Hi!
I'm located in SW Europe right now and I have to rebuild my homelab. Currently I have a Asus Z9PED8-WS motherboard housed in a massive Lian Li case with two E5-2600 v2 CPUs and 64GB ECC. I want to move it to my new 60cm rack cabinet, in a proper enclosure that maximizes storage options for combined SSD and HDD (purpose is VM host + compilation farm and other functions).
I also have a X8DTL-iF from SM, with two 5600s Westmere CPUs. Currently no ECC ram for that one, and I would like to also maximize storage options, since I'm not sure what final purpose I will give to this one. Perhaps secondary NAS or research for assorted stuff.
I'm quite stuck with case selection, since I measured the distance between posts (I moved the posts to bring the front closer to the door, which works but means I have to watch out for clearance with accessories like cable management covers, since the rings sticking out past 6cm will hit the door and I don't have my 3d printer ready to make my own rings to fit).
So far I looked into these ones:
I'm located in SW Europe right now and I have to rebuild my homelab. Currently I have a Asus Z9PED8-WS motherboard housed in a massive Lian Li case with two E5-2600 v2 CPUs and 64GB ECC. I want to move it to my new 60cm rack cabinet, in a proper enclosure that maximizes storage options for combined SSD and HDD (purpose is VM host + compilation farm and other functions).
I also have a X8DTL-iF from SM, with two 5600s Westmere CPUs. Currently no ECC ram for that one, and I would like to also maximize storage options, since I'm not sure what final purpose I will give to this one. Perhaps secondary NAS or research for assorted stuff.
I'm quite stuck with case selection, since I measured the distance between posts (I moved the posts to bring the front closer to the door, which works but means I have to watch out for clearance with accessories like cable management covers, since the rings sticking out past 6cm will hit the door and I don't have my 3d printer ready to make my own rings to fit).
So far I looked into these ones:
- 19" Server Gehäuse 4HE / 4U - IPC-E450 - nur 45cm kurz IPC-E450
- Server Case UK - In-Win IW-R400-01 - 4U Rack Server Chassis w/ Lockable Door and Tower Upgrade Option
- Chenbro - Products
- 19" Server- & Storagegehäuse
- https://www.inter-tech.de/en/support/downloads/pdf/englisch/869-data-sheet-3u-30248/file
- https://www.inter-tech.de/en/support/downloads/pdf/englisch/1097-data-sheet-4u-4408/file
- https://www.inter-tech.de/en/support/downloads/misc/871-technical-drawing-3u-30248/file
- (I can add some more later)
- Is this sensible or I could save money/future proof the design by selling the Z9PED8-WS and getting, say, a Supermicro board that supports the E5-2600 v2 CPU series and has a smaller form factor?
- Would it make sense to use the Westmere platform since I have the CPUs and MB (which I paid for locally... that was not cheap). I have a EVGA SR-2 Classified too that I intended to sell, to cover up some costs, since it fits nowhere beyond the Lian Li case, and I would not use it any more.
- Space is limited, otherwise I would perhaps get a new case for my Ryzen desktop build, and then just use the Lian Li case to house the Z9PED8-WS and have a tower chassis server, but this defeats the point of buying the cabinet (which I will use for SDR and RF r&d too, so there will be other rackmounted homemade devices connected there).