18wheeler Posted April 6, 2015 #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
Rusty Posted April 6, 2015 #2 Posted April 6, 2015 Well the downside (IMO) is that it's meant to be rack mounted, so is pretty long and wide.
18wheeler Posted April 7, 2015 Author #3 Posted April 7, 2015 It is surely big. But it will be in the basement anyway.
htpcdude Posted April 7, 2015 #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.
snoopy78 Posted April 8, 2015 #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
waspie Posted April 12, 2015 #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!
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