zis8snbt4p
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- Nov 15, 2020
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Hi all,
I have changed my mind a million times about what hardware to get for my first FreeNAS system and I have been convinced by the resident grinch to start with older hardware such as Xeon E5-26xx v2 and I have found this which I will probably kit with dual Xeon E5-2650 v2's which come at 35 pounds each.
Now this is a pretty nice price for the motherboard, but the chassis does not meet my requirements as it is very small ( I would like to house 6 HDD's and a couple of SSD's) and 1U will potentially be too noisy for my living room where the server will reside.
The problem is then that the aforementioned motherboard is EE-ATX and finding a cheap case for it is not easy.
Do you think this is a good idea? Or should I find a motherboard that is at max E-ATX for which there are a multitude of options for the case.
On another note, provided the chassis comes with a Supermicro PSU, are these of good quality? Or should I replace this as well with a Seasonic one?
Cheers
I have changed my mind a million times about what hardware to get for my first FreeNAS system and I have been convinced by the resident grinch to start with older hardware such as Xeon E5-26xx v2 and I have found this which I will probably kit with dual Xeon E5-2650 v2's which come at 35 pounds each.
Now this is a pretty nice price for the motherboard, but the chassis does not meet my requirements as it is very small ( I would like to house 6 HDD's and a couple of SSD's) and 1U will potentially be too noisy for my living room where the server will reside.
The problem is then that the aforementioned motherboard is EE-ATX and finding a cheap case for it is not easy.
Do you think this is a good idea? Or should I find a motherboard that is at max E-ATX for which there are a multitude of options for the case.
On another note, provided the chassis comes with a Supermicro PSU, are these of good quality? Or should I replace this as well with a Seasonic one?
Cheers