steveputman
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Hello (and happy new year!)
In the course of moving houses, I would like to transition from my existing 6-bay FreeNAS tower to a higher-capacity rackmount server, predominantly used for storing local backups and serving music (through Roon, if that's relevant). I'm also interested in playing around with VMs.
I am totally ignorant about server hardware so would welcome any recommendations you might have. Sizewise, 24 3.5" bays in a 4U chassis seems the most reasonable. Noise isn't a concern, as the rack is somewhat isolated. Not too fussy about budget, but inclination is to buy used where it makes sense (chassis, for example).
Based on the extremely helpful responses by @Chris Moore and others in similar threads, I am inclined to try to find a Supermicro chassis on eBay, but I'm a little concerned about getting the wrong thing (some of the listings don't seem to specify backplane type, for example). It looks as though I should look for an -A backplane to avoid the individual cables for each drive in the -TQ? And in addition to the chassis, new CPU, motherboard, memory, cooler, and data drives and boot drives, I will need one or more SAS controllers + appropriate cabling?
Thanks for any help!
Steve
In the course of moving houses, I would like to transition from my existing 6-bay FreeNAS tower to a higher-capacity rackmount server, predominantly used for storing local backups and serving music (through Roon, if that's relevant). I'm also interested in playing around with VMs.
I am totally ignorant about server hardware so would welcome any recommendations you might have. Sizewise, 24 3.5" bays in a 4U chassis seems the most reasonable. Noise isn't a concern, as the rack is somewhat isolated. Not too fussy about budget, but inclination is to buy used where it makes sense (chassis, for example).
Based on the extremely helpful responses by @Chris Moore and others in similar threads, I am inclined to try to find a Supermicro chassis on eBay, but I'm a little concerned about getting the wrong thing (some of the listings don't seem to specify backplane type, for example). It looks as though I should look for an -A backplane to avoid the individual cables for each drive in the -TQ? And in addition to the chassis, new CPU, motherboard, memory, cooler, and data drives and boot drives, I will need one or more SAS controllers + appropriate cabling?
Thanks for any help!
Steve