Motherboards That Will Fit Into A Chenbro RM215 Chassis
Jul 13, 2007
what type of motherboard can fit into a RM215/217 server? We purchased some of these from a Dutch supplier 2 years ago, and they were delivered with Tyan AMD motherboards with S939 CPU's.
These are used for file storage, and are running 3ware 9550-sx controllers. Tasks are only rsyncing, gzipping, and rotating backups. Problem is that this is now happening fast enough with the single Opteron 2Ghz CPU they are carrying.
I want to do something like this;
* Dual Xeon Nocona, 2.8Ghz etc as we have _many_ of these CPU's already
* Dual Opteron 250-252 etc
* If as fast as the Dual Nocona, maybe a Core2 Duo, although not sure what is available w/PCI-X
So, if anyone knows, or can give any ideas, OR has any Nocona-capable motherboards for sale in Amsterdam for sale, please let me know,
BTW I have already tried doing the x2 chip upgrade on one of these, and was not impressed. The motherboard which is in these machines now IIRC is a S8965 Tyan - which has 32 bit PCI slots. I believe one of the problems here is the controller needs a 64 bit PCI slot to sit on, as it's saturating the 32 bit PCI bus.
Disk config is 8 x 750G / 9550-sx - again all I need is
* gzip / tar / move the files around & delete them
* figure 3-4TB of data on each of these boxes
OS - RHEL 5
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Mar 26, 2008
I'm interested in using low-voltage Xeons such as the L5420 in a dual processor server. Does anyone know if these are compatible with the standard Supermicro motherboards, or are special motherboards required?
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Apr 14, 2008
We are looking for a couple of servers for streaming media application and database application. We are wondering if anyone can give us some suggestions as to whether to use a used-Dell 1750 or 1850 vs. a new Taiwan-made server such as Chenbro servers?
Will a used-Dell servers better or worst than a new white-label servers? Can anyone give recommedation on which servers to use? We need something that is very reliable but we definitely can't afford something like a new IBM or Dell.
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Apr 10, 2009
I am configuring an environment where several servers are going to boot from iSCSI.
The chassis will not have any local storage.
I am looking for cheap 1U chassis where I can plug in a decent PSU and a Super Micro X8STi-F with an Intel Core i7 proc.
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Mar 23, 2008
where to buy server chassis in Europe?
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Feb 14, 2007
Can anyone recommend a good 1U server chassis that is $100 or under?
Preferrably one already with a good/reliable power supply in it. Just something that will handle PentiumD or Athlon AM2 stuff & 2 hard drives.
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May 1, 2007
I've bought a chassis "SuperChassis 512L-260" from Supermicro. Now, I want to install an Intel Mainboard (Intel S3000AHV). It's only a testing server.
Which I/O shield do I need and where I can get it (am I able to change it?)?
Perhaps, I have to use a Supermicro mainboard?
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Oct 16, 2007
We are using the SC512L-260B chassis for our lower end machines, what is a good recommendation for say Dual Opteron or Dual Woodcrest servers?
Looking 1U that will handle 2 drives, but would also like a recommendation for going with 4 drives (would this require 2U?). Hot swap not necessary.
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Apr 23, 2008
I have bought an Intel SR2500LX server chassis with a S5000PAL mainboard running Centos. This system has an active backplane with a LSI MegaRaid chipset.
I'd like to be notified in the case of a drive failure but I'm totally stumped on how to get any monitoring working.
The only raid managment utility Intel supplies is a Java based monstrosity, which needs X-Windows to run and needs to be run continuously in order for the email notification to work.
Web based management can only be used from the same subnet as the server, so that's not very useful either.
I've contacted Intel support which gave me the advice to reboot the server and use the Bios utility if I want to check the Raid arrays consistency . Needless to say I'm very dissapointed, this server has every redundancy feature you can think of but it seems impossible to monitor the Raid under Linux.
Does anybody have experience with the Chassis and Raid monitoring under Linux?
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Jan 27, 2008
Has anyone been using a 1333 FSB Core 2 Duo board in the SC512L that will fit without modification? Looking for something for mass use, I know some of the server boards will fit fine, wondering about some of the ASUS or Foxconn boards.
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