Supermicro SuperServer 5019S-L
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Yeah, chassis and power supply is one of the budget ones but the X11SSL-F is a very solid board, anything in particular you want to know?
Fans won't be quiet by any means though as its a rackmount server but I'm sure you're probably aware
Fans won't be quiet by any means though as its a rackmount server but I'm sure you're probably aware
I’ve currently got a custom SFF i3-6100T, Pondesk Atom e3845 firewall unit and a Dell PowerEdge R220, which is the nosiest of the lot.
Was looking at selling off all and replacing with the Supermicro to run Sophos XG/Untangle.
Was looking at selling off all and replacing with the Supermicro to run Sophos XG/Untangle.
Outside of very specific usage scenarios, you won’t see a significant upgrade in performance vs the R220 running a similar CPU, or a massive power saving, or an ability to add any more RAM/drives/PCIe, so my first question would be what is dropping north of £500 inc RAM/CPU actually going to get you vs the R220 running a similar config? I say that as someone who just dropped a frankly obscene amount on rail kits for 3 Supermicro servers, so I’m not judging you here - we all have our own reasons for doing things that in hindsight we may think were less than ideal. In my case I could have purchased another R720 that I have the rail kits for already and called it a day for about 1/2 the money.
If you do want small/quiet and it is just for firewall use, £55-60 buys you an OK SFF with RAM and potentially a drive (junk it and use a small SSD for power/noise savings, most people have old drives). The £55 AMD option comes with dual onboard i210’s and 8GB of RAM.
If you do want small/quiet and it is just for firewall use, £55-60 buys you an OK SFF with RAM and potentially a drive (junk it and use a small SSD for power/noise savings, most people have old drives). The £55 AMD option comes with dual onboard i210’s and 8GB of RAM.
Do agree re the gain between the Dell PowerEdge and SuperMicro etc. The PowerEdge is a C222 chipset with an Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1240L v3 chip fitted
The small and quiet option I have is the Atom based firewall unit that has Intel 210 NICs.
The base chassis for the SuperMicro is circa £350, but will need RAM, CPU and SSD for that. I have CPU and SDDs already, but the RAM for the SuperMicro is DDR4 ECC so not the cheapest.
Atom unit is too slow for Sophos XG UI
The small and quiet option I have is the Atom based firewall unit that has Intel 210 NICs.
The base chassis for the SuperMicro is circa £350, but will need RAM, CPU and SSD for that. I have CPU and SDDs already, but the RAM for the SuperMicro is DDR4 ECC so not the cheapest.
Atom unit is too slow for Sophos XG UI
So let’s say you but the SM for £350, you drop another £70 on 16GB of DDR4 ECC Unbuffered so are into this for £420 (please tell me the SM comes with the rail kit as they are not cheap?). You can now flog the R220, E3845 and 6100T boxes and maybe break even.
Alternatively sell E3845/6100T set-up’s, the don’t spend £420 and use the R220, leaving you with north of £600+ in your pocket and functionally the same level of performance. One of those sounds like a better idea to me, but it’s your money.
Alternatively sell E3845/6100T set-up’s, the don’t spend £420 and use the R220, leaving you with north of £600+ in your pocket and functionally the same level of performance. One of those sounds like a better idea to me, but it’s your money.