Re:I made a new backplane for my consumer NAS
by ComputerGuru on Monday April 29, 2024 @02:49PM
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SuperMicro stuff has gotten so expensive. I remember when they were first getting started and even years afterwards, and it's nothing like today.
Honestly, best thing you can do now is just live with a tower server or buy off-lease from eBay. We've passed the hump where the off-lease eBay specials had the energy footprint of a small factory and used turbine jet engines to power the fans and cool things down.
I did buy once buy a no-name (ATX?) 2U case/rails only from eBay, but the manufacturing, accessibility, ergonomics, design, and everything else were terrible enough that I would not do it again.
Re:I made a new backplane for my consumer NAS
by wil421 on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @07:51AM
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The problem is still the jet engine fans in used servers. They may have much lower power requirements these days but a lot of them trade CPU coolers for loud fans.
My Supermicro NAS is rack mounted and is barely noticeable at idle.
They're just bog standard x86 boxes with a lot of drive slots, a backplane, and a lot of sad or sata ports and controller capacity. There's a pretty healthy used market in these things also. But they are targeting people who want to put 10 or more drives in a single enclosure, which is why I say they might not be consumer.