Supermico X10DRU-I+

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I am currently running truenas out of the corpse of an old gaming machine and everything is creaking. Main usecase is as a back-up and file server.

I am trying to get my head around options on an old server, and I have found a very reasonably priced X10DRU-I+ … so reasonably priced that I am sure there must be a downside to this model that I am not seeing …

It’s DDR4 ECC, E5 v3, only 12 bay, but that’s fine, will mostly be sata spinners for the forseeable. Comes with a quad 10gbps NIC (otherwise I can see a downside would be the limited network bandwidth).

Am I being stupid here, or is that a reasonably entry-level piece of kit for a fairly unexciting back-up and file server?

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Sounds like a decent motherboard but I do not know it. I see two sockets, lots of DIMM slots so my main concern would be power consumption.

If you’re in a part of the world where that isn’t expensive, go for it. You may also find a low watt CPU that meets your needs and leave the second CPU slot and associated DIMM slots barren until the need presents itself.

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Also, E5v4 CPUs go for cheap these days if you want to upgrade it to more cores/efficiency/perf etc

Be sure to do a bios update before upgrading to v4.

Do a bios update anyway.

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This is a proprietary form factor, so I hope you actually found the whole system with all risers rather than a lone motherboard.

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As mentioned, as long as it’s the whole system, and you don’t mind the power consumption and noise (2u with 2 x 85w (?) CPUs), it’s probably just fine. A file server doesn’t really need dual CPUs, so if you could find a single CPU system that supports all the cards/disks/memory you need – I’d opt for that.

And yeah, this stuff can get cheap really fast. I buy used whenever possible for home…

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Indeed, whole shebang, inc PSUs, risers, adaptors and even caddies.

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I’m new to super micro and hoping that they’re easier to do BIOS updates on than the DCS frankenserver my ex had me poking around in last week (9 DIMM slots across two CPUs, how does that even make sense?)

I’m still not entirely sure what I did to make 2/4 nodes start working …

I digress.