I bought 3 of these a few months back for $500/each from their old listing
HERE. Work related purchase. $500 was the lowest offer he was accepting on them at the time (I tried various offers up to $490 at the time). I really wanted to get them for what I spent on the 12bay versions he was selling ($300) but couldn't. These are really great servers though and were definitely worth it. If they dropped to $300 I might need to think about purchasing a bunch more. The trays are nice, runs quiet and cool, plenty fast for my needs. 2U servers with 24 2.5" bays tend to be a bit pricey compared to 3.5" servers.
I filled them with various deals on 2.5" disks from STH as well. Like the 400GB Intel S3710 SSD, various larger capacity Samsung SSDs (read optimized disks), and those 450GB Hitachi 10k drives that sold for like <$15 (which were surprisingly nice and quick). Connecting them with 3 x LSI 9340-8i/IBM M1215 12Gb HBA's per chassis (flashed to 9300-8i). The HBA's were cheap for 12Gb (future use perhaps) and I don't want an expander slowing down the SSD's.
All Intel servers from this generation have a list of pcie 3.0 devices that will run at 3.0 speeds when running E5-2600 V1 chips. Anything outside that list will run at 2.0 speeds. Upgrading to V2 chips will unlock 3.0 speeds however.Info of the issue
HERE and compatibility list
HERE. As you can see, you can get 3.0 speeds without "intel branded stuff". LSI and Mellanox devices especially. My flashed HBA's appear to support 3.0 for instance.