might stop by there today, fi they are still that cheap might grab another 2. I also ended up grabbing a pair of 3tb WD NAS HDs from Frys the other day (they were on sale for $93).
and if I do decided to upgrade to the supermicro, I know it's the recommended RAM for that) I ended up biting the bullet and grabbing all 32gb that my board supports. Since the price had dropped, and the memory should work fine on my current Dell Poweredge T20 stock motherboard. The ECC memory ( CT2KIT102472BD160B) that I was gonna purchase for the Supermicro motherboard had dropped from $125 for 2 x 8gb down to $109 over the weekend (now up to $119 on newegg). Does it make sense to attach all 8 3.5" Storage drives to the H310, or should I split them between my motherboard and the card? I plan to have 8 3.5" HDs, and 1 (possibly 2) 2.5" SSD drives. I ended up grabbing a Dell H310 Perc SAS controller ($40 shipped on ebay) to allow more than the 6 HDs my current motherboard supports. OK, so after a little more research, I decided to go halfway with my planned upgrade (but in a direction where I could complete the upgrade anytime if I find it necessary). and again between the SAS controller and the IPMI, I'm very tempted. BUT I'm thinking the SuperMicro board is likely much better quality than the stock dells. Also, if I'm just totally wrong, and should get a expansion card instead, LMK. tho if it makes sense to spend $100-200 more, then I don't mind). I'm open to other recommendations, if they are along the same lines (as in not $500 more expensive. assuming what I am planning does indeed make sense. Also, I don't mind spending a little money for peace of mind. I would literally have to throw out the T20, my apartment just doesn't have the space to waste with a machine like that doing absolutely nothing. does this make sense? One thing to note is, if I was to jsut build a system from scratch, and NOR reuse the parts from the Dell T20. but based on my use case for the system, I don't think that matters.Īnyway, what do you guys think?.
The only weird part si, my current board I believe is an Intel C226, while this is a C222.
which I think may be well worth the upgrade. Besides the integrated LSI 2308 SAS controller, I would be getting IPMI 2.0. and grabbed the same case and some ECC RAM for the board. what if I just replaced the stock mother board with a SUPERMICRO MBD-X10SL7-F-O, and moved my CPU, PSU, and HDs over. then I realized, instead of getting the extra SAS controller.
or just some total garbage card that would likely be more of a waste of money in the long run (I'll spend the extra $50 for stability).īUT. And to handle the extra HDs, I figured something like a Supermicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 would make sense (I haven't done extensive research yet, but it seems like it's either something in the $100+ range like that card. So, I was thinking about gutting the current stock case and putting everything into a Fractal Design Node 804. I was also considering upgrading the RAM, either getting an extra 16gb (2 x 8gb) or possibly just going all out and getting 4 x 8gb to max out the board. Sadly it only has 4 SATA ports, and basically 4 3.5" bays, one of which is holding my 2.5" SSD (though has space for a second).Īnyway, I've finally decided to turn this thing into a dedicated NAS (and ideally a Plex media server, and maybe some other stuff, ie sickbeard). I've already replaced the power supply with a Corsair CS550M, added 4gb of ECC RAM (so it's at 8gb right now), and have a 750gb SSD, the 1 TB drive it came with, and a pair of 2tb WD drives I got at a very low price from frys. It's got Xeon E3-1225 v3 Quad core in it. So, I've had a DEll PowerEdge T20 sitting around for about 6 months since I bought it on a very good sale from dell.