Posted September 16, 2017 So I am going to build a gas in the very near future, I need it to be "fast and reliable". I do a lot of design work with lots of big files which I can't lose any of. I have been looking at this retired server that I found on eBay: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-ProLiant-4x-Xeon-Quad-Core-48GB-RAM-DL2000-G6-Blade-Node-Server-Rack-Server-/122549813689?hash=item1c8889c1b9:g:I5EAAOSwxBdZfyb~#viTabs_0 it doesn't come with the drive bays but I can source them from other locations. Admittedly the quantity of bays is overkill for my needs but it's nice to know the expansion is there is I need it. However something that made me reconsider this was the fact that they were 2.5 inch bays rather than 3.5 inch bays. I have been looking around and it seems that there aren't any good 2.5 inch has hard drives. (Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong). I understand that the server I am looking at comes with 2 nodes. I look to replace their current processors with xeon x5650's and if I only need to use one node for then as then I am sure to make use of the other one for things like virtualisation, or as a router among other things (This server stuff interests me so I want to start my journey as it were). Any and all advise you may have is much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 16, 2017 The only 2.5" NAS drives are part of the WD RED lineup, and the max capacity is 1TB. While 2TB and 4TB 2.5" drives exist, they either aren't NAS-rated (specifically they lack TLER or a similar feature that prevents the drives from spending a long time trying to recover a read error and therefore dropping out of the array) or they are enterprise drives that therefore cost way more than a NAS drive would (e.g. Seagate ST2000NX0243) Looking to buy GTX690, other multi-GPU cards, or single-slot graphics cards: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 16, 2017 Look at a dell r710 if you want 3.5 in bays with dual of those same cpus. Good luck, Have fun, Build PC, and have a last gen console for use once a year. I should answer most of the time between 9 to 3 PST NightHawk 3.0: R7 5700x @, B550A vision D, H105, 2x32gb Oloy 3600, Sapphire RX 6700XT Nitro+, Corsair RM750X, 500 gb 850 evo, 2tb rocket and 5tb Toshiba x300, 2x 6TB WD Black W10 all in a 750D airflow. GF PC: (nighthawk 2.0): R7 2700x, B450m vision D, 4x8gb Geli 2933, Strix GTX970, CX650M RGB, Obsidian 350D Skunkworks: R5 3500U, 16gb, 500gb Adata XPG 6000 lite, Vega 8. HP probook G455R G6 Ubuntu 20. LTS Condor (MC server): 6600K, z170m plus, 16gb corsair vengeance LPX, samsung 750 evo, EVGA BR 450. Spirt (NAS) ASUS Z9PR-D12, 2x E5 2620V2, 8x4gb, 24 3tb HDD. F80 800gb cache, trueNAS, 2x12disk raid Z3 stripped PSU Tier List Motherboard Tier List SSD Tier List How to get PC parts cheap HP probook 445R G6 review "Stupidity is like trying to find a limit of a constant. You are never truly smart in something, just less stupid." Camera Gear: X-S10, 16-80 F4, 60D, 24-105 F4, 50mm F1.4, Helios44-m, 2 Cos-11D lavs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 16, 2017 You're either looking at Seagate Constellation 2.5 disks or if you need to go cheap Seagate Barracuda 2.5 disks which go up to 5TB. Downside to the Barracuda disks is the lack of TLER but depending on how you put them in an array and how much load you put on them it might not be a big issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 16, 2017 30 minutes ago, GDRRiley said: Look at a dell r710 if you want 3.5 in bays with dual of those same cpus. Also Dell R510. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 16, 2017 1 minute ago, leadeater said: Also Dell R510. yeah. I was thinking about recommending an HP server but the I thought of my own issues, DL380G6, not liking flash drive booting and having special firmware Good luck, Have fun, Build PC, and have a last gen console for use once a year. I should answer most of the time between 9 to 3 PST NightHawk 3.0: R7 5700x @, B550A vision D, H105, 2x32gb Oloy 3600, Sapphire RX 6700XT Nitro+, Corsair RM750X, 500 gb 850 evo, 2tb rocket and 5tb Toshiba x300, 2x 6TB WD Black W10 all in a 750D airflow. GF PC: (nighthawk 2.0): R7 2700x, B450m vision D, 4x8gb Geli 2933, Strix GTX970, CX650M RGB, Obsidian 350D Skunkworks: R5 3500U, 16gb, 500gb Adata XPG 6000 lite, Vega 8. HP probook G455R G6 Ubuntu 20. LTS Condor (MC server): 6600K, z170m plus, 16gb corsair vengeance LPX, samsung 750 evo, EVGA BR 450. Spirt (NAS) ASUS Z9PR-D12, 2x E5 2620V2, 8x4gb, 24 3tb HDD. F80 800gb cache, trueNAS, 2x12disk raid Z3 stripped PSU Tier List Motherboard Tier List SSD Tier List How to get PC parts cheap HP probook 445R G6 review "Stupidity is like trying to find a limit of a constant. You are never truly smart in something, just less stupid." Camera Gear: X-S10, 16-80 F4, 60D, 24-105 F4, 50mm F1.4, Helios44-m, 2 Cos-11D lavs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 17, 2017 Author Ok, I'll have a look. And I think that I am going to use an lsi raid controller to put the drives in RAID 0. I need about 10tb only in this server. But am looking to expand to having 20tb of useable storage as soon as I have tested and set up and am happy with the drives I chose, software etc. So could you guys recommend what capacity drives I should get and well how many of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 17, 2017 Author A dual node system would be great as I am looking to make an ssd nas for fast transfers during the day and then that information get's backed up to the hard drives over night either every day or every other day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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