Oh and I forgot the coolest part. It has a USB port integrated right on the main board which is where I install the boot/root filesystem. It lets me use all the sata ports for /home. ... :)
Cya, Dan On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Dan Graham <graha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Royce, > > I recently acquired one of these: It has dual gig Ethernet (Intel) an IPMI > port for remote headless access, etc. For $179 it is just amazing. I put a > Sandy Bridge quad core Xeon on it for $240 and run a number of KVM VMs on > it and it just flies. CPU power consumption maxes out at 80 Watts, and > idles at 20 or less. You could do far worse than this one. > All the best, Dan > > Mainboard: > > http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182262&nm_mc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel&cm_mmc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel-_-Content-_-text-_- > > Xeon CPU: > > http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115083&nm_mc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel&cm_mmc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel-_-Content-_-text-_- > > > On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Jamie Furtner <ja...@furtner.ca> wrote: > >> On 2012-03-25 8:52 AM, Royce Souther wrote: >> >>> I am trying to put together a file server and trying to get as many SATA >>> ports as I can. I found a motherboard I like but it only has 6 SATA ports. >>> It also has PCI-Ex8 and PCI-Ex16 slots. I want to add a SATA card. >>> Supermicro makes an 8 port SATA card that is PCI-Ex4. >>> >>> Can I use a PCI-Ex4 cards in a PCI-Ex8 or PCI-Ex16 slot? If so then I >>> can have 22 SATA drives in this box. >>> >>> Yes, you can use a card that uses a smaller number of PCIe channels in >> a larger slot - the reverse is not true of course. The card won't be any >> faster than if it were plugged into its native slot but it works correctly. >> >> This means you can use a x1 card in a x1, x4, x8 or x16 slot, a x4 card >> in a x4, x8, or x16 slot and so forth. >> >> Jamie >> >> -- >> Jamie Furtner ja...@furtner.ca >> "I aim to misbehave" >> - Malcom Reynolds (Serenity movie) >> "It's not safe... >> "For them." >> - River Tam (Serenity movie) >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> clug-talk@clug.ca >> http://clug.ca/mailman/**listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca<http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca> >> Mailing List Guidelines >> (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.**php<http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php> >> ) >> **Please remove these lines when replying >> > > > > -- > One thing you can be sure of. If you throw a loaded gun in a monkey cage, > something bad is going to happen. > -- One thing you can be sure of. If you throw a loaded gun in a monkey cage, something bad is going to happen.
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