one of the companies I work with contacted me this morning. they offered me a Supermicro 847 36-bay server, shipped to me for $234. It has the 846A and 826A backplanes. It's got a X8 motherboard and 3x Marvell based RAID cards I think; none of that matters as much as the chassis itself. I was considering this as a swap out for one of my 846 servers, so I can have an extra 12-bays in the rear for testing drives and what not.
Is this a good deal? Any drawbacks having a 847 vs 846? the 847 has 7x fans vs the 3x fans + 2 rear fans of the 846 right? Is it significantly louder?
Is this a good deal? Any drawbacks having a 847 vs 846? the 847 has 7x fans vs the 3x fans + 2 rear fans of the 846 right? Is it significantly louder?