Hey all,
Currently in my homelab I have Lenovo ThinkServer TS140 Tower Server System that needs to be moved from office to the garage. It is limited to 32GB of RAM and my love for VMs on XCP-ng is growing
I will most likely end up with this Wall Mount Server Cabinet. What I'm not sure is if I should buy used Supermicro with CPU and memory on eBay or build my own?
I really like the idea of IPMI remote management and reliability of those boards, that's why I'm leaning toward Supermicro route. For 3+ years I have TrueNAS running in a VM with 4 x 3TB HDs and IT mode flashed M1015 and that is the reason for larger case. In the future I would like to upgrade/add more drives.
My question to you guys is what route would you go, build from scratch or buy used? So far Intel Xeon served me well and I'm open to the suggestions.
Thanks in advance for your time/replies!
Currently in my homelab I have Lenovo ThinkServer TS140 Tower Server System that needs to be moved from office to the garage. It is limited to 32GB of RAM and my love for VMs on XCP-ng is growing
I will most likely end up with this Wall Mount Server Cabinet. What I'm not sure is if I should buy used Supermicro with CPU and memory on eBay or build my own?
I really like the idea of IPMI remote management and reliability of those boards, that's why I'm leaning toward Supermicro route. For 3+ years I have TrueNAS running in a VM with 4 x 3TB HDs and IT mode flashed M1015 and that is the reason for larger case. In the future I would like to upgrade/add more drives.
My question to you guys is what route would you go, build from scratch or buy used? So far Intel Xeon served me well and I'm open to the suggestions.
Thanks in advance for your time/replies!