C2750 dead... will an old motherboard suffice in short term?

[sroot]

Hi everyone,
I had an ASRock rack avoton running well for a year and a bit, but last month it died. It's gone back to AS Rock but after a month they still haven't resolved it and from what I read, I doubt it can be replaced (intel processor issue on the chips I gather).
On the plus side this was my backup destination so it's no big deal day to day. On the minus side, this was my offsite backup server and I'm going greyer by the day not having it around. Dragging USB hard disks between office and home really is a drag.

I've had a look, and it turns out buying suitable server motherboards (ipmi, 6-8 x sata) and processors (i3 or xeon for the ECC) and memory ('cause it appears DDR3 options to reuse what I have are few and far between now) and replacing with new is expensive and/or complicated in many ways. It's not one for a quick decision when on a tight budget.

How much pain am I likely to cause myself if i;
a) buy a suitable HBA off ebay
b) use an old desktop Core 2 Duo 6420
c) combine them to a frankenstein machine to run for about 3 months until I have time to choose hardware properly

I think I know what will be the consensus ... that motherboard/proc/mem has no ECC.. sigh.

Thanks

 

[Chris Moore]

Hi everyone,
I had an ASRock rack avoton running well for a year and a bit, but last month it died. It's gone back to AS Rock but after a month they still haven't resolved it and from what I read, I doubt it can be replaced (intel processor issue on the chips I gather).
On the plus side this was my backup destination so it's no big deal day to day. On the minus side, this was my offsite backup server and I'm going greyer by the day not having it around. Dragging USB hard disks between office and home really is a drag.

I've had a look, and it turns out buying suitable server motherboards (ipmi, 6-8 x sata) and processors (i3 or xeon for the ECC) and memory ('cause it appears DDR3 options to reuse what I have are few and far between now) and replacing with new is expensive and/or complicated in many ways. It's not one for a quick decision when on a tight budget.

How much pain am I likely to cause myself if i;
a) buy a suitable HBA off ebay
b) use an old desktop Core 2 Duo 6420
c) combine them to a frankenstein machine to run for about 3 months until I have time to choose hardware properly

I think I know what will be the consensus ... that motherboard/proc/mem has no ECC.. sigh.

Thanks

What kind of budget are you looking to spend for something temporary versus how much are you looking to spend for something permanent?
Is the core 2 thing that you're talking about something you already have?

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[sroot]

For temporary, I have everything but a HBA. A not very thorough search of ebay suggested less than £50 would get me up and running. I've not got ECC memory for it though...

For permanent, I'll spend what I have to. Looks like £1,000 ish. Enough that I'd be annoyed with myself if the Avoton board comes back fixed in a month or two.