Fujitsu TX1320 M3 - Cheap low power server (barebone)

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Fresh installation of Fujitsu custom 7U3, one Intel P4610, one 900p, one S3700, E3-1245v6, 4x16G mem -> 31W idle in ESXi boot screen
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Just out of curiosity, where is your 10G NIC going when you use it as vSAN for your VM's?
 
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Not quite - I wish.

Its 205 per server - and 25 for all 5 shipped.

So a total of 1050 EUR :)

Which is A LOT more than I thought to spend on this when I started thinking about it because @Rand__ posted his message about this "cheap" chassis :)
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I would think 175€ would get you better stuff than 1 lowly xeon and two measly memory modules ... I am sure there are better deals to be made. Just need to find them ;)
Edit - or 170 if you add 5 more for shipping since thats likely more expensive then
Is that with tax or without?

- You can get new 2666 modules for €42 (inc tax)... that leaves you 80 bucks for cpus...
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- Ok, CPU prices are crazy. But you can get single/individual 1220v6's at ~€50 - that leaves a lot for shipping;)

Oh and I spent €145 on 5 of these and not a dime more yet. Not my fault you don't hoard all your old stuff;)





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Just out of curiosity, where is your 10G NIC going when you use it as vSAN for your VM's?
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Which 10G nic? I have a CX3 in the first x8 slot - which is why I'll be using vsphere 7 instead of 8.
 
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Rand__ said:
Which 10G nic? I have a CX3 in the first x8 slot - which is why I'll be using vsphere 7 instead of 8.
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Btw, thanks to the open ended pcie slot I also could run a x16 CX5 in the box (o/c at limited rate), but both the 2x25G card and the 2x100G cards draw ~6W idle more and are likely to get hotter too... but its an option for vsphere 8 - or when the CX3Pros dont do proper RoCEv2 after all...

Just fyi - without the CX3 the box idles at ~27-28.
 
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Btw, thanks to the open ended pcie slot I also could run a x16 CX5 in the box (o/c at limited rate), but both the 2x25G card and the 2x100G cards draw ~6W idle more and are likely to get hotter too... but its an option for vsphere 8 - or when the CX3Pros dont do proper RoCEv2 after all...

Just fyi - without the CX3 the box idles at ~27-28.
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28W idle box with this config: Intel P4610, one 900p, one S3700, E3-1245v6, 4x16G ?
 
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Rand__ said:
I would think 175€ would get you better stuff than 1 lowly xeon and two measly memory modules ... I am sure there are better deals to be made. Just need to find them ;)
Edit - or 170 if you add 5 more for shipping since thats likely more expensive then
Is that with tax or without?

- You can get new 2666 modules for €42 (inc tax)... that leaves you 80 bucks for cpus...
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- Ok, CPU prices are crazy. But you can get single/individual 1220v6's at ~€50 - that leaves a lot for shipping;)

Oh and I spent €145 on 5 of these and not a dime more yet. Not my fault you don't hoard all your old stuff;)
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Its 205 including VAT, but I might be wrong, since seller's math is different than normal math :)

And if its including VAT, then ex vat (Polish), we are down to 166,66 EUR

I doubt that can be found on ebay cheaper, since nowhere is a seller that have 5 units, and its the cheapest option. All sellers that have more than 1 item are more expensive, and those that are cheapest have 1 or max 2 items, and I would then buy 3-4 bundles of RAM/CPU and pay 3-4x shipping twice.

And yes, I wish I had a lot of old hardware I could just swap into these chassis, then I would have ordered 5 units already.

The other seller that sells for 20 EUR came back with an offer to ship 5 units in 3 packages, so I would save 2x shiping (50 EUR total saved + 5x5 EUR for chassis) - but their shipping is still 75 EUR for 5 units shipped total

But still nothing beats getting everything from one seller because of the many times shipping I have to pay.

EDIT: Actually it never occured to me that new ram might be cheaper than trying to buy it on ebay - that might change things around a bit :) Since I can definately find a seller outside of ebay that has 10x8GB modules - I will probably not be able to get a discount, but if I can get 10x at 1x shipping price it will probably be worth it.
 
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Still happy to offer to consolidate shipping for you if seller is from Germany and its worth shipping twice over to you directly...
I also have two 1220's left I think that I prolly have no memory for atm...
 
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Rand__ said:
Still happy to offer to consolidate shipping for you if seller is from Germany and its worth shipping twice over to you directly...
I also have two 1220's left I think that I prolly have no memory for atm...
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You are too kind :) But the only thing I think makes sense is the CPU's and they are okay, since I can get 5 shipped for 15 EUR total - and the chassis will be expensive for you as well to ship - unless you can ship it cheaper than 75 EUR for 5 units total.

RAM I think I need to find a german online reseller that sells the ECC UDIMM's and accept paypal, and preferably will sell ex VAT. Then I can combine the RAM into one package, and the I will be looking at:

(20x5)+75 = 175 EUR for 5 chassis shipped
410 EUR for 5 CPU's shipped - or 5x shipping +5xwhatever price I can find it at
420 (according to you) for 10 ECC UDIMM's+ shipping (15-20 EUR)
A grand total of 1025 EUR or 205 per unit

Which is still a lot more than what I imagined when I saw 25 EUR chassis :)
 
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And 55 bucks for caddies...

€42 was Mindfactory, + 6.90 shipping within Germany ( -Tax)
Shipping 5 Units was €50 iirc, that would leave space/weight for smaller parts, that would be 29x5 =145 (-Tax) + 50 = 195
Top 3 Ebay sellers (private/company mix) are at €60 shipped + my two = €280

Total 957 (-some tax) which is 191,40 ea.

But yeah, its far less enticing if you have to buy half the stuff at the current prices
 
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This could bring my total down to 856+shipping for the RAM (ex VAT) for 5 units shipped - we are getting there :) (if mindfactory can sell without VAT directly to me and not rip me off on shipping)
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Message from mindfactory after having registered:
" Auf Grund der aktuellen Situation können Lieferungen ausschließlich innerhalb Deutschlands erfolgen. Wir bitten Sie daher, eine deutsche Lieferadresse zu hinterlegen oder unseren Abholservice zu nutzen."

I am not sure that situation they mean - surely it cannot be COVID :)

So no dice :) at least not directly for me - strange though what situation that causes them not to be able to ship to Denmark - I buy a lot of stuff from Germany.
 
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