I came over this 1U Quiet Homelab 8-Bay Server Tyan S5512 Home Media, Security, Gaming Server | eBay
Looks like a very decent system. Is Tyan a no go?
Looks like a very decent system. Is Tyan a no go?
Cheap fast quiet server?
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-That's a V1 right?
-Did you find any reviews / what mobo is it having? (Edit: prolly close : Tyan S5512WGM2NR C204 Xeon E3 LSI SAS2008 Motherboard Review)
-Price increase between 16GB to 32GB is insane. 8GB sticks are ~$20.
Had to check how much extra I'd have to pay to get this - and it's $ 660
No such thing as cheap, fast and quiet...especially in a 1u case. Pick two.
For some reason it defaults to the UPS 660 USD shipping, but at least for me there is also 163 USPS shipping option.Had to check how much extra I'd have to pay to get this - and it's $ 660
Of course that is almost as much as the bare server itself so it may be a moot point.
Thats a good price for what it is. Liquid cooled 1U with IPMI KVM, 8x hotswap 6GB SAS and a CPU with a 9k passmark.
Not bad at all.
Not bad at all.
Look again. I count either 3 or 5 40mm fans. Again...not quiet. Even if its fairly quiet, 40mm fans are annoying.It has liquid cooling, and I see no fans
Is that next day international delivery something?!
Seems good, but as not supermicro, expensive unbuffered ram, 40mm high pitch fans... hmm water cooling looks interesting though..
Technically you can get cheap, fast and quiet, but the trade-off is a combination of taking up a LOT more space and/or putting existing components into a new larger chassis and replacing fans. With most server mainboards that you can buy retail, they have regular 4-pin PWM fan headers, but their fan controllers/BIOS fan settings leave a lot to be desired.
I have a Supermicro X8DTL-iF that has two Xeon L5640's that I used for transcoding my ever growing movie collection. I have it in a regular case with 4 Arctic Cooling F12-PWM PST case fans that are daisy-chained off the main processor fan headers. If the processor kicks out enough heat that processor heatsink fan spools up, and the case fans follow suit automatically. Its a pretty good semi-homebrew system, and I use it in my gaming desktop as well.
I have a Supermicro X8DTL-iF that has two Xeon L5640's that I used for transcoding my ever growing movie collection. I have it in a regular case with 4 Arctic Cooling F12-PWM PST case fans that are daisy-chained off the main processor fan headers. If the processor kicks out enough heat that processor heatsink fan spools up, and the case fans follow suit automatically. Its a pretty good semi-homebrew system, and I use it in my gaming desktop as well.
I really like the high clock speed on the E3's, lower latency often means a lot more shit gets done, one example is fsync performace is a lot better when you have fast single thread performance. Two E5-26XX core CPU's are only faster and more energy efficent for specific workloads, you also have to keep in mind that you have the NUMA overhead. Many workloads today with a lot of number crunching is done on the GPU, so a lot of CPU cores isn't necessarily as sexy at it sounds like.
I wouldn't underestimate the E3's, especially for homelab. They are excellent as firewalls, VPN, DNS, web-servers, database. In fact I run all this on one box for my company, with 30 VPN clients and I use less than 4GB ram, and that includes a Tomcat instance that consumes at least 1GB for itself.
I wouldn't underestimate the E3's, especially for homelab. They are excellent as firewalls, VPN, DNS, web-servers, database. In fact I run all this on one box for my company, with 30 VPN clients and I use less than 4GB ram, and that includes a Tomcat instance that consumes at least 1GB for itself.
Also note: I asked the seller about rails and apparently they are not included but can be purchased separately.
I ordered two, hopefully the third party shipper I am using (ShopUSA) will not cost much more than their estimate calculator specified. They only give you the exact amount when they have received the product, but then they also handle VAT payment etc., which is awesome.
Doh, of course there is a simple solution, thanks for the suggestion
I ordered two, hopefully the third party shipper I am using (ShopUSA) will not cost much more than their estimate calculator specified. They only give you the exact amount when they have received the product, but then they also handle VAT payment etc., which is awesome.
Took some finding, but these work in my R210 ii :
Centon RD709G01 8GB PC3-10600 ECC Unbuffered DIMM Server RAM | eBay
