Making Bacon - or the Parting Out of the Pig

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PigLover

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More pieces finally available...

Intel Xeon X5550. 2.66Ghz, Quad Core, Hyperthreading, 95W TDP, Socket LGA1366, SLBF5
2 Available.
These are retail box Xeons. Not ES! Original box included.
CPU only. EP-series Xeon do not have a stock cooler.
Includes shipping to USA destinations (USPS Priority Mail - no PO boxes)
$150 each or both for $275

OCZ Vertex 60GB SSD
6 available.
These are original Vertex series SSDs. Indilinix based controller.
All six are tested and working with good performance. Can't vouch for SSD life remaining.
Upgraded to most current firmware (1.7) which includes advanced garbage collection feature. GC makes these SSDs suitable for Raid without TRIM.
Shipped with original OCZ packaging.
Includes shipping to USA destinations (USPS Priority Mail - no PO boxes)
$30 each, $25 each in lots of 2 or more

Supermicro X8DA+-o Motherboard. Dual socket 1366 for X55xx/X56xx Xeon
Lots of PCIe: 2 PCIe 2.0 x16, 4 PCIe 2.0 x8, 1 PCIe 2.0 x4
Supports up to 288 GB DDR3 Registered ECC memory
Dual Gbe using Intel 82576 (ESXi compatible)
IEEE 1394a
Note: This is the NON-IPMI version of the motherboard. There is no IPMI port.
This is a large MB - EE-ATX - larger than standard ATX (13.68" x 13")
Includes shipping to USA destinations (USPS Priority Mail - no PO boxes)
$200 obo (reasonable offers only please)

Areca 1261ML 16 port SATA-II raid with 2GB cache and BBU
16 port SATA-II Raid on 4x internal 8087 mini-SAS connectors
Based on Intel IOP341 ROC
Supports Raid 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60
Has out-of-band management via dedicated ethernet port
Will include 2x 8087 to SATA forward breakout cables and 2x 0.5m 8087-8087 cables
Note that this is a true SATA controller - not compatible with SAS expanders.
This is a great match for older, SATA-II SSDs - great match for the 6 OCZ Vertex listed above!
I cannot confirm support for > 2TB drives - buyer responsible to confirm if required
Includes shipping to USA destinations (USPS Priority Mail - no PO boxes)
$275 obo (reasonable offers only please)

Intel Pro/1000 ET Quad Gbe server NIC (E1G44ET) $175
(includes both full and half height brackeets)

Intel I5-661 3.33Ghz Dual Core w/Hyperthreading, Intel Graphics, LGA1156
$120
(includes original box and never-used stock cooler)

16GB (4 x 4GB) Patriot Viper Extreme DDR3 1866 (9-10-9-27) 4GB DIMM PXQ316G1866ELQK
$90

Gigabyte GA-H57M-USB3 LGA-1156 Motherboard $40
The rest is still coming...

My video encoding workstation - BigPig - has served me well. At the time it was built it was about the only way I could get the performance I needed for my hobby sports-video production work. How quickly times change. My last kid is finishing HS and the video work has slowed dramatically. Probably only one or two production pieces left until I "retire" (for now). Now a single I5-3470k meets my immediate needs. I'm making some changes as around my desk and the little monster has to go.

Coming soon...probably early Jan...the following parts will be available. Serious expressions of interest via PM might encourage me to move along a bit faster. No prices yet, its "make offer" until I get the thing torn down.

  • 2x Xeon X5550 CPUs. 2.66Ghz quad core with Hyperthreading. 130watt TDP. Dual-channel QPI for dual-socket motherboards.
  • 6x Kingston 4GB DDR3 1333 Registered ECC 9-9-9-24 (I'll have to wait for a pull to get the exact part numbers)
  • Supermicro X8DAH+- dual 1366 MB. This is the non-IPMI version.
  • Big-Chieftec extra-height tower case (Cheiftec BRAVO BA-01B-B-B Black). Shipping will be a hassle...
  • Areca 1261ML 16 port SATA-II raid with 2GB cache and BBU (its old - but its still decent for spinny disks - sucks for SSD). I'll include 2 8087-4x SATA forward breakout cables with this.
  • 4x OCZ Vertex 60GB. These are SATA-II Vertex 1 SSDs, upgraded to firmware rev 1.7 and working perfectly. Lots of people hate OCZ but I've got 9 of these original SSDs and except for a couple of "infant mortality" RMAs I've had no troubles with them. Not the fastest...but a slow SSD beats a spinny disk every time. Perfect for a small Raid-0 on MB connectors (well backed up, of course!).

I've also got 12 Hitachi 2TB drives in the beast. They are the 7200RPM models - 10x 7k2000 2TB and 2x 7k3000 2TB. These might stay to build out a backup file server. But for the right price everything is fungible :). There's one more Seagate 2TB drive too (5900 RPM Barracuda LP) that I'd gladly part with - but with this drive's reputation I'm not sure who'd want to buy it.

After I get it torn down everything will be on offer here for at least 30 days before I give up and move it over to fleabay.
 
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PigLover

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I'll be tearing it down over the Christmas-New years week...won't post prices until I can actually ship as markets ranges change fast.
 

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Coming soon. Had to deal with some "real life" (broken water heater, water seep from recent rain, etc.). Still planning on tearing it down and listing the parts...just a bit delayed.
 

PigLover

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sorry to hear that dude. hope all is well now
All is well. Its just life. You deal with it and move on...

On the upside - the broken water heater forced me to clean out most of the garage, including clearing out the space I had long planned for properly racking my servers and network gear. So I've ordered the rack and have yet another project to do.
 

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Big thanks to PigLover for great service with the purchase of the mobo/cpu/ram combo listed above! I could not be happier (well, maybe if it was free....)! Fast shipping and great items!
 

Patrick

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Those X5550's should work in the XS23-TY3 as they are spec'd for 95w CPUs.