**Updated Pricing - Price has been lowered and items for trade have been updated along with new pics of the subsequent build and benchmarks. 12-7-14**
There will be a large number of items posted in here, and this post will be updated frequently. A little background information: My story starts a few years back when I started frequenting this site at which point I caught the fever for building the biggest fastest server I could imagine. I have spent the last 24 months or so trying out all sorts of storage configurations, and as luck has it a lot of these projects worked out really well. I finally reached my goal of a fully redundant clustered storage spaces set up with redundant paths, expanders, chassis, hbas, Infiniband nics, 10gb Ethernet nics, and I was seeing really great speeds from all of this. I ended up with 3 node clustered storage spaces/SOFS Cluster and a 24 node HyperV cluster being feed over infiniband from SMB 3.1 shares. At one point in time I had thought about setting these up in a data center and start up a company using this hardware, but it turns out that the hosting market is tough to get started in and as much as I have learned about setting up and running this infrastructure I was quite out of my wheel house running a hosting company (I have no formal training, ie college degree in information Technology, though I do have a PhD completely unrelated to all this fun computer stuff!!).
As this project came to a close something happened that changed my needs.....Extremely high power bills (more due to cooling costs in Arizona than powering servers, but running my cluster full time isn't super cheap), a wedding (new wife is surprisingly okay with most of the stuff I do, but there are limits to her patience ! ), and a new goal of crazy fast storage (think flachesan V2...2 million iops & 24 GB/s reads and writes).
So feel free to make a reasonable offer, though, I will price all of these parts really competitively so as to not insult the intelligence of the user of this site (we all can see the going rates on ebay). I will also make a list of items I would be willing to trade for as well. Have a great one.
For Sale:
Motherboards:
1 x Supermicro X8DAH+-f - $140
SAS SSDs:
10 x SanDisk/Pliant LB806M 800gb - $475
1 x SanDisk/Pliant LB206M 200gb - HP branded - $200
2 x OCZ Talos 2 240gb - $155
SAS HBA:
4 x LSI 9202-16e - 16x external sas - pci-e 2.0 16x - 700,000 iops/6GB/s - $300
1 x Marvell 8gb WAM1 PCI-E x4 w/SuperCap - Crazy Fast ZIL w/Unlimited writes!! - $99
6 x SuperMicro SAT2-MV8 8 port sata PCI-X card - $22
PFSense Appliance:
2 x WatchGuard Firebox X750e T1AE8 - These are great low power pfsense appliances, they take a bit of time to configure but once that is done they run fantastic and the LCD panel even works!- $115
Things I will trade for:
24 x 256gb or higher ssd drive with powerloss protection
6-8x - 2.5" NVMe Drives, redriver cards, and Backplanes or cables
8gb or 16gb ddr3 ecc 1600mhz dimms
There will be a large number of items posted in here, and this post will be updated frequently. A little background information: My story starts a few years back when I started frequenting this site at which point I caught the fever for building the biggest fastest server I could imagine. I have spent the last 24 months or so trying out all sorts of storage configurations, and as luck has it a lot of these projects worked out really well. I finally reached my goal of a fully redundant clustered storage spaces set up with redundant paths, expanders, chassis, hbas, Infiniband nics, 10gb Ethernet nics, and I was seeing really great speeds from all of this. I ended up with 3 node clustered storage spaces/SOFS Cluster and a 24 node HyperV cluster being feed over infiniband from SMB 3.1 shares. At one point in time I had thought about setting these up in a data center and start up a company using this hardware, but it turns out that the hosting market is tough to get started in and as much as I have learned about setting up and running this infrastructure I was quite out of my wheel house running a hosting company (I have no formal training, ie college degree in information Technology, though I do have a PhD completely unrelated to all this fun computer stuff!!).
As this project came to a close something happened that changed my needs.....Extremely high power bills (more due to cooling costs in Arizona than powering servers, but running my cluster full time isn't super cheap), a wedding (new wife is surprisingly okay with most of the stuff I do, but there are limits to her patience ! ), and a new goal of crazy fast storage (think flachesan V2...2 million iops & 24 GB/s reads and writes).
So feel free to make a reasonable offer, though, I will price all of these parts really competitively so as to not insult the intelligence of the user of this site (we all can see the going rates on ebay). I will also make a list of items I would be willing to trade for as well. Have a great one.
For Sale:
Motherboards:
1 x Supermicro X8DAH+-f - $140
SAS SSDs:
10 x SanDisk/Pliant LB806M 800gb - $475
1 x SanDisk/Pliant LB206M 200gb - HP branded - $200
2 x OCZ Talos 2 240gb - $155
SAS HBA:
4 x LSI 9202-16e - 16x external sas - pci-e 2.0 16x - 700,000 iops/6GB/s - $300
1 x Marvell 8gb WAM1 PCI-E x4 w/SuperCap - Crazy Fast ZIL w/Unlimited writes!! - $99
6 x SuperMicro SAT2-MV8 8 port sata PCI-X card - $22
PFSense Appliance:
2 x WatchGuard Firebox X750e T1AE8 - These are great low power pfsense appliances, they take a bit of time to configure but once that is done they run fantastic and the LCD panel even works!- $115
Things I will trade for:
24 x 256gb or higher ssd drive with powerloss protection
6-8x - 2.5" NVMe Drives, redriver cards, and Backplanes or cables
8gb or 16gb ddr3 ecc 1600mhz dimms
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