just saw this and thought it was a really good deal for $300 + shipping. Shipping to CA for me is $45, so I suspect for most US residents, this is going to be under $350.
SUPERMICRO 2U BAREBONE SERVER X9DRI-LN4F+ REV 1.20 12x Trays Add CPU/Ram/HDD | eBay
Has a X9DRi-LN4F+ rev 1.20 motherboard, which will support v2 Ivy Bridge CPUs. Has 24x DIMMs which is more than the usual 16x DIMMs, but to fully populate requires attention to supported RAM configurations. 4x 16x PCI-E 3.0 slot to accommodate wide PCI-E cards. They only thing I don't like about this board is lack of good HBA, and there have been some reports of memory related issues when you fully populate all DIMMs. (I don't know if those have been fixed by BIOS update or not)
The backplane is a 826A, so essentially direct attached and can support SAS3 with a SAS3 controller and cables. The photos show cables with SFF-8643 connectors, so if that's what comes with it, adding a SAS3 controller should be easy.
The PSUs are Platinum efficiency, but not the "SQ" ones. If noise is a concern, might have to consider the cost of upgrading to the "SQ" PSUs for another ~$160-ish.
My experience with this seller has mostly been good, but not perfect. They have messed up a few orders, but did eventually fix the problem; just wasted some time. I would still buy from them if I wanted this.
SUPERMICRO 2U BAREBONE SERVER X9DRI-LN4F+ REV 1.20 12x Trays Add CPU/Ram/HDD | eBay
Has a X9DRi-LN4F+ rev 1.20 motherboard, which will support v2 Ivy Bridge CPUs. Has 24x DIMMs which is more than the usual 16x DIMMs, but to fully populate requires attention to supported RAM configurations. 4x 16x PCI-E 3.0 slot to accommodate wide PCI-E cards. They only thing I don't like about this board is lack of good HBA, and there have been some reports of memory related issues when you fully populate all DIMMs. (I don't know if those have been fixed by BIOS update or not)
The backplane is a 826A, so essentially direct attached and can support SAS3 with a SAS3 controller and cables. The photos show cables with SFF-8643 connectors, so if that's what comes with it, adding a SAS3 controller should be easy.
The PSUs are Platinum efficiency, but not the "SQ" ones. If noise is a concern, might have to consider the cost of upgrading to the "SQ" PSUs for another ~$160-ish.
My experience with this seller has mostly been good, but not perfect. They have messed up a few orders, but did eventually fix the problem; just wasted some time. I would still buy from them if I wanted this.