January 17, 20215 yr I've run out of room in my current chassis and also am running on very old hardware that is not able to support features/functions I'm looking to utilize. I have been looking for a used rack mount unit as they seem to be fairly affordable with good hardware and easily able to hold and maintain good temps on a bunch of drives. The 12 bay units are the ones I've been considering. My current setup is five disks (parity included) and an 2.5" SSD cache drive. I have another disk to add to the array and plan on adding at least another disk or two from another server that I'd like to consolidate into Unraid. I found this while browsing eBay and wanted to get some feedback if it will work for me as well as if it's a good choice or if I should be looking at something else. https://www.ebay.com/itm/SUPERMICRO-CSE-829U-X10DRU-I-12LFF-2x-12C-E5-2678V3-2-5GHz-2x-PSU-0GB-RAM-NO-HD/133571662867?hash=item1f197dd413:g:QH4AAOSw0dVfqbms Other than it needing RAM (which isn't hard to find nor terribly expensive) and potentially disk trays (although I've read about other people receiving their server from this seller with trays), anything I'm missing? I'm the least knowledgeable about backplanes, SATA/SAS connections, if I'd need an HBA or if the onboard connections will do, etc. Current/future plans for my server: File storage/hosting/syncing Emby for streaming Unifi controller via docker Pihole via docker VM's Security camera capture/storage Future hardware: Graphics card for hardware transcoding 10Gb NIC PCIe card for NVME drives for faster cache Servers are a bit out of my knowledge base so I appreciate any and all help!
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