The best Serial Adapters: Reddit reviews

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This is the one I bought: https://www.amazon.com/SilverStone-Technology-Wireless-Interface-ES02-USB/dp/B01MQUANS8/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=remote+pc+power&qid=1619135039&sr=8-3

I believe Silverstone makes a PCIe version as well

You could simplify this by using a ready made solution like This kit from silver stone and modifying it for you button.

The GPU is quite old and slow, it will not perform well in most modern games. (Maybe some at 720p).

However, it's still a great price, that 2nd gen(?) i5 + overclockable motherboard alone are worth more than $75. I'd suggest upgrading the GPU to something like an RX 570 which will turn this into a solid 1080p high settings gaming PC.

EDIT: BTW, that M.2 Crucial SSD is not directly compatible with this system, you would need to also purchase a PCIe Adapter card. Alternatively you could return it for the 2.5" model which is the same speed and similar price.

As others have said, if you have equipment to utilize it, a sound card might be nice.

You could potentially buy a card that lets you turn your computer on remotely.

> nand slot

> nand card

These are nice names

Yes there are adaptors for M.2 expansion, they vary in options but usually you will be fine with basic ones like this.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075ZMPKW6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Just get the $14 pci card from Amazon. It works perfectly. They have dual ones for like $50.

Personally I’d boot Mac OS from NVME and run windows on an SSD.

I bought 4 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JJTVGZM to add 4 NVMe drives to an r720 without any issues. I didn't try booting from them but they worked on the host OS as well as VMs using PCIe passthrough.

This consumes about as much power as the NUCs, but should cost slightly less, and it has internal room for a 3.5" drive or two.

HP ProDesk 400 for $110 on eBay. Offer the seller $90. You’ll need an HDMI dummy plug to enable hardware transcoding. You’ll need to install your own SSD. You can use a SATA SSD, or if you’d like extra speed for your metadata, you can get a PCI-E to NVME adapter, and use an NVME SSD. Windows would cost extra, if you choose to go that route. Linux is free, but you pay by learning a bit. FreeNas is cool too, but I'm not sure about setting it up with individual drives.

you will need something like this or this.. you can turn on the pc with a remote..

I bought one weeks ago and the coupon didn't work but $50 was still cheap to me. Am using it now with an adapter from Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01798WOJ0/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)

Even if the mobo doesn't have one built in you can add one, all you need is an extra 4-16X slot which 99% of mobos will have. using a card like this.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JJTVGZM/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_EZY52K3DJSGNQCPM75MK

That's a bummer. Most usb2serial adapters have enough juice. I've flashed literally hundreds of ESP devices and never haf a voltage related failure. These work well and are dirt cheap.

I only know of the Asus and Gigabyte quad cards, but they are hard to find for a reasonable price. I've had good luck with single and dual cards on amazon like this one

Rather than "sell" them, you could keep one for your primary drive and trade the others for a 6-8TB storage drive.

Might feel a bit less "guilty" that way. 🤷‍♂️

Or if you'd rather keep them all: Most any motherboard will only support 2 drives with your CPU. You can add a PCIe to dual m.2 adapter card for the other two. Then, just combine them into a spanned volume in Windows.

I got 7 PCIe to NVME adapters and they all work no problem. They are cheap chinese garbage ones from amazon. So you shouldn't have an issue. Your motherboard can run 2 NVME's already so just add 2 PCIE adapters.

This is the one I have for example. Note the second slot is SATA nvme so unused.

https://amazon.com/Adapter-advanced-solution-Controller-Expansion/dp/B07JKH5VTL/

PCIe is backwards-compatible, so any m.2-NVMe-to-PCIe adapter like this will technically work.

However, the PCIe bandwidth will be limited to the lowest generation supported, which in this case means that you will halve the theoretical max bandwidth (~3.9GB/s to ~1.85GB/s).

That motherboard only has a single M.2 interface.

If you want to use both drives at the same time, you'll need a PCIe card designed to adapt to additional M.2 interfaces. Something like this would work:

https://www.amazon.com/YATENG-Controller-Expansion-Card-Support-Converter/dp/B07JJTVGZM/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=M.2+Adapter&qid=1610399064&sr=8-4

What motherboard is this? That's a bit unusual these days. You can of course use one of these adapters if you have a free PCIE slot.

Should I grab a HDMI to Display Port cable? Probably not a Display Port to Display Port I'm guessing.

one of the reviews on amazon said the monitor can get seriously bright and so he keeps it at 60% and the Contrast to 75%. Also had it Overclocked to 155hrtz with Freesync on. Also had saturation set at 63 for all color values. Do you encounter any issues at those settings?

I sprang for some breadboard jumper wires, so that's made things somewhat easier. I'm also working with this USB to TFDI Adapter:

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IJXZQ7C/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

As with your setup, the instructions I'm following also mentioned TX to RX, RX to TX, so I've done that. But here's a question: the TFDI Adapter had those pins jumpered. You can see it in that image on Amazon. That seemed wrong to me, so on my next attempt I was going to remove the jumper. Any thoughts on that?

Pro Mini is even smaller and cheaper. It doesn't have built in USB so you need a USB to TTL Serial adapter to program it.

something like this should get the job done, some mobos you might have to look around to get it to recognize a pcie storage device, should be pretty straight forward https://www.amazon.com/YATENG-Controller-Expansion-Card-Support-Converter/dp/B07JJTVGZM/ref=sr_1_3?crid=YTNMOA1NCPZY&dchild=1&keywords=m.2+pcie+adapter&qid=1595821027&sprefix=m.2+pcie+%2Caps%2C168&sr=8-3

The Ftdi serial converts are like $6 from amazon

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IJXZQ7C/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_D.wuEbT2TD1DV

Or like $1 if you can wait for it from over seas

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F283610311245

Otherwise I’d be glad to take it off your hands. Last time I looked the feit bulbs from Costco were not compatible with tasmota. But I’m game to mess around with one if you want to send it to me.

I managed to communicate with the DexDrive on my Windows 10 machine. I'm using this USB to Serial Adapter(https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00425S1H8/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1), and the software named Dexter. I also have the original DexDrive software just in case. If you have not found Dexter I can send it over. Hope it helps.

https://www.amazon.com/SilverStone-Technology-Wireless-Interface-ES02-USB/dp/B01MQUANS8

This is what I use. It plugs into a USB 2.0 header for power (there is also a PCIe x1 version if you don't have a free USB 2.0 header, though I've never used this version), and then a cable runs from the device to the front panel header power switch, and it has a y-cable so you can retain the case power switch as well.

The battery life of the remote is not great, lasting about 4 months or so on a battery, but it works reliably from across the room, which is what I needed. The batteries are just standard CR2032 lithium cells (it uses 1), so it's the same as a CMOS battery for convenience, at least.

It looks like your motherboard only has one M2 SSD slot. There are M2-PCIE adapters available, but I've never used one, this may be an option for you.

I'd suggest returning the M2 SSD and getting a SATA SSD instead, you do have 4 SATA ports on your mobo.

I have used one similar to this for the ESP32-CAM.

It has a jumper to switch between 5V and 3.3V levels and has RTS and DTR outputs to automatically boot to flash mode.

1. No, don't run them in RAID 0, it just introduces more problems than it solves. And it is actually detrimental to performance in every respect except sequential reads/writes (the least important factor for storage performance)

2. A PC from 2014 will be pretty dubious in NVMe support. Assuming it is Haswell (Intel 4th gen), it should have native support for recognizing and booting NVMe drives, assuming you have the BIOS updated. If it is an older Sandybridge/Ivy Bridge platform (2nd/3rd gen) there are some hacky ways to get NVMe to work, but I honestly wouldn't recommend them. For anything older than that, don't even bother with NVMe.

3. If you are on 4th gen or newer and your motherboard does not have any NVMe slots, then all you really need are some of these cheap passive adaptors: https://www.amazon.com/M-2-Adapter-Aluminum-Heatsink-Solution/dp/B07JJTVGZM/

You’re not wrong. I had a similar issue with an Ubuntu machine that was booting up from one of those nVME expansion bays (here)[https://www.amazon.com/SilverStone-Technology-SST-ECM20-Adapter-ECM20/dp/B01798WOJ0/ref=asc_df_B01798WOJ0] My PC would randomly freeze because that peripheral went to sleep and I modified something in /etc/default/grub to make it stop but I can’t find it anymore