MrRackables ZT 2U E5 V1 servers?

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OBasel

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I'm not sure it's a great deal but:
Adaptec RAID $799: ZT 2U Storage Server Supermicro 12 Bay 2x Intel Xeon E5-2670 24GB ASR-5805 RAID
LSI RAID $899: ZT 2U Storage Server Supermicro 12 Bay 2x Intel Xeon E5-2670 24GB LSI 9261-8i

Says it comes with an expander backplane.

2 E5-2670's say $90 ea = $180.
Adaptec 5805 = $50
6x 4GB DIMMs at say $10 ea = $60
Dual SFP+ NIC = $70

$360 worth of stuff in there so the $799 one is like $439 for the chassis, power supplies, rails, motherboard, and SAS expander backplane.

I wouldn't say it's great but I wonder if its good. Maybe better for another section? Listings say it has IPMI.
 

james23

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Mr Rackables usually has some pretty good deals / prices on Rack Servers, ive bought quite a few from them and have always been very happy with quality and shipping packaging.

However i dont feel this is a good deal at all, first off the chassis @ $439 is really high, even if it were a SUPERMICRO (which it is not), same with the motherboard, its ZT systems (which maybe its a white-label / OEM for supermicro motherboards? im not sure, but id rather all supermicro parts/MB). Keep in mind too while the adaptec 5805 is a great card, its max is SATA 3.0GB/s (im not sure what the backplane on this chassis is rated for speed wise, but with the 5805 the max uplink you will get to the backplane is 4 x 3.0 GB/s channels, please correct me if im wrong- but with that speed your max theoretical is ~ 1000 MB/s, *IF* the 5805's processors could even run your RAID X array at that speed)
 

PigLover

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They are both listed OBO. If you are interested and think there is a more fair price then offer it. Worst he can do is decline.
 

xnoodle

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Of note is the dual 10gbE via 2 SFP+ which seems to be powered by Intel silicon.
Thank goodness for people that post dmesgs to random forums.

Per [block:for-3.14/core] kernel BUG at fs/bio.c:1748
[ 5.322683] ixgbe: Intel(R) 10 Gigabit PCI Express Network Driver - version 3.15.1-k
[ 5.326153] ixgbe: Copyright (c) 1999-2013 Intel Corporation.
[ 5.328828] ixgb: Intel(R) PRO/10GbE Network Driver - version 1.0.135-k2-NAPI
[ 5.331631] ixgb: Copyright (c) 1999-2008 Intel Corporation.
 

Patrick

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At $599 it would be interesting. At $799 there are too many unknowns for me.
 

briandm81

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Given the cost of dual 2011 motherboards right now, its not a bad deal. But the memory is basically throw-away (for me anyway) and I already have processors. I'm going to be looking for a supermicro deal most likely...
 

andrewbedia

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Given the cost of dual 2011 motherboards right now, its not a bad deal. But the memory is basically throw-away (for me anyway) and I already have processors. I'm going to be looking for a supermicro deal most likely...
You can call unix surplus (mrrackables) on the phone and have them quote you a lower price if you want them to leave out junk like the cpus and memory. I've personally done this before.
 

Dajinn

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They don't always do that though. It really depends on the chassis and their quantity.
 
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