Cisco C240 M5 - 2x 6132 / 128gb / sas3508 - 240$

[clethbridge]

Ok fine all this talk made me order one. Anyone want two M4 gen for cheap?

 

[Koop]

Call me when these are $200 shipped

 

[Whaaat]

The average homelabber will rather pay 500-700 for a R730 than 300-500 for a G10 or M5

what is the reason paying 300 for M5 when it costs 100 and no one needs it anyway

 

[Cruzader]

what is the reason paying 300 for M5 when it costs 100 and no one needs it anyway

Because it will cost you more to take that one at 100 and upgrade it to the same spec?...
And its a C220 that goes for less overall also.

Id not be suprised to see that one expire without bids in the US market.

 

[Whaaat]

Because it will cost you more to take that one at 100 and upgrade it to the same spec?.

Yep, it depends on the presence of CBL-NVME-240SFF= cable in OP config. No nvme support without this cable and aftermarket options for $30 from amazon will not work

 

[grenskul]

The general homelab market will blindly search for dell or hp.

Cisco, quanta, gigabyte and huawei especialy get heavily discounted as they both commonly come out of scale deployments and have lower demand.

Especialy in Europe dell tends to get put at a massive premium, simply since people are willing to pay it.
The average homelabber will rather pay 500-700 for a R730 than 300-500 for a G10 or M5.

I mean some of those make sense . Cisco is jet engine tier and as far as I know with no way to fan control.

 

[Cruzader]

I mean some of those make sense . Cisco is jet engine tier and as far as I know with no way to fan control.

At the typicaly 10-40% cpu loads ive ran they have not been any louder than other 2U scalable models ive had.

But ive seen mentioned a few times that people have had fans ramping when running the risers full of non-cisco nvme/nics even at low cpu loads.

 

[Faster7]

Ok fine all this talk made me order one. Anyone want two M4 gen for cheap?

hah. What spec?

 

[clethbridge]

hah. What spec?

I’ll get back to you on that when I get home from my honeymoon!

 

[Cruzader]

I’ll get back to you on that when I get home from my honeymoon!

Going with the new M5?

 

[vbcurtis]

Ordered one, my first server chassis and first purchase caused by this forum.
Thanks for the, uh, inspiration!
It'll be mostly a compute box for some large-number factoring jobs I run as a hobby, replacing a HP Z620 dual-Xeon v2.

 

[Hal]

Not quite as great a deal but not bad: single cpu and 96gb ram, $289+50 ship. CISCO UCS-C240-M5SX C240 M5 24-bay SFF 1x Intel Gold 6132 96GB DDR4 12G SAS HBA | eBay

........ Condition: For parts or not working

 

[Hal]

It is good for EU prices but the delivery and the duty cost kill it (more than 500$)

 

[Cruzader]

It is good for EU prices but the delivery and the duty cost kill it (more than 500$)

If you are not in scandinavia the shipping to Europe will be too high to be worth doing yeah.

To get deals like this in Europe you will need some patience as they do not come nearly as often.
You can grab CTO scalable hosts below 200€ fairly regular, but specced units priced simular to US is really rare.

 

[clethbridge]

I’ve got mine and I can’t get the fans to come down from 100%. Going to do a firmware update on it and clean out any dust and see if that helps. Holy cow it’s loud at full blast!

 

[clethbridge]

I was being an idiot, I had non-Cisco drives in it and hadn’t set them as “unconfigured-good”

 

[Hal]

Confirm that with foreign pcie device the jet power on the turbo fan?

 

[clethbridge]

Yes, confirm that. You can apparently override it with “foreign” drives, but pci may be a different matter.

Power monitoring shows 365W at idle with fans at 100%!

 

[Whaaat]

Confirm that with foreign pcie device the jet power on the turbo fan?

Thanks goodness C220M5 doesn't have such a problem

Power monitoring shows 365W at idle with fans at 100%!

wow, does it need anchorage to stay stationary?

 

[clethbridge]

No, that’s my UCS5108 chassis: 2kw of fans!