looking at a server

[Phil Marsh]

Hi Zak,
There are two SATA ports internal on the machine. I think I would also need
a power adaptor cable to supply power to the SATA drive which I would chose
an SSD SATA drive. One SSD drive is sufficient since this is to be used
only as a computing box for modeling purposes running headless and not as
storage. I'm looking at another used server for that. Just need to be sure
I can get this box to boot and get Linux installed. Being that it's
headless - I need to check but there might not be a graphics monitor drive
capability.
Thanks,
Phil

On Mon, Oct 3, 2022 at 9:14 PM Zak Smith <zak at computer.org> wrote:

> My recommendation for a modern ZFS server is to use SSD SATA drives
> and put them in one of these:
>
>
> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07G46V2C5/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
>
> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B077Z7FQ43/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
>
> and then run them off an LSI SAS/SATA controller (IT mode), in a
> current minus 1 or -2 generation tower.
>
> This is what I do now.   I used to hang a bunch of SAS and/or SATA
> drives in an external SAS/SATA enclosure from PC Pitstop,
>   https://www.pc-pitstop.com/sas-expanders-enclosures
> and use external SAS/SATA connection from a similar LSI card
> (Infiniband cable).
>
> Rack machines for home kind of suck because they are loud as hell.
> Typically you'd source the drive caddies from ebay or such and then
> populate the drive bays.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2022 at 09:01:54PM -0600, Phil Marsh wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I was looking at getting some older servers to beef up compute power here
> > and also for a SATA server (ZFS).
> > I've found a Dell Compellent SC8000 at CSU surplus for $250 which has
> > 2XE52640 Xeons and 64GB RAM. It seems OK for what I need but I think it
> > requires an external SAS storage caddy if you want to add drives. I'm
> > thinking it would be cheaper and better to also get the Proliant DL
> > 120G6 which appears to take four SATA drives for 50 bucks from CSU
> Surplus
> > as well?
> > I like the dual E5-2640 Xeons and this server does appear to have an
> > internal SATA data connection. I would likely just add one internal SATA
> > SSD drive to boot it and hold the OS - because I would use the Compellent
> > primarily for CPU power.
> >
> > Not really sure how to add SAS or SATA drives to the internal caddies?
> > Any thoughts or suggestions?
> > Thanks and best,
> > Phil
>
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