Hi
Some observations might help prospective buyers.
I purchased 2 of these units a couple of months ago,
BNIB Dell Compellent CT-SC030. I paid almost the same price the above seller is asking for the units, in the same condition - including delivery, which in Europe is a very good price.
These are normally used as head units for external disk arrays. They come with 16 LFF disk caddies, filled with blanks.
The boot drive is a small 512MB - CF Card, connected to the motherboard with an IDE cable. The CD Drive is also an IDE device.
The Backplane is a BPN-SAS-836TQ.
https://www.supermicro.com/manuals/other/BPN-SAS-836TQ.pdf
The main interior components are a Supermicro X7DBI Motherboard with one CPU and 4G RAM. As mentioned above all of the interior components can perhaps be considered as inefficient, electronic waste.
The X7DBI motherboard has a screaming fan profile, no doubt due to the inefficient older design generation.
The chassis fans are standard supermicro PWM units and will work quietly with newer generation motherboard fan profiles.
The mounting rails that I received are Rev “A” and will not interchange with the more common Rev “B” rails. These chassis will accept the Rev “B” rails.
Some motherboards will require the tapping of a 6/32 Thread for the mounting standoff under the rear fan, nearest the PSU. This is quite difficult as the hole is very close to the rear-window.
The front power connector cable is short and may require the use of an extension.
I removed the PWS-801-1R power supplies and used PWS-920P-1R power supplies in one chassis with a X10DRL-iF motherboard, with no problems. The PWS-721P-1R power supplies in my other chassis using a X9DRD-7LN4F-JBOD motherboard return garbage readings to the IPMI power consumption page, otherwise they are fine.
These PSU’s are less noisy than the cooling fans and almost silent when the units are in the shutdown state. They can be easily found for really modest cost.
If you are looking for a “New” Chassis that will accept full height AOC’s, 16 disk drives, with rails, perhaps these units make a “Compelling” case.
The system will not let me upload any photos at the moment, but I hope this helps.
RedX1