Hi Russell, On 16/6/20 10:23 am, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote:
On Saturday, 13 June 2020 11:15:34 PM AEST Russell Coker via luv-main wrote:
For a long time I've had a good history with Dell servers. I currently have a PowerEdge Tower 1xx series at home, a LUV member has my previous PowerEdge Tower 1xx series at his home, and I've got a bunch of clients happily using 1xx series systems and one client with a PowerEdge Tower 630 (18*3.5" SATA disks running nicely on ZFS).
Someone suggested off-list SuperMicro systems from Digicor. They look OK but the site is difficult to navigate and still not quite what is ideal.
NVMe and SSD are the way to go for the vast majority of servers nowadays, 2TB is the largest SSDs available right now and 2*2TB disks in a RAID-1 will cover most SME server use cases.
Is anyone selling white-box SFF cases and PSUs and what's a good place to buy ECC RAM and motherboards? It seems like a SFF system with ECC RAM and 2*SSD is a pretty ideal server for a lot of SME uses.
I think your biggest problem is ECC memory, I've seen EOL equipment that is brand new and still comes with a 3 year warranty that suits most people just fine. Intel NUC6i7KYK4 (4 for AU region fwiw, other numbers afer KYK are just to do with the power block and cord for the region, so if you get a different end number, then it is likely just a power cord difference, that's all, aside from the possibility that it is a Kogan type warranty and not Intel's own manufacturer warranty). The last NUC6i7KYK4 I purchased was recently at $599 plus shipping and insurance, so under $640 -- of course being a NUC, you add RAM and storage. The $599 price seems to come up often enough and will until all stocks have been exhausted, I'm sure. A.