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Supermicro chassis with front door, front loading drive bays
PSU with integrated circuit breaker and cooling fail indicator
Extremely robust and sturdy chassis. I replaced the screws with screw-knobs for easy opening.
Supermicro motherboard, Intel CPU, 3Ware PCI SATA RAID Controller
2 primary HDDs, on-board RAID-1 fault-tolerance, back plane for front-load drive
linkoid01
I like the fan that cools the RAID / HBA card. I have some 4-port server grade NICs that could use that.
Fishy820
Just clean it up and keep it, you can always run a linux server on it for testind. Plus it will stay current unlike crap ass windows.
Arcygenical
Wow, I forgot PCI-x ever existed. That's a throwback.
AndrewZabar
This sucker has been running for about 15 years and it’s never had so much as a hiccup until recently when one of the drives had an issue.
Clockworkdancerobot
Supermicro is pretty good hardware, I have a couple in my homelab. I tend to buy and use hardware for the long run. give something a new job
AndrewZabar
Yeah and my two NAS devices are ready for retirement but this sucker just too much power usage and heat for an always-on data solution :-(
linkoid01
What gen is the motherboard? Am asking because you could look for a low power CPU for it and not have to dispose of the whole thing.
thesceptre
set it up as a back up to your NAS. run it once a month to clone the NAS . it is only backed up if you have more than 2 copies