I just got two of these. Fully loaded. Disks, sleds, rails.
Fiber cards + 4 onboard NICs and 4 more on another card.
Its a dual proc board with a bunch of ram slots. (I think its Sandybridge procs, DDR3.)
20 HDD bays. These things are (older) beastly storage boxen.
Board Manufacturer: Supermicro
Chassis Part Number: CSE-846BTS-R920BP
Board Part Num: X9DRi-LN4+/X9DR3-LN4+
Product PartNum: SSG-6047R-E1R24N
I got them because they were at a remote colo, and they crashed a bunch of times.
They cost us more downtime than they were worth.
I happened to be in town and made my boss an offer.
He didn’t have to pay for e-waste fees, and I removed his problem for the low, low cost of $0.
So now they are my problem.
I don’t need 200 TB of redundant storage. I’m gonna shop em out and sell em.
No idea if the dual 920 watt psu will blow my apt breakers. Takes a lot of juice to spin 20 hdds.
So far, I’ve hauled them across half the US, up my stairs, and admired them.
I found a youtuber ‘Art of the Server’ with some helpful vids. Watched a bunch.
No real idea what I’m doing next.
I’ve configured them several times in the past. They always died after months of steady service.
Dead disks, etc. Maybe bad controllers?
A fault that intermittent is hard to diagnose, but they are in front of me now.
I can do whatever I need to. These are complicated devices.
My original plan of teardown and rebuild seems unwise now.
I’m interested in any practical feedback.
It’ll probably only draw a couple hundred watts, even if substantially full. The real thing to tackle here is heat. It will definitely warm up your room.
Source: I have a 26 drive array and it only draws around 350 W with all drives spinning during parity check. Usually they aren’t all spinning though, and it goes down to around 220 W idle. That’s with an Epyc 7702 and a 25GB nic as well.
Ok cool. Ya we closed our office, and I work from home now, so my only bench is my livingroom table. It’s gonna be an interesting moment when I power the first one up, but I’m glad to hear they will probably run.
Yeah, unless you have really jacked-up wiring (like, really bad), then the worst that would happen is tripping the breaker. But I don’t think you’ll pull enough amps to do that with this setup alone. Is there anything else using a lot of power on this breaker?
Nah, I live alone. Just me, two cats, and my robots. I can turn everything off if I want.
I pulled the rails off today, packed those up. You know, so I don’t slice my leg open walking by them.
I’ll plug one in this week and get started with it.