I'm looking to build a small nas for home use (backups, media server).
I have the disks I'll be using (4 WD Reds), and a few PCs I could use / pull parts from, but none of them have (or support the use of) ECC memory, and buying a new motherboard/cpu/ram, while possible, is more costly than I'd like.
Second hand, however, I've found a few possibilities - including the workstation listed in the title. It comes with a Xeon E5-1650 v2 and 32GB of ECC ram, so I know they're more than sufficient. The motherboard has 6 sata ports (and plenty of slots for extra adapters, should I need more). The case, though... Google tells me that the case it comes in is only designed to fit 2 HDDs. A third could be mounted in the 5.25" bay, but without resorting to dodgy duct-tape-based solutions, that's all (and I'd rather avoid using duct tape to hold together the server that will be holding my data!). So I know I'd need to transplant the innards into a more suitable case, but google has not told me the dimensions of the motherboard, or if the power supply is a standard size, or any other such information that would hint at how easy transplanting it into a standard tower case would be (see previous comment re: duct tape)
Does anyone have experience with those Dells?
I have the disks I'll be using (4 WD Reds), and a few PCs I could use / pull parts from, but none of them have (or support the use of) ECC memory, and buying a new motherboard/cpu/ram, while possible, is more costly than I'd like.
Second hand, however, I've found a few possibilities - including the workstation listed in the title. It comes with a Xeon E5-1650 v2 and 32GB of ECC ram, so I know they're more than sufficient. The motherboard has 6 sata ports (and plenty of slots for extra adapters, should I need more). The case, though... Google tells me that the case it comes in is only designed to fit 2 HDDs. A third could be mounted in the 5.25" bay, but without resorting to dodgy duct-tape-based solutions, that's all (and I'd rather avoid using duct tape to hold together the server that will be holding my data!). So I know I'd need to transplant the innards into a more suitable case, but google has not told me the dimensions of the motherboard, or if the power supply is a standard size, or any other such information that would hint at how easy transplanting it into a standard tower case would be (see previous comment re: duct tape)
Does anyone have experience with those Dells?