1U Server With 12 x LFF 3.5" & 4 x 2.5" Drive bays - Sweet deal for smaller footprint homelab

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This seller has a quantity of 1U 12 Bay LFF servers for sale that can hold dual Xeon E5 V3's and DDR4 with 10Gig! I purchased 2 of these instead of 1 R730 for an upgrade.
They accept lower offers. I snagged 2 for a total of $600 with shipping included. Definitely worth a look

 
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I have the same model and it's a great server. This listing comes with the LSI 3008 and Intel 82599ES mezzanine cards but no rails. (Rails part number is 1HY9ZZZ048P.)
 
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ano

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They have these on a regular basis with various specs, ive been waiting for a single socket version or 25gbe to come again.
10 is kinda useless for something like thisfor most use cases sadly, 25+++ is needed, let us know when you see some ;)

I'm just buying 12 drive 2U ones, but I'm very U restricted both at home, and work and everywhere, so would have been better with 1U..

homeceph will then be 12U not... 6U.
 
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10 is kinda useless for something like thisfor most use cases sadly, 25+++ is needed, let us know when you see some ;)

I'm just buying 12 drive 2U ones, but I'm very U restricted both at home, and work and everywhere, so would have been better with 1U..

homeceph will then be 12U not... 6U.
Yeah il post here after ive bought 6-10 for myself :D

Ive gone with c240 m4 for now, paid 160per for 24sff units (r730xd equivalent).
hba is 10-15$ and their vic 1387 mlom i found at 80$ per for 2x 40gbe, both esxi8 supported.

i want to transition onto something like the quantas with 2.5+3.5.
But i want either 25gbe included or something closer to the low power single socket D1541 quad sfp+ they dumped a while back.
 
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Just something to note they don't fit in the typical racks properly just a beware. :)
If you put it into a rack you will want PDU's that are not ZeroU otherwise they extend back.

Decent price for them, we have 100+ of these running for customers. There are also some good deals on ones for scalable but they don't fit at all in the racks. Quite a bit bigger than even these systems.
 
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There are also some good deals on ones for scalable but they don't fit at all in the racks. Quite a bit bigger than even these systems.
Was scalable ones going at 350 last week but only 4x3.5 bays so big meh

And the 10-16x 3.5" 1U units are indeed deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep
 
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I'm interested in this from the SAS3 perspective with ssd's (yes, ideally faster GBE). On the other hand, Xeon's are overpowered for what I would use it for, and lack of iGPU would cause other issues.

I'd be interested how people are using this at home.
 
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Cruzader

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I am so bummed we don't have something like unixsurplus on this side of the ocean :(
For about half of Europe there are shippers that specialise in US->Europe freight by sea.
Then its 40-60$ area from their US terminal to your door or delivery by local postal service.

A bit slow but sure beats the 450-600$ prices you often see on ebay listings.
 
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UNIXSurplusCom is a great company. I've boughten a few things from them all without any issues.
I've had nothing but mediocre experiences with them, unlike most of the large scale eBay scrappers they have a huge attitude towards returns. Usually when you get something DOA from one of the big sellers you send it back, no hassle, and they'll send out a new one. UnixSurplus tried fairly hard to convince me that I had to pay a restocking fee because it was an incompatibility on my end - which, fair is fair, they can do what they want, but it left a bad impression and delayed my project by a week.
 
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I'd be interested how people are using this at home.
I'm using mine as a NAS + VM/container host. ZFS on Ubuntu.

I've had nothing but mediocre experiences with them, unlike most of the large scale eBay scrappers they have a huge attitude towards returns. Usually when you get something DOA from one of the big sellers you send it back, no hassle, and they'll send out a new one. UnixSurplus tried fairly hard to convince me that I had to pay a restocking fee because it was an incompatibility on my end - which, fair is fair, they can do what they want, but it left a bad impression and delayed my project by a week.
I had the opposite experience and found it easy to return something to UnixSurplus.
 
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I've had nothing but mediocre experiences with them, unlike most of the large scale eBay scrappers they have a huge attitude towards returns. Usually when you get something DOA from one of the big sellers you send it back, no hassle, and they'll send out a new one. UnixSurplus tried fairly hard to convince me that I had to pay a restocking fee because it was an incompatibility on my end - which, fair is fair, they can do what they want, but it left a bad impression and delayed my project by a week.
Ebay has gotten really bad with forcing sellers to take basically all returns regardless of what has happened, and this can really hurt a company as returns are usually a single digit percentage of expenses and can jump into double digits because of this change. When you consider even really well run businesses net only a single digit percentage of gross sales after all expenses, a change like this can literally cut all profit out, so it requires some draconian actions to remain profitable--fight that return percentage and/or get off ebay. For some of the larger brands, getting off ebay doesn't hurt their sales as much, but for others it's a real pickle--get off ebay and lose enough sales to not be profitable or stay on ebay and get killed by the return policy--and many are still figuring out how to deal with this new challenge.
 

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Ebay has gotten really bad with forcing sellers to take basically all returns regardless of what has happened
As a ebay seller im so glad this is not actualy true.
If anything ebay has gotten far better at not siding with buyers on stupid claims.

But id agree with you on ebay being like that 5-10 years ago, they used to side with buyer on anything pretty much.
Now they actualy shift the burden of proof onto buyer if listing does not have open returns.
 

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I recently received a bad HD from a seller. Contacted them instead of opening a case. Idiots tried their damnest to weasel out of taking it back. I would have asked for a replacement but after sampling their shit attitude I opened a case with eBay and got my money back.

These days I read a listing very carefully and look for hints that their might be a thief or a AO behind it. They've gotten more numerous since COVID19.

On the other hand there are many many excellent sellers who value their rep and do business accordingly. Most problems I've had were settled without eBay getting involved but a handful makes me glad eBay sides with the buyer.
 
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I recently received a bad HD from a seller. Contacted them instead of opening a case. Idiots tried their damnest to weasel out of taking it back. I would have asked for a replacement but after sampling their shit attitude I opened a case with eBay and got my money back.

These days I read a listing very carefully and look for hints that their might be a thief or a AO behind it. They've gotten more numerous since COVID19.

On the other hand there are many many excellent sellers who value their rep and do business accordingly. Most problems I've had were settled without eBay getting involved but a handful makes me glad eBay sides with the buyer.
Yes there are some real gems out there. A good chunk we buy directly from outside of ebay even after having good business workings. Nice to save some extra money and everything as well!
Sucks some of the bad companies out there. I know we have bought a few 15.36tb nvme's from aa really new ebay which was risky but worked out for us. Sometimes it's sketchy.
 
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