fn369
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Duly noted, thank you.FreeNAS has supported mirrored boot devices since the 9.3 release. If you're using USB sticks as boot devices, mirroring them is highly recommended, as they're notoriously unreliable. SSDs and DOMs are much more reliable, so there's less incentive to mirror them. Also, reinstallation is simply a matter of doing a clean install and uploading a saved copy of your config file, so the consequences of a failed boot device are minimal. Mirrored DOMs are certainly fine, but probably not necessary.
I'll see, though I'm not looking as much now that I've found one (though I did get an email a couple of weeks ago from the folks I bought mine from--if I get another I'll let you know). I think my ebay search when I found mine was simply "supermicro 4u". My server came with E5-2660s, which I upgraded to E5-2670s for no other reason than that the 2670s were too cheap to pass up, and a RAID card that I sold to recoup some of my cost. I'll warn you that energy-efficiency isn't its strong suit--it idles at over 300 watts, and burns 400-450 most of the time.
Don't worry. I got the impression you were still active in eBay, and I'm happy to do some searching. Certainly the power consumption figures are much higher than for my proposed E5-1650, but if I get an incredible deal perhaps it's worth it!