<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">It is a few Gen's old, but still viable. Supermicro hardware has a pretty long shelf life.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">In this case, the board is Discontinued, but they will have drivers and info on their site for a long time.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9DBL-3F.cfm">https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9DBL-3F.cfm</a> <br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 8:39 AM Aaron Jones <<a href="mailto:retro64xyz@gmail.com">retro64xyz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/Nice-1u-SUPERMICRO-X9DBL-3F-w-2x-E5-2450L-16-32HT-Cores-48GB-Ram-128GB-SSD/192960967134?hash=item2ced5eb1de:g:uhEAAOSwHKVcp-eJ" target="_blank">https://www.ebay.com/itm/Nice-1u-SUPERMICRO-X9DBL-3F-w-2x-E5-2450L-16-32HT-Cores-48GB-Ram-128GB-SSD/192960967134?hash=item2ced5eb1de:g:uhEAAOSwHKVcp-eJ</a></div><div><br></div><div>Can anyone confirm the above item would be a good purchase for some home server use? I am looking to run <a href="https://www.proxmox.com/en/" target="_blank">https://www.proxmox.com/en/</a> and then will also use Docker in each VM. I want to run a DNS server and a few other 'things' and I would like it to be upgrade capable later. I plan to add more RAM and a better hard drive eventually.</div><div><br></div><div>Any thoughts? Alternatives? I would love to buy a ThunderX 96 core ARM system like the System76 Starling but I don't have the money for it. This seems like a low noise 32core system with the capability of handling a good amount of ram on the cheap. I would swap out the SSD for a SSHD in the 6-8TB range and probably be good to go.</div><div><br></div><div>Am I missing something?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Aaron<br></div></div>
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