Expanding personal lab

[devster31]

Hello,
I'd like to expand my current set-up, and I'd like to do so with 1 or 2 extra mini-nodes.

I currently have one of these: https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/2U/6027/SSG-6027R-E1R12L.cfm which is running 64 gigs of RAM and 2x E5-2560 V2. I added one of these https://noctua.at/en/na-fc1 to lower fan speed/noise. This is the main workhorse.

I'm looking for suggestions for a low-power (around 25-30W), relatively silent server. Performance isn't a hard requirement, I'd be aiming for an i3/E3 or similar, but I would like it to have at least 2x 2.5" SSD (preferred over M.2) bays + some 3.5 ones, double ethernet, 16 to 32 gigs of RAM, and some form of remote management. Bonus points if it can be easily wired and mounted on a Rack.

Usage would include: Ceph mon / mgr (possibly OSDs), etcd member, few containers for monitoring and logging aggregation.

 

If possible, I'd like to stay around 200€ for chassis (including CPU, rails/hdd bays and accessories, but excluding drives and RAM) but, as you can see from the currency, I live in Europe, where it may be harder to find something like this. For example a https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/1U/5019/SYS-5019S-MR.cfm is around 900-1200€ for just the chassis and is a 1U with 22.500 RPM fans.

What should I be looking for?
 

Thank you.

[Windows7ge]

If you're open to building the server from the ground up a couple of boards that meet your criteria are the:

1. ASRock Rack C2750D4I
2. ASRock Rack C2550D4I

Only problems are they're kind of expensive. You could fit them in any 2U enclosure easily and wire up all the drives you desire.

[devster31]

I am ok with building it, no issues.

The boards are good, however I can't seem to find them for less than 450€, and that would be without chassis, RAM and drives.

What about something like an E3-1240L v3 or E3-1220L V2 ? Maybe not those particular chips as I'm having some trouble finding those as well.