CombatChrisNC
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Here's the thing, my friend was awesome enough to donate a server he was able to lay his hands on - an IBM x3550 M2. It's got a single quad-core xeon X5570 and 8x 8GB 10600 ECC DDR3.
It also comes with the ServeRAID card which I think I can flash to work as a JBOD. What I'm looking for is a mobo which is ATX or E-ATX, or very similar, that I can throw into the full-tower chassis which I also already have. I can't use the existing chassis and motherboard because it will only accept 6x 2.5" drives and I've got 14 1TB drives waiting to get set up with FreeNAS.
I want to be able to re-use the CPU and as much of the RAM as possible.
I want to be able to put it into my current chassis.
I don't want to pay ~$400 for some new-in-box server motherboard, so I've been coming eBay for something used which will fit the bill. Pickings are slim, but I hope that's partly because I don't know exactly what part number fits the bill for this build.
Thanks, all!
It also comes with the ServeRAID card which I think I can flash to work as a JBOD. What I'm looking for is a mobo which is ATX or E-ATX, or very similar, that I can throw into the full-tower chassis which I also already have. I can't use the existing chassis and motherboard because it will only accept 6x 2.5" drives and I've got 14 1TB drives waiting to get set up with FreeNAS.
I want to be able to re-use the CPU and as much of the RAM as possible.
I want to be able to put it into my current chassis.
I don't want to pay ~$400 for some new-in-box server motherboard, so I've been coming eBay for something used which will fit the bill. Pickings are slim, but I hope that's partly because I don't know exactly what part number fits the bill for this build.
Thanks, all!