Dell T20 server $199

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Dell has the T20 for $199 after using coupon VM2V8L3TTMZPLD
It has four internal 3.5" bays and apparently comes with the necessary drive caddies. It also has a C226 chipset, G3220 Haswell CPU, and 4GB of unbufferred ECC memory. I plan to make a NAS out of the one I ordered.

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Seems like a trend at the low end.

Decent processor but these only have one NIC onboard and no IPMI.

Still for the price if you didn't want IPMI not bad. You can BYO for about this price these days. I'm thinking $80 for chassis and power supply, $40 for 4GB and $90 for one of those AMD or Intel Celeron based embedded ITX boards.
 
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Jeggs101 said:
Seems like a trend at the low end.

Decent processor but these only have one NIC onboard and no IPMI.

Still for the price if you didn't want IPMI not bad. You can BYO for about this price these days. I'm thinking $80 for chassis and power supply, $40 for 4GB and $90 for one of those AMD or Intel Celeron based embedded ITX boards.
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You can't DIY cheap with an ECC board, trust me I've tried, cheapest C226 motherboard is $150 by itself. There are a handful of AM3+ boards that work but those cpus are too much of a power hog for a 24/7 appliance server.

Kindof similar to the lenovo TS140 deal, though that one was insane the short time it hit ~$300.
 
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On page 21 of the Technical guide here:

http://partnerdirect.dell.com/sites/channel/Documents/Dell-PowerEdge-T20-Server-Technical-Guide.pdf



EDIT: I guess that could mean it would support IPMI should one stick a Xeon in it though.
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Yep, if you swap the cpu to one that supports vPro should work:

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Going by the PDF this is even more similar to the lenovo TS140 that I thought. The rear port configuration is virtually the same, expansion slots similar, etc. They offer a E3-1225v3 configuration as well.
 
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i217 = on chipset NIC. You need an external controller to have kvm-over-ip and IPMI 2.0 functionality. vpro/ amt would be good enough if you did go the 1225 route.
 
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