Got my three Mini-NAS today ... as promised, some notes ... and pictures (see links)
TL;DN
good hardware, very lovelessly assembled (it hurts to see if you like hardware!), clear scratches and traces, chassis partly defective
chassis and assembling
* sheet metal, aluminium die-casting
* clear signs of wear (all)
* partly damaged (one of the three I got has a broken hot-swap tray)
* holder for expansion slot warped (1 of 3)
* PSU _not_ screwed down at all! (1 of 3)
* front USB not attached to board (1 of 3)
* several screws are loose (>=2 of 3)
* chassis is not easy to disassemble
* chassis screwed together with force, even if it was not inserted correctly (2 of 3)
* additional OS HDD fixed with hot glue which did not hold (>=2 of 3)
* a riser-cable from boad to SAS controller card - fixed with hot glue, which was still in place
* completely useless warranty sticker, because it did not stick on two parts
to hardware
* LSI 9211-8i controller card
* Direct-Attach-Backplane SAS
* 4x s0-dimm a 8 GB ECC
* nice looking (not used yet) PWM fans (
GELID Solutions | SILENT 12 PWM)
* additional HDD is a 2.5" Toshiba with 120 GB (not 60 as described)
* board looks good and seem to work
firmware and settings
Firmware Revision : 01.76 ... 2.23 is the latest version available from SM
Firmware Build Time: 11/06/2014
BIOS Version : 2.0 ... see the build date. BIOS is updated to latest version
BIOS Build Time : 07/24/2017
* BMC management LAN is set to "Failover" (uses eth0 (?) if dedicated LAN has no cable)
* IPMI has standard supermicro default login (ADMIN/ADMIN)
* IPMI settings seem to be "default", no additional users
links
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Supermicro | Products | Motherboards | Atom Boards | A1SRi-2758F
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some pics
Update:
* Both backplanes in one chassis are completely broken. Two SAS connectors are wrenched off and some others are loose. I think if one would have put in HDDs and removed them again, more get broken.
picture
* all Boards work as expected. And I'm really lucky about that ...
* One of the IPMI had settings that cost me some headache. It was set to VLAN-ID 25 and thats why it didn't got an IP address via DHCP. Even a static IP per BIOS seems not to work. Had to boot an OS and used ipmitool to reset the VLAN id. And only ipmitool shows me, that there was a VLAN id set. Grrrr...