That's along the lines of what I was thinking. Maybe use it as a workstation scratch/testing/dev area or as a gaming drive. I already use a dedicated SSD for steam games, so its not big deal if this needs drivers and isn't bootable. The price is better than consumer NVME drives, and only...
Whats the difference between one of these and an NVME drive? You just can't boot them? They look like they'd make an awesome gaming or vm storage drive, price isn't that much more than some "normal" SATA SSDs I've seen recently.
Not that server, if you want a 1U that'll be *ok* for a living room, look at the Dell R210 II, I just updated the firmware on mine last night and swear it dropped down another peg on the fans when idle. I can hear it, but barely so. When my apt AC runs I can't hear it at all. If you stick it...
They don;t seem to be selling too fast, hopefully he still has some in a month or so. I went a little overboard with some stuff last month so now I have to sit out buying anything until after the new year.
Is the X9DRH-7F a good board for doing a dual-xeon setup? Most of the e6-2600 compatible boards are $400USD+ right now. I'm thinking maybe you could get this, swap the board into a larger case (for sound purposes, I have the 24bay supermicro), then find something else to do with the 1u chassis...
How loud are those Quanta QSSC-2ML's? I'm about 15ft from the half-rack in my office (mostly silent network gear for our small office) and I do take phone calls, so it can't be terribly loud, but I need something to do development on.
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