It is a few Gen's old, but still viable. Supermicro hardware has a pretty long shelf life. In this case, the board is Discontinued, but they will have drivers and info on their site for a long time. https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9DBL-3F.cfm On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 8:39 AM Aaron Jones wrote: > > 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 > > Can anyone confirm the above item would be a good purchase for some home > server use? I am looking to run https://www.proxmox.com/en/ 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. > > 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. > > Am I missing something? > > Thanks, > Aaron > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen