Reuse old hardware

[dclevy1]

I have a old server that was being thrown out it is a proliant ml150 G6 with a zeon e5520 I know this is very old server Hardware and I know freenas doesn't require anything particularly power hungry. Am I able to use this Hardware?

 

[Chris Moore]

I have a old server that was being thrown out it is a proliant ml150 G6 with a zeon e5520 I know this is very old server Hardware and I know freenas doesn't require anything particularly power hungry. Am I able to use this Hardware?

It is not ideal, but it would work. You should be able to upgrade the CPU in that system if you find you need more compute cycles.
Something like this for example:

Intel Xeon X5690 SLBVX 3.46GHZ 12MB 6.4GT/s LGA 1366/Socket B Six-Core CPU *km | eBay

Xeon CPU/Processors. Core 2 CPU/Processors. Dual Core CPU/Processors. Point of Sale. Apple & Mac. Cables Connectors. Power Protection. IBM Servers.

www.ebay.com

The important thing is that you must not use a hardware RAID controller.

 

[dclevy1]

It is not ideal, but it would work. You should be able to upgrade the CPU in that system if you find you need more compute cycles.
Something like this for example:

Intel Xeon X5690 SLBVX 3.46GHZ 12MB 6.4GT/s LGA 1366/Socket B Six-Core CPU *km | eBay

Xeon CPU/Processors. Core 2 CPU/Processors. Dual Core CPU/Processors. Point of Sale. Apple & Mac. Cables Connectors. Power Protection. IBM Servers.

www.ebay.com

The important thing is that you must not use a hardware RAID controller.

Exactly what can I use to give more sata ports I remember seeing it only have four. Maybe PCI sata multiplier

 

[danb35]

Exactly what can I use to give more sata ports I remember seeing it only have four.

I'm pretty sure the guide you're responding to answers this question--a LSI SAS HBA.

 

[dclevy1]

What's the minimum number of cores you all would recommend?

 

[dclevy1]

It is not ideal, but it would work. You should be able to upgrade the CPU in that system if you find you need more compute cycles.
Something like this for example:

Intel Xeon X5690 SLBVX 3.46GHZ 12MB 6.4GT/s LGA 1366/Socket B Six-Core CPU *km | eBay

Xeon CPU/Processors. Core 2 CPU/Processors. Dual Core CPU/Processors. Point of Sale. Apple & Mac. Cables Connectors. Power Protection. IBM Servers.

www.ebay.com

The important thing is that you must not use a hardware RAID controller.

Just curious Why would you choose this CPU over some of the ones with higher frequency but lower amount of cores?

 

[hescominsoon]

What's the minimum number of cores you all would recommend?

it depends on your use case. how many users? which services do you want to run? are you planning on making use of plugins and/or vm's?

 

[hescominsoon]

Just curious Why would you choose this CPU over some of the ones with higher frequency but lower amount of cores?

See my previous post..:)