EU Supermicro 847 36 bay chassis with board, HBAs, NIC, etc - £350

[BlueFox]

Appears to be UK only (though it says to contact them for shipping quotes outside there, so maybe the rest of the EU will be in luck), but this seems like quite a good deal considering a dual 1366 board, 5 x 8 port SAS HBAs, and a NIC are included. Seller has 5 total with some using branded drive trays across 2 listings. Original box and rails included too.

Coraid SRX4200-R2 Ethernet SAN Array. 36 Bay (black/silver caddies)
Coraid SRX4200-S2 36 bay Ethernet SAN array - Silver caddies

 

[fvanlint]

Thanks for the find, I bought one shipped to the Netherlands.

 

[ecosse]

I hope someone buys these soon, I already have bought 3 chassis this month but I would really like this!

 

[Rahvin9999]

The cases are Supermicro SC847A-R1400LPB.
Passive backplanes with SFF-8087 connectors.
The controller cards that are in there now are SAS1/Sata2 so if you want to use disks larger then 2TB you will have to replace the controller cards. Originally, they probrably, came with AOC-SASLP-MV8 cards.
Since the backplanes are passive upgrading to 6Gb or 12Gb will be easy.

 

[sthsep]

Thanks for the find, I bought one shipped to the Netherlands.

How much was the shipping?

 

[fvanlint]

How much was the shipping?

€90 ish

 

[frogtech]

really wish this was in the US, at the mercy of exchange rates and int. shipping...

 

[michathe]

just bought two. According datasheet the R2 version has 10gbit nics even Base-t so i can't resist. I think i will swap my SC846 chassis now

(Schipping to germany was £80)

 

[Fritz]

You Euros have been hitting the jackpot lately.

 

[skelleton]

whish this came soon just bought a new xcase 24 bay for almost the same price because I couldn't find something decent.

 

[_alex]

Damn, this is really tempting.
Any idea what the Board / CPU / RAM is ?
Wish they had the S2 (Dual SFP+) Version, too ...

 

[michathe]

I think the Board is a Supermicro X8DTH-iF, One Quadcore, and some Ram.

Mine are on the way i´ll let you know how they are configured.

There is a option for one with SFP+ but it is expensiveCORAID SRX4200-S2 EtherDrive | CSE-847 | 36B 10GbE 4U SAN Storage |QC Xeon X5550

 

[_alex]

Well, that's too much, also no Trays.
I wonder if it would be a an option to replace with an X9DR7-LN4fF currently in an 826.

Then drop:
- the 10Gbe
- one of the adapters and put the drives of if to the onboard 2308

So 2 pci slots should be free for two connectx-2 => decent networking

Maybe also replacing the A - Backplane in the back with an SAS2 could be interesting ...

Still tempted to just grab one and then see how to make the best of it ....

 

[Mirabis]

Anyone tried a Best Offer?

Looks interesting, costs about €100,- shipping... but also received my HGST 60Bay a few days ago... hmmm.

Will swap out the internals for my X10-DRL-i , so prob have to resell the internals and keep the chassis

 

[_alex]

I just put a reasonable BO, one competing ...

Not sure about the caddies, those with black, unbranded caddies come without rails, what is sad ...

 

[_alex]

BO won't work, they wrote they have lot`s of interest and asked to purchase at list price ....
Now only 1 left .... couldn't resist *doh

 

[michathe]

I have asked if he could make a better deal but no only if i would by all 4.

But 550€ including shipping for that System is totally ok for me

 

[Mirabis]

BO won't work, they wrote they have lot`s of interest and asked to purchase at list price ....
Now only 1 left .... couldn't resist *doh

Meh... okay.. that's €557.53 incl. shipping gonna let it shoot ;p

 

[_alex]

Yes, price is still very good.
Did you get the silver caddies with rails or black without rails ?
Still not certain if it`s not cheaper to buy rails and not 36 (minus what i have left) caddies.
Best would be if the silver-plastics stuff could be removed from them, so that they are back in there original state without branding ...

 

[Mirabis]

Yes, price is still very good.
Did you get the silver caddies with rails or black without rails ?
Still not certain if it`s not cheaper to buy rails and not 36 (minus what i have left) caddies.
Best would be if the silver-plastics stuff could be removed from them, so that they are back in there original state without branding ...

I actually like the branding hehe.. the silver looks way better than the black.

I'm still on the fence.. that's €2000,- of expenses in 1 month hehe