Research

Hardware

Rack max depth ~500mm.

Dell PowerEdge R710

  • Depth 681mm
  • £200-300 on eBay
  • PERC H800 external RAID card (dual miniSAS)
  • Or non-raid PCIe with dual miniSAS
  • lots of RAM
  • CPUs?
    • X5650 > E5645 > E5620 > E5606 > E5507 > X5560 = X5550
  • power and thermal requirements?
  • PCIe expansion slots?
  • 2xGigE

Dell PowerEdge R210

  • R210 II specs
  • Depth 390mm
  • HP Version of the R210 II is the DL320e Gen8 v2
  • 1x PCIe x16

HP DL320e G8 v2

  • G8 v2 specs
  • Depth 381cm
  • Requires railkit
    • 775612-B21 ordered via Amazon UK (~£68)
  • Single Xeon
  • 1U
  • Seems like G8 v1 was a full depth chassis
  • 2x PCIe (x8, x4)

HP DL20 G9

  • Compact 1U
  • Too expensive?

Others

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dell_PowerEdge_Servers

  • R610 (1U, 2.5" only)
  • R720 (Xeon E family, 768GB RAM, 4xGigE)

Storage adapter

  • Dual miniSAS (SFF-8088)
  • PCIe
  • Dell H200 (internal only?, JBOD)
  • LSI-SAS 9207-8e (PCIe 8x, SFF-8088)
  • LSI-SAS 9200-8e (some IBM card cross-flashed?)

LSI LSI00138

  • PCIe 8x
  • SAS only?

Purchased