Cheap Intel Dual E5-2620 system

[gregsachs]

INTEL EMC 1U SERVER 8 BAY 2 X 2.5GHZ E5-2620 SIX CORES,4X4GB,300GB SAS 2X750W | eBay
Needs Ram, but by far the cheapest entry into an E5 gen1/gen2 system I've seen, and intel MB and chassis.
They took an offer of $170+shipping really quickly.
I haven't gotten it yet, so can't confirm it is as described, but it should be nice upgrade to my supermicro 2x 5440 box.

 

[msg7086]

6027tr was at similar price range if you want 2 servers at once, and they should be quieter than this 1U.

 

[gregsachs]

6027tr was at similar price range if you want 2 servers at once, and they should be quieter than this 1U.

May have been, but all i've seen recently is barebones at $400+. I don't need dual boxes anymore; and this sits in basement so noise not a concern.

 

[Churchill]

6027tr was at similar price range if you want 2 servers at once, and they should be quieter than this 1U.

Where?

 

[msg7086]

Where?

Just want to make sure you understood that it's about $200 per dual E5 system, so 6027tr costs about $400 per 2 systems.

 

[wildpig1234]

does this take v2 cpus? not bad for a baseline dual cpu system, but what is the total number of ram slots?

 

[macrules34]

Looks like it might be an old Recover Point node, has a 4 port FC card it in.

 

[wildpig1234]

That means no then.... oh well..

 

[Jordan Perdue]

I just bought the second one. After about 20 minutes of digging the wrong model number/information around I was able to narrow the board down to this:

Intel® Server Board S2600GL Product Specifications

I'm quite sure thats the board - if I'm wrong please do point out how. V2 capable, 16x ddr3 slots, built in LSI 2208 based raid controller etc. For 215 shipped that's pretty decent.

Regards

 

[gregsachs]

I think you got hit by ebay "something like you were looking for". I'm about 99% sure it is an EMC Recovery Point Gen 5. Like I said, should be a big improvement over my 6015tw with 2x 2x 5440s.
Plus I know where I can get some free F/C drive shelves full of 300gb drives!
The original listing showed this:

 

[arglebargle]

Cripes, yeah I did; Sorry about that.

Nice score on these, that was a great buy.

 

[Dawg10]

Intel/Custom Server, 2x Xeon E5-2620 2.0GHz (12-Core Total), 16GB, No HDD_ | eBay

Here’s two more; 160 Loonies each. And I just bought a R420 and a RD330. Damn.

 

[wildpig1234]

let me know if someone actually upgrade the bios for v2 cpu

 

[Dawg10]

So I made a lowball offer, he countered, I countered. $120 Canadian, $85USD. This has be be the new floor entry price to E5-26xx.

This one has a RecoverPoint Gen 5 label but no FC card.

 

[gregsachs]

Nice! I should have mine in hand Thursday PM, hopefully get it powered up and start setting up. Going to move a couple small vms to it initially for testing. The canadian one also looks like stock intel bios, which is really nice to see!

 

[Dawg10]

Nice to have someone to compare notes with. Now I just gotta think up a good reason why I bought this...

 

[gregsachs]

Got mine yesterday, packed ok but not great. (The middle wasn't supported, so the screws that hold the front ~8" onto the rest of the chassis had loosened up.
Notes:
1: It is an intel s2600gz; the bios was password protected and I have updated the bios/bmc/etc to newest, except didn't get to the Intel/LSI latest yet.
2: I haven't yet gotten into the raid configuration; the SAS drive was configured as a virtual drive(degraded, of course), and it started booting into a unix environment. Last boot ~1000 days ago. I then wiped the virtual drive configuration, since I decided I didn't care what was on it.
System hangs when I try to get into webbios, but I can get into the preboot cli. Hopefully updating the LSI firmware fixes this.
3: Did have the q-logic 2564 fiber channel card, I pulled for now as it is a slow booting card.
4: I haven't gotten into the Intel web BMC yet, I can setup a user but login fails, although I can login via IPMI. Again, haven't had a chance to play with this.
5: It does have the LSI/Intel Raid card, but no BBU or raid key.
6: The intel LSI firmware revision is the same as the LSI 9265CV I have in another server, so should support JBOD.
7: One power cord included, no bezel, and the rack ears are not standard. Looks like intel rails are $25, so...
8: The power supplies are 80+ platinum supplies.
9: Much quieter than my 1u 2x 2x 5440 supermicro twin box, except at boot.

 

[Dawg10]

Last boot ~1000 days ago.

That's a good news/bad news thing... One of my R420's was a low mileage beauty, clean as a whistle inside and out; always wondered why it was decommissioned at a young age. Ran great until I tried to install a Mellanox card in riser 2 and discovered the riser had failed. The unit must have been removed from service and shelved rather than diagnosed and repaired. Change your CMOS battery...

Mine should be here today.

 

[wildpig1234]

Just thinking about it, i think the natex intel S2600cp a while back was a great deal still. a S2600CP2 MB with two 2670 v1 and 128GB ram all for around $500... That board was compatible with v2 cpu (OEM ones like 2696 v2 are excluded).

So if it's S2600 based, should be able to download the bios from intel to allow v2 support?

 

[gregsachs]

Already flashed with 2.0.006, from intel. Need to update with the 2.0.0.e06. I fully expect this to work with v2, but it may be a while until I test that unless someone sends me a couple! As far as I can tell, this is a normal s2600gl/gz system one straight from intel.