looking at a server

[Phil Marsh]

Hi Jeffrey,
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 and I would choose
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.
Just wondering if I could get Ubuntu installed and running using a SATA SSD
drive on this?
Thanks,
Phil

On Mon, Oct 3, 2022 at 9:20 PM Jeffrey Means <jeff at meanspc.com> wrote:

> Phil, if you keep watching the surplus department, CSU will surplus out
> multi drive hotswap servers from time to time. These units don't come up
> often but when they do they are a great find. I've found doing this to be a
> cost effective way of building out a 15 drive RAID-6 hotswapable array for
> myself. Basically I kept the case for the hotswapable drives and the
> motherboard was a decent SuperMicro with a pair of Xeon processors mounted.
> I did replace the OS(it ran a proprietary version of BSD when I first
> bought it), and a PCIx RAID controller with a PCIe x8 SATA controller with
> 16 internal ports. This box is now running Ubuntu 22.04.1 and has a paltry
> 50TB accessible through the RAID6 array it is hosting for online backups
> and my media library.
>
>
> ---
> Jeffrey D. Means
> Consultant, MeansPC
>
> +1(970)308-1298 | jeff at meanspc.com
> https://www.meanspc.com/
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> Fort Collins, CO 80525-6946
>
> On Oct 3, 2022 at 21:02, Phil Marsh <microcraftx at gmail.com> 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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