Hello there,
so I am planning to upgrade my freenas server to better hardware to save electricity and improve performance. I currently use a Supermicro 836TQ-R710B chassis with 16 hard drive bays and redundant 710W PSU.
Supermicro | Products | Chassis | 3U | SC836TQ-R710B
Motherboard is X7DBE+ and CPU's are dual Xeon L5420. HDD controller is M1015 flashed to IT.
New hardware will be Supermicro X9SCL motherboard with single Xeon E3-1220v2 and 32GB DDR3-1600 ECC UDIMM. I intend to reuse the chassis, backplane, redundant PSU's and M1015 controller.
Do you guys see a major show-stopper in swapping the internals of the existing server (mobo, CPU and RAM) for the new hardware? I think everything will be fine since the PSU have a 24 pin power connector and a 8pin CPU power connector compatible to 4 pin motherboards. The X9SCL has a 4 pin CPU power connector and the usual ATX 24 pin power connector.
I'd like also to reduce noise. These chassis are notorious for noise (fans). I intend to change the existing chassis 80mm fans (3 at the front between the backplane and CPU, and 2 at the back of the chassis) for Noctua 92mm REDUX fans. The X9SCL supports PWM fans but doesn't have IPMI (crap) so I am not sure how I will setup the fans speed from within the BIOS (full speed) or will they be controlled at the OS level? Should I even bother at all with upgrading these fans or can I make them quieter? Perhaps since the new CPU cooler will be active (with fan) the fans will mostly be to cool off the hard drives and motherboard and M1015 so maybe they can be quieter?
Finally, I intend to install a Noctua NH-D9L which is 110mm high... Do you think this will fit in a 3U chassis???
NH-D9L
Thanks!
so I am planning to upgrade my freenas server to better hardware to save electricity and improve performance. I currently use a Supermicro 836TQ-R710B chassis with 16 hard drive bays and redundant 710W PSU.
Supermicro | Products | Chassis | 3U | SC836TQ-R710B
Motherboard is X7DBE+ and CPU's are dual Xeon L5420. HDD controller is M1015 flashed to IT.
New hardware will be Supermicro X9SCL motherboard with single Xeon E3-1220v2 and 32GB DDR3-1600 ECC UDIMM. I intend to reuse the chassis, backplane, redundant PSU's and M1015 controller.
Do you guys see a major show-stopper in swapping the internals of the existing server (mobo, CPU and RAM) for the new hardware? I think everything will be fine since the PSU have a 24 pin power connector and a 8pin CPU power connector compatible to 4 pin motherboards. The X9SCL has a 4 pin CPU power connector and the usual ATX 24 pin power connector.
I'd like also to reduce noise. These chassis are notorious for noise (fans). I intend to change the existing chassis 80mm fans (3 at the front between the backplane and CPU, and 2 at the back of the chassis) for Noctua 92mm REDUX fans. The X9SCL supports PWM fans but doesn't have IPMI (crap) so I am not sure how I will setup the fans speed from within the BIOS (full speed) or will they be controlled at the OS level? Should I even bother at all with upgrading these fans or can I make them quieter? Perhaps since the new CPU cooler will be active (with fan) the fans will mostly be to cool off the hard drives and motherboard and M1015 so maybe they can be quieter?
Finally, I intend to install a Noctua NH-D9L which is 110mm high... Do you think this will fit in a 3U chassis???
NH-D9L
Thanks!