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Duplicate spam post? Why would you ever buy this when newer generation, better equipped systems are $40 more? ZT SYSTEMS 1U SR-00847, 2 *Intel Xeon E5-2620 6-CORE CPU, 2.00 GHz, 64GB RAM, | eBay
Barebones 1366 at $95 when ram included 2011 is $150.
Barebones 1366 at $95 when ram included 2011 is $150.
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It looks like lots of people are still buying R610's. Look at the top ebay guy. He has sold a ton.
Probably because those sold out in a ridiculously short amount of time once the auction got posted here, then 10 got relisted because they were cancelled, then 3 got relisted either because some were cancelled or they got them working (someone had a few cancelled from their order due to them not working). Also because there's precious little documentation on those servers, no support, no BIOS/FW updates, no drivers, and they won't run Windows or Windows Server (at least 2012 R2 or 2016).
Don't get me wrong, I bought one, but I've been watching eBay for a year for dual 2011 server deals and ones like that don't come up very much.
I was referring to those ZT Systems E5-2620 servers won't run them, not the R610s. I have no doubt at all that R610s will run Windows Server. The reason the ZT Systems ones won't is because they have a wonky custom BIOS and Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, and Windows 10 all bluescreen before the first screen of setup even comes up throwing the error "ACPI_BIOS_ERROR"
There's no BIOS updates or FW updates available from ZT Systems, nor that I can find for the Inventec B800 motherboard in them. There have been discussions on the homelab subreddit about ZT Systems servers, and they are usually custom ODM machines with custom BIOS that are purpose built for one thing, and are missing ACPI tables and such in the BIOS that would be there on a 'normal' server. I suspect that is the case here.
That machine is purpose built, it literally doesn't even have anything besides a 10/100 mgmt port and a single SFP+ port, with no riser and some random PSU, onboard SATA3(most likely SATA2)ports, no thanks.
