953501031

If you're a normal person then html entities are difficult to read, so something like https://www.urldecoder.org/ can help make urls easier to parse and read.

Once you have your url, you can use scripting to automate coupon hunting. For example, there are extensions that run javascript on page load, use that to hide all search results that don't have coupons. You could even use system-wide scripting to go through page by page and send you screenshots over telegram of any new coupons that show up in the search results (one of the reasons why I still use a 2012 macbook).

I blame my slickdeals years for this obsession.
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Make a YouTube tutorial of all this end to end bro!
 
PCIE 3.0 16x High Speed Flexible Extender Riser Cable Card Extension Port Adapter 300mm (90 Degree Angle Black, 30 CM) MSI P/N: K1C-1164004-V03
https://amzn.eu/d/46iUq7X

I needed a riser cable for my new Lian Li 216.. the original Li Lian is outrageously priced at 5-6K.. so was looking at alternatives.. and came across this on Amazon. After doing some research, I found that this is an MSI OEM part...

Since it was returnable... I ordered it. To my surprise not only did it fit perfectly... I did not see any drop in performance even after repetitive 3D mark testing.

the return period is still open... is there anything else I should be testing for?
 
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Antec HCG-1000-EXTREME SMPS - 1000 Watt 80 Plus Gold Certification Fully Modular PSU with Active PFC

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It's ~7500 after coupon for a 1000W power supply, before any card discounts.
 
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Antec HCG-1000-EXTREME SMPS - 1000 Watt 80 Plus Gold Certification Fully Modular PSU with Active PFC

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It's ~7500 after coupon for a 1000W power supply, before any card discounts.
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See this reddit thread:

Antec denying warranty on HCG 850W Gold burnt cable

Seems like antec psu is not so good for high loads(aka for ppl who actually need 800w+ like miners at that time) but as a general psu with load never even crossing 600w it does look fine for this price(that NZXT C750 for 5400 is still the best deal for psu till date on amazon/fk in my opinion).
 
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