I got mine today. I have to say, even though their shipping cost was high, they did a very very nice job at packaging the server. however, even with that, the floor of the chassis was little bit bent in; which i bent back straight with my hands and it seems okay.
it is definitely a 216A backplane, and it was definitely a former GridIron systems machine; has their logo where the usual "supermicro" logo would be on the right side handle. for a 216A backplane, it came with an odd set of cables though... 5x SFF8087-to-SFF8087 cables, but the 6th cable is a SFF8087-to-SATAx4 breakout cable. From the way the cables are formed, it looks like they plugged those SATA to the motherboard, and had some other controller for the SFF8087. I'll probably need to get some SFF8087 cables to use with the setup I'm going for. The 2x PSUs are horrible 700W ancient ones that are not 80Plus at all; will need to replace those too / haven't looked at the PDB yet to see what PSUs I'll be able to fit in it. haven't powered it up yet either since i don't have a system to put in just yet.
EDIT: also going to add, in the pictures they show some systems with the inner rails attached, but mine came with no inner rails at all. not a big deal, i wasn't expecting rails, but i thought if it had inner rails, i can hunt for the outer rails and maybe save $10. also, as pictured, the fan shroud is totally missing, which probably isn't a big deal for a 2U system.
