Greetings fellow home server builders!
I have finally settled on a (mostly) final config at home for my stuff (hopefully)
* Another big update Sept 8th 2019 *
SSD special - $30 - 2x (yes, a pair) of 100GB SATA EMLC SSDs 15mm thick, with PLP, great for mirrored boot drives, add more for only $10 each shipped
LSI/3WARE Hardware RAID special - $25 shipped (no cache/BBU) / $35 shipped with cache card / BBU - 9260-8i, 9260-4i, 9750-8i, 9750-8e, etc.
LSI / Avago / Broadcom SAS2008 controllers flashed to the latest P20.00.07 IT mode firmware with two cables and BOTH tall and short brackets for $60 shipped!
Other than the SSDs above, my drives, network stuff, and Mad Scientist Corner are in this thread since it all won't fit in this one:
FS/FT SFBayZFS's hard drives for sale - 2-5TB, 2.5, 3.5 HGST, Toshiba, Seagate, WD Red, + DOMs etc
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Generally, I keep making home storage servers for FreeNAS / ZFSonLinux designed for low power/heat/noise, but also dabbling in Kubernetes clusters. Most of my extra stuff is LSI controller cards, Supermicro motherboards / chassis, 80+ power supplies, and related stuff.
Local pickup in the SF Bay area CA is great, but if you're not here, I can easily ship Priority Mail flat rate for smaller items at USPS rates. For servers and larger items, I like Fedex Ground - a well packed 3U or 4U server ranges from $50-60ish on the West Coast to $100ish on the East Coast.
I am also happy to build/combine/reconfigure most stuff to meet your needs, just LMK what you are going for!
New Xeon D section!
I have finally settled on a (mostly) final config at home for my stuff (hopefully)
* Another big update Sept 8th 2019 *
SSD special - $30 - 2x (yes, a pair) of 100GB SATA EMLC SSDs 15mm thick, with PLP, great for mirrored boot drives, add more for only $10 each shipped
LSI/3WARE Hardware RAID special - $25 shipped (no cache/BBU) / $35 shipped with cache card / BBU - 9260-8i, 9260-4i, 9750-8i, 9750-8e, etc.
LSI / Avago / Broadcom SAS2008 controllers flashed to the latest P20.00.07 IT mode firmware with two cables and BOTH tall and short brackets for $60 shipped!
- $60 - LSI SAS2008 9210-8i or 9220-8i M1015 (top ports) or PERC-H310 or 9211-8i (end ports w/ 2x SFF-8087 to SFF-8087 or quad SATA breakout * I am running low on these
- $60 - LSI SAS2008 9200-8e w/ 2x 1M or 0.5M external cables with SFF-8088 on both ends
Other than the SSDs above, my drives, network stuff, and Mad Scientist Corner are in this thread since it all won't fit in this one:
FS/FT SFBayZFS's hard drives for sale - 2-5TB, 2.5, 3.5 HGST, Toshiba, Seagate, WD Red, + DOMs etc
***
Generally, I keep making home storage servers for FreeNAS / ZFSonLinux designed for low power/heat/noise, but also dabbling in Kubernetes clusters. Most of my extra stuff is LSI controller cards, Supermicro motherboards / chassis, 80+ power supplies, and related stuff.
Local pickup in the SF Bay area CA is great, but if you're not here, I can easily ship Priority Mail flat rate for smaller items at USPS rates. For servers and larger items, I like Fedex Ground - a well packed 3U or 4U server ranges from $50-60ish on the West Coast to $100ish on the East Coast.
I am also happy to build/combine/reconfigure most stuff to meet your needs, just LMK what you are going for!
New Xeon D section!
- $trade or $700 - Hynix 128GB 8Rx4 PC4-2400U ECC LRDIMM for Xeon D 2100 series boards - it works great in my one X11SDV board, selling because I found a matched set of Samsung before I could find any more of the same type. I would happily trade this for 128GB of DDR4 in another configuration: 4x32GB ECC Reg or 2x 64GB ECC LRDIMMs for Xeon D 1500 series boards, 8x 16GB of 4x 32GB unbuffered ECC DDR4, partial trade and cash is OK too.
- $600 - Supermicro SYS-E300-8D network appliance mini barebones w/ D1518 in a X10SDV-TP8F, used only for memtest All parts, but the original box is missing.
- $900 - X10SDV-12C-TLN4F brand new in box with all parts, accessories, I'll memtest it before sending it (I accidentally ordered the 10G base-T version, I wanted the SFP+ version)
- I have a couple of other Xeon D 1500 series boards I am willing to sell/trade, trying to make a final decision on which to deploy...
- $220 - 5x 3.5 bay HP Microserver N54L 2.2 GHz w/8GB ECC RAM, locking trayless hotswap for 5th drive, updated AHCI BIOS shipped in original box. Add $50 for 16GB ECC RAM
- $560 - 12-bay trayless Antec Nine Hundred tower
- $560 - 15-bay CoolerMaster tower w/ 3x Supermicro CSE-M35TQ , add $70 for Noctua fans - 2x 120mm, 3x 92mm
- $640 - 15-bay trayless AzzA Solano 1000 tower
- $840 - 20-bay Antec Twelve Hundred tower w/4x Supermicro CSE-M35TQ, add $100 for Noctua fans - 3x 120mm, 4x 92mm
- $320 - SC826 12x 3.5" bay 2U w/ TQ direct backplane, stock Ablecom PSUs, X9SCM-F, LSI SAS2008 controller, Xeon e3-1220, 8GB ECC unbuffered as 4x 2GB, +$120 for 32GB instead, or add $40 for X8DTE-F, 2x L5640 40W 4C/8T, 24Gb ECC Reg instead of X9SCM-F/8GB
- $460 - SC836 16x 3.5" bay 3U w/ SAS2 expander backplane, 1280W gold PSUs, same mobo/controller/CPU/RAM options as above
- $600 - SC847 36x 3.5" bay 4U w/ SAS2 expander backplanes, 1400W gold PSUs, same options as above
- $300 - SC847 36x 3.5" bay 4U w/ damaged right handle mounts, no trays included, otherwise OK - your choice of direct "A" backplanes or SAS2 expander backplanes, 2x 1400W PSU (I can add a motherboard or make it a JBOD if you like)
- $60 - BPN-SAS-826A direct SAS2/SAS3 w/ 3x SFF-8087 (12-bay 2U)
- $60 - BPN-SAS2-847-EL1 (rear 21-bay SAS2 expander backplane for 45-bay JBOD, 2 avail)
- $220 - BPN-SAS3-847-EL2 (double SAS3 expander rear 20-bay JBOD backplane, 2 avail, or I will happily trade 1:1 for the single expander version!)
- $100 - X10SLL-F
- $140 - X10SLH-F (all 6 SATA ports are SATA3)
- $200 - X10SL7-F with LSI 2308 onboard flashed to P20.00.07 for 14 direct drive ports!
- $80 - i3-4160T low power 2C/4T 35W 3.1 GHz
- $90 - i3-4170T or i3-4360T low power 2C/4T 35W 3.2 GHz
- I have some Xeons as well, need to check
- $60 - X9SCL-F great 3-slot C202 board for FreeNAS, PFSense, etc
- $70 - X9SCM-F C204 and 4 PCIe slots, 2x SATA3 ports, 4x SATA2 ports
- $15 - Pentuim G62oT low power 2c/2t Pentium sandy bridge +$10 for new in box w/ cooler
- $20 - Celeron G1610, G1620 2c/2t (I have 1 of each, these definitely support ECC properly)
- $30 - i3-2100T 2.5GHz 2c/4t low power 35W
- $35 - i3-2120T 2.6GHz 2c/4t low power 35W
- $35 - Xeon e3-1220 or e3-1225 4c/4t
- I have faster Xeons as well, and a few low power ones
- $60 - 16GB 2x 8GB ECC Unbuffered 1333 or 1600 (Crucial/Micron or Hynix) or $120 for 32GB
- $15 - Xeon L5630 2.13-2.4GHz Low power 40W 4C/8T CPU
- $20 - Xeon L5640 2.13-2.4GHz Low power 60W 6C/12T CPU
- $25 - Xeon X5675 3.06-3.46GHz 95W 6C/12T CPU
- $15 - Supermicro 2u P0038P passive heatsink
- $25 - Dynatron 2u active heatsink
- $85 - X8DTE-F motherboard - newer hex-core compatible version w/ latest BIOS, IPMI
- $110 - X8DT6-F motherboard - newer hex-core compatible version w/ latest BIOS, IPMI, integrated LSI SAS2008 controller!
- $45 - Dell PERC H310 flashed to 9211-8i - end connectors, works great in Supermicro boards without the pin mod that some non-server boards require
- $45 - LSI 9210-8i same configuration as the M1015 (top ports)
- $35 - LSI 9200-8e 2 external ports
- $60 - LSI 9212-4i4e SAS2 2008 internal 4 sata connectors are on top edge of card
- $50 - LSI 9200-16e in original box if you want it (4 avail) Full height card
- $70 - LSI 9207-8i / 9217-8i or Supermicro AOC-S2308L-L8e PCIe 3.0 SAS2308 card
- $40 - HP SAS2 expander card flashed to latest firmware
- $80 - Intel SAS2 expander RES2SV240 used with both brackets
- $120 - Intel SAS2 expander RES2SV240 new in box with 6 cables and both brackets
- $180 - Intel SAS2 expander RES2CV360 used, no cables
- $100 - HP H240 controller 2x SFF-8087 internal port SAS3 controller, bracket choice
- $80 - HP H241 controller 2x SFF-8644 external ports w/short bracket
- $90 - Dell 0T93GD 2 SFF-8644 external ports, LP bracket, LSI 3008 chip, probably crossflashable - 2 avail
- $5 - PWS-801-1R or PWS-902-1R non-80+, noisy, but cheap, narrow connector, great spares!
- $20 special - PWS-1K41P-1R used 80+ Gold PSU, wide connector can be dremeled down for use with common PDBs
- $50 - PWS-920P-1R used 80+ Platinum PSU, narrow connector, 4 avail
- $90 - PWS-920P-SQ used quiet 80+ Platinum PSU - narrow connector to fit all PDBs, 6 avail
- $5 - Supermicro 3.5" drive tray sturdy aluminum for 743/745 M35 5-in-3, etc. with screws
- $4 - Supermicro 2.5" tray with screws
- $0.5 - 3.5" or 2.5" dummy drive beige plastic, or free with tray purchase until I run out
- $25 shipped special - CSE-PTJBOD-CB1 - JBOD power controller motherboard replacement w/ blank backplate!
- $8 - RSC-RR1U-E8 - PCIe x8 riser for Supermicro 1U cases
- $5 - Supermicro chassis front panel breakout cable for non-supermicro boards
- $6 - SFF-8087 SAS -> 4x SATA breakout cable (I have several types, LMK what you need)
- $8 - SFF-8087 internal cable
- $8 - SFF-8088 external cable 0.3M
- $15 - SFF-8088 external cable 1M
- $12 - SFF-8643 SAS3 -> 4x locking SATA breakout cables - 3 left
- $20 - Supermicro internal 8087 to external 8088 cable/bracket single port tall bracket, -$5 for short bracket
- $30 - Supermicro internal 8087 to external 8088 cable/bracket double port tall, -$5 for short bracket
- $40 - Supermicro internal 8087 to external 8088 cable/bracket quad port special bracket as used in 837 and 847 JBOD units
- I have several HDTV tuner cards and Popcorn hour video streamers
- $80 - Canopus/Grass Valley ADVC-100 1394/Firewire - rock solid A/V/S-video capture device w/ locked audio, great for capturing/archiving analog video of all kinds
- 8TB/10TB 5400/5700 RPM WD/HGST or WD My Book / EasyStore
- 1.6TB and larger SSDs
- BPN-SAS3-216EL1-N4
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