18wheeler Posted April 6, 2015 Share #1 Posted April 6, 2015 Seems that there are plenty of older servers with dual Xeon CPU on ebay. They are priced $250~$350 shipped. For example this one that has dual L5520 CPU, 16GB or ram, 12x HDD bay (6 connected) for $335 shipped. Is there reason that it is a bad idea to add my own 2~4TB hdd and install Xpenology on it? thanks! Supermicro 2U Server 12 HDD-Bay 2U Server Only the 6 left bays are wired to the board If you want to use the other 6 drive bays, you will have to add a PCI-e Raid Card X8DTN+ Motherboard 2x Intel Xeon L5520 2.26ghz 8m Cache 5.86 GT/s CPUs 8x 2gb ECC Registered Memory 2x 250gb SATA Hard Drives SIMLP-3+ IPMI Remote Access Card 2x 800w Power Supplies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Posted April 6, 2015 Share #2 Posted April 6, 2015 Well the downside (IMO) is that it's meant to be rack mounted, so is pretty long and wide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
18wheeler Posted April 7, 2015 Author Share #3 Posted April 7, 2015 It is surely big. But it will be in the basement anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
htpcdude Posted April 7, 2015 Share #4 Posted April 7, 2015 You may find that the BIOS on the Supermicro motherboards are incompatible with DSM. Search the forum for BIOS reset issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snoopy78 Posted April 8, 2015 Share #5 Posted April 8, 2015 i have 2 diff SM systems with diff behavior: 1.)SM X8SIL-F MoBo in an SM SC836 chassis, here i have the BIOS reset issue only when i use the "auto startup" feature from xpenology, my workarount here is the BIOS RTC alarm option to daily boot the system 2.)SM X9SRL-F MoBo in an D-Link DSN-3200-10 chassis, NO issue at all (auto startup works flawless) WoL i haven't tested on both systems as i'm using 10G fiber NICs, but should work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waspie Posted April 12, 2015 Share #6 Posted April 12, 2015 i use a x7dbe based server bought on ebay just like you're looking at. its been rock solid and makes a fantastic esxi host. since moving to a new house its been powered up and running 160 days until i moved it yesterday. highly recommended! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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