Research
Hardware
Rack max depth ~500mm.
Dell [PowerEdge][3][?][3] R710
- Depth 681mm
- £200-300 on eBay
- PERC H800 external RAID card (dual miniSAS)
- Or non-raid [PCIe][4][?][4] with dual miniSAS
- lots of RAM
- [CPUs][5][?][5]?
- X5650 > E5645 > E5620 > E5606 > E5507 > X5560 = X5550
- power and thermal requirements?
- [PCIe][4][?][4] expansion slots?
- 2xGigE
Dell [PowerEdge][3][?][3] R210
- R210 II specs
- Depth 390mm
- HP Version of the R210 II is the [DL320e][7][?][7] Gen8 v2
- 1x [PCIe][4][?][4] x16
HP [DL320e][7][?][7] 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][4][?]4
HP [DL20][9][?][9] 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][4][?][4]
- Dell H200 (internal only?, JBOD)
- LSI-SAS 9207-8e ([PCIe][4][?][4] 8x, SFF-8088)
- LSI-SAS 9200-8e (some IBM card cross-flashed?)
LSI [LSI00138][11][?][11]
- [PCIe][4][?][4] 8x
- SAS only?