OK I know bugger all about electrikery...
I found an old Supermicro (looks like CSE-745 chassis) but I believe maybe an older 7045B-8R gen chassis. ?? could be a 745 tho?
Currently it has a H8DM3-2 board in it. Gobbles a little bit of power.
Tho it has 2 x quad core cpu's and can take the 6 core HE ones cheaply. (eg 6 core cpu's can be had for $9.99 on ebay)
It's got 16gb Ram as well.
But here is my question
Currently it has 2 x PSU's in it.
One is a PWS-801-1R, other is a PWS-902-1R (yeah weird I know, but thats how it came)
Looking around I see the larger, but more efficient PSU's eg PWS-1K21P-1R for cheap (about $60 on ebay)
and looking at the test report for these newer PSU's
http://www.supermicro.com/products/powersupply/80PLUS/80PLUS_PWS-1K21P-1R.pdf
They look right in my sweet spot for cruising at 89 > 92 odd % efficiency at 242 > 604W @ 240V
Looking at the pic's of the backplane connector, and also Supermicro's specs on LxWxH etc... To me it looks like they would fit....
eg
my 701 looks like this
and the 902 looks like the 1K21P (solid on the RHS)
I am guessing the connectors on the RHS are Earths?
So physically I recon it would work.
Not that I plan to have this mother on 24 / 7..... probably more of a 3rd backup target...
Eg Nas 1 Backs up to Nas 2 Daily..... and maybe do a non deleting (until it's full) backup to this server every 3 days
Or maybe even swap the guts for the E5 Intel board I nabbed cheap and use it as my main Desktop for a while.
I like the chassis, it's a little noisy but already I am sourcing the quieter 4pin Supermicro fans to calm the beast.
If so then the more efficient (and maybe quieter) PSU will come into it's own.
Worth the $60 gamble? (plus a new power backplane if it lets the magic black smoke out?) to find out?
I found an old Supermicro (looks like CSE-745 chassis) but I believe maybe an older 7045B-8R gen chassis. ?? could be a 745 tho?
Currently it has a H8DM3-2 board in it. Gobbles a little bit of power.
Tho it has 2 x quad core cpu's and can take the 6 core HE ones cheaply. (eg 6 core cpu's can be had for $9.99 on ebay)
It's got 16gb Ram as well.
But here is my question
Currently it has 2 x PSU's in it.
One is a PWS-801-1R, other is a PWS-902-1R (yeah weird I know, but thats how it came)
Looking around I see the larger, but more efficient PSU's eg PWS-1K21P-1R for cheap (about $60 on ebay)
and looking at the test report for these newer PSU's
http://www.supermicro.com/products/powersupply/80PLUS/80PLUS_PWS-1K21P-1R.pdf
They look right in my sweet spot for cruising at 89 > 92 odd % efficiency at 242 > 604W @ 240V
Looking at the pic's of the backplane connector, and also Supermicro's specs on LxWxH etc... To me it looks like they would fit....
eg
my 701 looks like this
and the 902 looks like the 1K21P (solid on the RHS)
I am guessing the connectors on the RHS are Earths?
So physically I recon it would work.
Not that I plan to have this mother on 24 / 7..... probably more of a 3rd backup target...
Eg Nas 1 Backs up to Nas 2 Daily..... and maybe do a non deleting (until it's full) backup to this server every 3 days
Or maybe even swap the guts for the E5 Intel board I nabbed cheap and use it as my main Desktop for a while.
I like the chassis, it's a little noisy but already I am sourcing the quieter 4pin Supermicro fans to calm the beast.
If so then the more efficient (and maybe quieter) PSU will come into it's own.
Worth the $60 gamble? (plus a new power backplane if it lets the magic black smoke out?) to find out?