ok, so this would do?
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To expand on the previous post.
The 380e series (efficient series) takes the E5-24XX line of cpus. Has less ram slots (16) lower power usage.
The 380p series (performance series) takes the E5-26xx line of cpus. Has more Ram slots (24) higher power usage.
As you indicated that the power usage and heat was a factor I steered you towards the 380e series. I use both at work the 380e for filers and ceph clusters the 380ps for VM and compute servers in a hyper-converged cluster.
BeTeP replaces the drive cages and if you good with hardware its not that hard to do. However I prefer buying the mostly assembled as Its guarantee to arrive working (assuming you buy from a good ebay seller) Where as if you buy parts and put in the CPU, ram etc and it doesn't boot.. your left holding the bag guessing which parts are bad and the 30day clock running on returns.
the 380p's will be louder than the 380e's but have almost double the ram capacity (I usually run 128gig in my 380e's and its cheap)
Anyway thats my thoughts. I think you'll be happy with either one and sounds like BeTeP and I can both help you out with any questions getting it up and running.
Terry
p.s. I run TrueNas on most all of filers without any issues. all of the 380 series has 3 pci slots minimum with 1 cpu and 6 pci slots with both cpu's
that are empty to use. The onboard nics (usually a 4x1 gig or 2x10gig) don't count in that number.
I always turn off the onboard raid controller in bios. And run a lsi card straight to the drive backplane (usualy using the cables that are already inside)
Then I stick a nvme slot card in to run as cache and a second (dual m2. sata drive card) in the other slot (run mirrored 256g samsung sata m2's as the boot device)
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Low Power - 64gig 4 1 gig nics and 3 open pci slots.
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