I have a lead on a well priced Supermicro 6047R chassis and pretty much all the hardware except hard drives (dual E5-2609 v2, a couple SFP and 10GBe cards, AOC-S3008L-L8E, SAS3, X9DRD-EF). It's in good nick and has all caddies intact.  

 

 

My plans are to keep it quite simple for long term archiving and backup to populate it with a variety of cheaper disks with good quality parity disks and standbys. It'll run a few apps, nothing too taxing. 

 

I have a little concern about the reliability of such old hardware. Replacing the backplane alone is double the cost of the chassis. As is the motherboard, although dual socket is a bit overkill. All the other components can be easily replaced at a decent price. 

 

I'm a bit concerned about having a hot noisy power drain. Is it a white elephant using old hardware or would I be buying a stalwart? 

 

Please dont use such old hardware.

The hardware will likely perform as it was new, its servergrade and build to last.

however. It should really go to the scrapyard due to the powerdemands.

 

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/2202vs5157/Intel-Xeon-E5-2609-v2-vs-Intel-N100

 

I know the CPUs cant be compared in raw passmark points because there is so much more to it, but the system you are asking about is a powerhog that will drain your wall socket dry for juice. The mere TDP per CPU is 80Watts, and the N100 CPU i also linked is only 6 watt.

https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/N100M/

Drop a 10Gbit NIC on it if you have the need, This mobo only has 2xSATA onboard, but use a M.2 -> 6xSATA to go up number of drives.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/175548988967?itmmeta=01J4D7ERCPBJTH8WK8HYBMYMYJ&hash=item28df88fe27:g:PKcAAOSwB51jqRpE&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA4JkBK6kALYkBHAJRpzXrk4Cv3UKiZGyF5L1gurXMDN6yJl4V8h8Y1UqJFvc5mP9yYGxiZ2jNl1IPvJYYZs74psJN9rZCM6pq%2Fquv9xsB33TGTuT8OLEr6ToAT1JTERJykNH7fEEa%2FgO%2FY1ENJIJNbXkvNszy2Ek9g9lsQt%2BAwIywKTdcBT4exdFx5Wk4SIJPlS4efOaJYhNMSnR3gyqCdu3m%2FeMKpPlpFQ6dE2HAfa5Xi0xOpV5jFZtE58E%2Bl19RBvwzn4sBIYpZFPji4%2BLk5bllDcyfv79t8jwxwEe4VkUx|tkp%3ABFBMwIa7p6Nk I dont know if the controller is good for Unraid, do some research on it first.

 

You can buy the system, but dont reuse the old hardware, but exchange it with something newer. If it would be a system you had for cold storage and only started once a week to drop stuff on and then turn off again - Awesome, but not a 24/7 server.

 

Otherwise a case like the Jonsbo N3 is really nice

https://www.jonsbo.com/en/products/N3.html

 

Ooh, and the N100 chip can also transcode if you wanna have a PLEX server or similar

 

15 hours ago, kimmer said:

however. It should really go to the scrapyard due to the powerdemands.

That is not a universal thing, granted it's most of the world, but there are areas where electric usage is not wasted because it's needed as heat anyway, or renewable production is excessive for the local demand.

 

Your general sentiment is valid, but there are cases where the benefits of continuing to use outdated hardware to the fullest outweighs the waste of discarding it for newly manufactured product that needed resources and energy to produce. The reduce, reuse, recycle triangle applies.