Purchase Check - 1U server

[Stephen Partington]

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 <retro64xyz at gmail.com> 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
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