
panteragstk
Audioholic Warlord
Yeah, I know a lot of the unRAID guys have been grabbing those. I got a steal on 2x Xeon 2670 v1 with 64gig of ram and a motherboard for under $600. PSU and case weren't cheap, but I shouldn't need to upgrade for several years. Check here. Great customer service.Yeah, thinking switching 2tb drives to 8tb (like I said it's expensive idea), but now it got me thinking that I'd have 6x2tb drives lying around useless... Tis no good.
Recently saw bunch of very cheap ($200-300) old rack servers on ebay with lots of hd slots. They have everything but drives. Typical to have 2x CPUs, lots of ECC memory (32-48gb+), controllers, psus - the lot. Thinking some maybe a good fit for a replacement freenas box. The problem is old servers had old sas/sata backplane and they won't support 8tb drives well. One should treat carefully.
24x3.5" bay case??? Jeez.
Runs all my dockers and VMs without breaking a sweat.