[OmniOS-discuss] An alternative to HP Microserver Gen8?

[C. L. Martinez]

On Thu  1.Dec'16 at 21:27:33 -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Dec 2016, Josh Coombs wrote:
> > 
> > Supermicro has
> > https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/midtower/5028/SYS-5028A-TN4.cfm
> > which looks to have potential as a direct competitor to the microserver,
> > utilizing the mobo Lauri mentioned.  Supermicro has a bunch of builds based
> > around that chassis depending on how much grunt you want, all SATA based
> > though.
> 
> The Xeon-D version at
> https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/midtower/5028/SYS-5028D-TN4T.cfm
> has a lot more capability than the Atom-based model.
> 
> If you are willing to have one boot drive, then you could use the M.2 slot
> to add a M.2-based SSD for excellent performance and retaining four drive
> slots for server disks.
> 
> It also says that it has 2x 2.5" internal drive bays so you could have SATA
> 6 drives in all, plus the M.2-based SSD.
> 
> Bob

Many thanks Bob and Josh. Both, they seems a perfect replacement for microserver gen8. But what about the noise?? I will use it as a home NAS :))


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Greetings,
C. L. Martinez