Makeroflostsouls
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If you want just a nice case with 12 hot swaps and quiet this might be what you want.. Thinking about picking one.. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147165
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I just messaged them asking about this. I would love a chassis only so i can transfer my other server to this case and have two matching ones. thanks for the idea!
The first chassis worked so well with the silent mods that i cant wait to get another one! these backplanes and sleds are cats ass!
Keep in mind you will need the following:
Case Breakout Cable for power switch/hdd led/net/etc. (Supermicro CBL-0068L 11.81 inch 16pin Front Panel Split Cable) http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=CA-CBL068L
Drive screws for sleds (Supermicro MCP-410-00005-0N Screw Bag (100PCS)) http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=CA-MCP45ON
If you want just a nice case with 12 hot swaps and quiet this might be what you want.. Thinking about picking one.. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147165
only issue i have with this is the fact that its 12 bux to ship screws and some 22ga wire...
ill make it work one way or another. its not a rush build . but thanks for the links
I was wondering, if before I buy this and spend a bit modding it to make it a little quieter and less power hungry, is there something similar with less bays?
No way I would need 24x bays, Maybe 10-12x bays would do fine for me. Someone mentioned DL320s but those are pretty damn loud as well, and I would take this just to be able to quiet it down.
Nothing too special about the data. Just going to have RAID6 on 10 drives maybe. Currently I use 2x RAID5 arrays with 4TB disks using Sans Digital USB3.0 enclosures which are becoming more trouble than they're worth. Throughput isn't much of an issue, as long as it can muster 300MB/s read I'll be fine.
Open for any suggestions, thanks!
Yeh, but I wasn't just looking for case, was trying to get a full server, but with less bays
Where are you located? I'll trade you one of these for a 743 ( 8 drives ) or a 933 ( 15 drives ) case.
Problem is unless you are local ( florida ) the shipping will kill that idea.
the HP micro servers are great. I recently "downgraded" my 15 bay unRAID server to this and I couldn't be happier. Of course, if you're rockin with 24TB or more then you're simply going to need more bays.
http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=11585.0
I replaced both back wall fans with quiet fans from local MicroCenter (@ $3 ea.)
removed the fan wall and put 3 120mm fans from MC @ 10ea.
so $6 for back wall, $30 for fan wall. total $36.
the only issue I see with that is that you would need to remove both the fan wall and the supporting cable management boot under it. for 140mm to work.and the cables are than run under the fans directly.
can it be you have a deeper case?
I put a 140mm fan on the bracket and it was sticking out form the top.
that is why I went back to 120mm. I want to keep the bracket for cable management.
Nice! Did you happen to post photos at all? I'm really keen to see how easy/advisable removing the wall fans is but I didn't see any photos on your Lime thread.
Just got my QC server in today, sadly they did not included the screws I requested (unless i'm blind). Will install WHS2011 or Essentials tonight. Then head to microcenter for fan controller, hard drives, and odds and ends.
can anyone confirm this setup works with WS2012E... I have been debating to get this but have not seen confirmation of WSE support... or I missed it somewhere... thank you
Like I said, I got WHS2011 to install with no issues.
WS2012e failed multiple times (could be source I used MSDN)
WS2012Stand. installed no problems and is what I'm sticking with. Running to Microcenter today for 2 HSF for my CPU upgrade, Fan wall Downgrade, and PSU downgrade.
Anyone recommend a good fan controller from Microcenter, that I could pick up instead of replacing fan wall and psu's?
I can not recommend fan controller as I do not use them.
but the thing is you do the fan wall and PSU mods because of the noise, and I do not think you can control noise from PSU(and in mine experience the most noise on this system is from the PSU) on this servers with a fan controller.
plus you can mitigate most of the noise if you use this system for home server by replacing the fans first and unplugging one of the PSUs.
I am building an VM server on one of this chassis, and currently do not have a spare PSU.
so I removed ALL the 80mm fans.
and replaced them with 2x80mm quiet on from MicroCenter
and 3x120mm you can see some details here (http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=28671.0)
the noise went down drastically, but since I still running the stock PSU it still loud.
my plan is, as soon as I get my current system decommissioned to use the PSU in this setup for total quiet system..
Just got one QC unit and an extra processor in ebay. Does anybody know about compatible memory for this server at sensible prices?
yup... that IS cheap! Do you have any pointers or was it a one time offer?
Ram: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190965959059i actually purchased one today. Didn't know they have these for so cheap. I wonder how they manage to keep getting these.
I'm planning to fill them with 3TB drives, maybe use snapraid or flexraid running ubuntu.
now for some ram, these servers takes DDR2 ECC memory, know any good ones? Mines comes with 4x2 DDR2, would like to replace them with some bigger modules.