Hi Everyone,
i would like to thank you all for the numerous ideas and alternatives you proposed to me, especially @WANg, @EffrafaxOfWug, were really helpful in clearing my myn in about what to do.
Sadly my plans have suddenly changed as my primary laptop just died and had to replace quickly...
the plan started like: the microserver is getting old and i would like to do something really nice with it...
also i have some spare HDDs that would like to put to good use before EOL...
4*2Tb 3.5" sata wd red
3*1Tb 3.5" sata (various)
2*1Tb 2.5" sata
4*146Gb 2.5" sas 15K
4*146GB 2.5" sas 10K...
mmm i see that cooljag has it's factories in china :D maybe i can source something from taobao (the chinese ebay)
my workload is quite low, skipping the pfsense part i could reasonably do everything with just one DS 1819+ from synology, the point is that they use even lower CPUs and they are...
I just checked on the website, and apparently the board has only one usable slot.
in the key features it indicates that there is 1 pcie x8 slot with an option to use it on either one or the other slot.
A2SDV-8C-TLN5F | Motherboards | Products | Super Micro Computer, Inc.
this board from Supermicro could be almost perfect for you. A2SDI-H-TF
the only drawback is that's a mini itx, but maybe if you pair it with a pcie expander things could be more reasonable
hope to be helpful
Hi Everyone i'm Eddie, thanks in advance for your help/comments.
I'm planning an upgrade on my actual home system and of course i'm really low budget.
Ms system is composed with a few
Hp DL 380 G7 - 1Cpu L5630 + 64Gb ddr3 ecc + 8*146Gb sas 10k
used as test machine for now and really never...
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