159$ US 'new' Quanta D51B-1U LGA2011-3 Server Best Offer
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It has a backplane connected to some sort of controller card in one of the PCIe slots. The controller has DAS2BTH48A0 printed on it.
Found the product page: QS 3008 | QCT SAS Mezzanine | QCT.io
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Damn lol. The caddies is going to turn out to be more expensive than the server itself.
I ordered from a different (now gone) listing. My unit has two cables running to dedicated connectors on the motherboard that carry PCIe signals. The first two bays can do either NVMe 2.5" drives or SAS/SATA. So either 10 SAS drives or 2 NVMe + 8 SAS are supported
I think these are the right caddies, and they're only $11.99:That seems to be a trend... they're going for 29$ each... to buy all 10 would cost 290$, almost double the chassis. And for anyone curious, I tried SMC (supermicro) caddies, they don't fit
QUANTA 2.5" SFF DRIVE TRAY CADDY FOR SERVER D51B-1U D51B-2U
Sounds like an amazing deal! Was it a complete surprise, or did you already see hints in the sellers photos?
I'm still waiting for my order of 3 which should arrive some time this coming week. From the listing picture, it looks like it already includes the mezzanine dual SFP+ expansion card, and another person mentioned their order came with the 12Gb SAS controller. I had ordered the rails separately, and will have to pick up the caddies. If everything goes according to plan, this will be a nice replacement for my existing VMware homelab setup and give me the ability to set up a proper vSAN cluster.
The only parts of that I am not yet sure is how to set up the boot disks and how to adapt the M.2 NVMe cache SSDs. I suppose I could use SATA DOM with USB header adapter for power for boot. As for the M.2 SSDs, either a PCIe to M.2 adapter or M.2 to 2.5" NVMe adapter enclosure.
The only parts of that I am not yet sure is how to set up the boot disks and how to adapt the M.2 NVMe cache SSDs. I suppose I could use SATA DOM with USB header adapter for power for boot. As for the M.2 SSDs, either a PCIe to M.2 adapter or M.2 to 2.5" NVMe adapter enclosure.
@SPCRich can you link which firmwares you updated for the updates?
I received the 3 units yesterday and was pleasantly surprised that it came with SATA DOM already installed, as well as the dual port 10G SFP+ card and the SAS controller. I purchased the U.2-to-U.2 cables and the M.2-to-U.2 enclosure that should arrive next week.
Links:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01AOS4NE6
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07T8LJY23
I received the 3 units yesterday and was pleasantly surprised that it came with SATA DOM already installed, as well as the dual port 10G SFP+ card and the SAS controller. I purchased the U.2-to-U.2 cables and the M.2-to-U.2 enclosure that should arrive next week.
Links:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01AOS4NE6
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07T8LJY23
I installed a pair of QFRE Xeon E5-2622 v3 processors into mine and haven't had any issues. Considering the E5-2622 v3 (non-ES) isn't even on their compatible CPU list these servers probably aren't super picky.
The V4 CPUs might need a BIOS update to work though.
I found a few manuals.
Technical guide:
ftp://175.124.38.6/Manual/SU7-2104G/1U_SU7-2104G_201408012.pdf
IPMI commands (including fan control):
http://www.staroceans.org/e-book/S2B IPMI Commands.pdf
Technical guide:
ftp://175.124.38.6/Manual/SU7-2104G/1U_SU7-2104G_201408012.pdf
IPMI commands (including fan control):
http://www.staroceans.org/e-book/S2B IPMI Commands.pdf