EU Supermicro 846 - €340 shipped in EU

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zeynel

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be aware , its a sas 3Gb/s SAS1 Backplane , with 2TB limit.
 
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Rand__

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Also old Psu and thus most likely old style pdb.
They are also not offering without innards this time, so too expensive for my taste. Was 290 previously just fyi.
 

i386

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I think they are not compatible with the platinum/titanium rated rated psus (including the sq ones)
 

i386

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I think they are not compatible with the platinum/titanium rated rated psus (including the sq ones)
 

Rand__

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Not even sure they can do gold.
Narrow and wide connector on the psu is the actual difference, most newer psu have wide I think
 

_alex

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Ah, ok - never noticed there is such a thing as wide and narrow connectors.

846/847 are quite rare / expensive (to ship), so would it work switching PDU's with newer or is it simply not worth at all ?
 

Rand__

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Well, to get it in shape you need
-backplane (you have one and so do I but it was not worth it to me)
-PDB (depends on how cheap you can get it - usually ~€50)
-2 PSUs Gold or better (lets say €40 each)

So its 290 + 130.

Last time they offered these with -A, Gold PSUs and new PDB for 500. They were willing to take out cpu/ram etc and accepted something around 350 for it - way better value imho.

They said they might get -A based boxes in August or early next year again so I'll be holding out for these :)
 

_alex

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Have lot's of PSU, too - all Gold or better.
But think just not worth, also with the time to replace PDU's.
Also, would need two to replace my 826's - so one more A-Backplane.

Maybe better to wait for newer Chassis with better PSU/PDU and A-Backplanes showing up.
 

zeynel

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and Rails also included, looks much better now. hmmmm o_O
 

Necrotyr

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The PDB in the server I received is the PDB-PT846-N24, don't know if that's new or old.

I'm guessing that it's the old one, am I correct @Rand__?
 

Rand__

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I think so.
My box from last time has the PDB-PT846-8824.
Also the -N24 is available quite cheap on Ebay, the 8824 is more expensive (and less items available)...
 

_alex

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Interesting, that i just ran into the issue with wide/narrow PDB ...
Tried to figure out differences with PSU's, just to think if i should get some 720W platinum or keep the gold.
Was about to try PWS-1K28P-SQ from my FatTwin in (older) SC825 and those appear to have wide connector and don't fit.

A bit odd that SM doesn't communicate on their PSU support Matrix, at least i found no way to see any difference between PWS-1K28P-SQ and PWS-721P-1R here:

Super Micro Computer, Inc. - Support | Power Supply Matrix

Or is there something i'm totally missing ? :D

Alex
 

Rand__

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Hm nothing I can see either.
Weird, but that also means that some gold PSUs have narrow connector, so not so clear cut as I thought