I'm looking at a used server in a tower form factor.
It's a Xeon E5-2420 with 12GB of ECC DDR3 (goes to 96GB). It has 8x SAS connectors with matching 2.5" bays.
I'm currently using a core i5 4670 with 16GB of RAM, 2x 8TB drives in mirrored RAID, 1x 1TB spinning rust, and 128GB SSD for the OS. This machine is maxed out (was not a server initially) and what I'm most short of is the RAM.
My priorities are low noise (I don't have a separate room, it sits in the home office), low power usage, under 300-400 EUR without drives (I'm happy with the ones I have now)
Is that Xeon server a good deal for about 150-200 EUR in Europe? Will my SATA HDDs work with the SAS controller that's in the server? I don't know how to compare across Xeon and i5/7 lines, just that they seem to be from the same time and Xeon > i5/7 for server/ProxMox duty generally.
It's a Xeon E5-2420 with 12GB of ECC DDR3 (goes to 96GB). It has 8x SAS connectors with matching 2.5" bays.
I'm currently using a core i5 4670 with 16GB of RAM, 2x 8TB drives in mirrored RAID, 1x 1TB spinning rust, and 128GB SSD for the OS. This machine is maxed out (was not a server initially) and what I'm most short of is the RAM.
My priorities are low noise (I don't have a separate room, it sits in the home office), low power usage, under 300-400 EUR without drives (I'm happy with the ones I have now)
Is that Xeon server a good deal for about 150-200 EUR in Europe? Will my SATA HDDs work with the SAS controller that's in the server? I don't know how to compare across Xeon and i5/7 lines, just that they seem to be from the same time and Xeon > i5/7 for server/ProxMox duty generally.