Tower to Rack Conversion recommendations

[Mirabis]

Hello,

I'm a new member here... but man oh man... this forum increases my expenses.. i keep buying stuff xD

So my current server exists of:

• 2x E5-2650v3
• 128GB DDR4 ECC Registered Ram (2133Mhz)
• Windows 2012 R2 Datacenter 64bit (Being a student gives nice discounts) | Hyper-V
• 6x WD Red 3TB (Pooled with 4x Sandisk in Parity Storage Spaces)
• 4x WD Red 4TB (Tiered Mirror with Sandisks for VM's / Single (non raid) for movies)
• 4x Sandisk 64GB(SSD) ( 2 SSD + HDD in 1 5.25")
• 2x Sandisk Utlra II 250GB (SSD) (velcro'd)
• 1x Kingston UltraNow V300 120GB (Boot)
• IBM M1015 in IT Mode
• X10DRL-i Supermicro board
• Define R5

Spoiler

bit of an old pic... now it has Noctua fans but

I've mostly been using it to house VM's (wordpress, redis, huginn,emby,plex,etc) and some of them in docker containers ( inside my Ubuntu VM's).

So last month I tried to convert my 2012 R2 to 2016 to get Windows Containers and all things went south from there... VM's corrupted... disk fail... lost backups... ended up ditching Storage Spaces... bought StableBit Drivepool afterwards.. but my VM's don't seem to like it... + somehow they felt slow.

Going forward:

I'm about to purchase:

• EU - HGST 4U SAS3 12GB/s Storage Enclosure 60 bays £299 60Bay .... (cuz i switched case 3 times last years to house more HDD's... better future proof I guess). [ ] Purchased
• IBM ServeRaid M5210 [X] Purchased
• 2x QSFP+ -> SFF-8643 [X] Purchased
• 3x HGST 8TB He (512e) SAS disk [X] Purchased

and would like to convert my Define R5 to a rack unit as well ( low priority... can wait.. as i don't have space for a cabinet / can't find a cabinet that deep... lol.

Possible Rack Chassis:

• I found a nice deal for an Supermicro SuperChassis SC933T-R760 but am not sure if it is compatible (not listed on the X10DRL-i page) for €115.
• SC813MTQ-350CB at €299 ( incl 2x E5629 / 24 GB mem / X8DTL-iF)
• - Super Micro Computer, Inc. Those seem interesting too... 2.5" disks, but with the 60 JBOD for HDD's .. i can put the SSD tier on the top and the HDD's in the jbod... (if i need that many ssds.hmm)

TLDR: Any chasses u can recommend me as replacement for Define R5?
PS: Prefer silent....

 

[Patrick]

I need to run, hopefully others have input here.

I would highly suggest 4U if you want something quiet. That will help you in terms of being able to use 4U coolers. Most of the large consumer tower heatsinks do not fit 4U cases.

 

[Mirabis]

I currently use 2x Noctua NH-U9S but even that was a tight squeeze as the CPU's are close to one another.

Been watching two sellers (pickup range), one offering:

• - 3U 933 Black for €150,- incl. hardware

Spoiler

- 3U Supermicro 933 chassis, met 15x 3.5" sata hotswap bays en 3 voedingen.
- Supermicro X7DBE moederbord
- 1 Xeon 5110 processor
- 4GB memory.
- Supermicro SAT2-MV8 8 poorts Sata/SAS controller. 8 +6 onboard is 14 disks die aangesloten kunnen worden in deze config.
- Sata kabels en schroefjes voor de disks.
- Rackrails!

• SC813MTQ-350CB at €299 ( incl 2x E5629 / 24 GB mem / X8DTL-iF)
• SuperChassis SC933T-R760 at €115,- (no hardware)

But I'll take your advise and do a bit of searching on 4U's and noise, as well as mods xD[/Spoiler]

The thing w as... 4U is big if there's barely going to be any disks in it for now. So thought 2U was a decent midway , and 1U to load

 

[trumee]

I would like to use the same motherboard (X10DRL-i) with the fractal design R5 case. Does that motherboard fit correctly in the case or did you have mod it?

 

[T_Minus]

4U SuperMicro 846
24x 3.5" Hot Swap + Room for SSD inside

SuperMicro 4U Active HSF w/no shroud w/PWMfans all around (chassis+cpu)... QUIET.

Then again my SuperMicro 2U is nearly dead-silent with active HSF and PWM all around too, this is with non-SM CPU fans they wine a good deal more than the Dynatron (copper)... also Intel are much louder too.

 

[Mirabis]

I would like to use the same motherboard (X10DRL-i) with the fractal design R5 case. Does that motherboard fit correctly in the case or did you have mod it?

Yeah it fits fine

Kind of miss my Define R5 after I Switched to the SC847.... the sound... the heat...

 

[trumee]

Yeah it fits fine

Kind of miss my Define R5 after I Switched to the SC847.... the sound... the heat...

What power supply and CPU fans were you using with Define R5?