July 21, 201411 yr I have this same MB for sale :-) and also 2 2419 CPUs and about 48GB of RAM BIOS is updated to 3.5 it works well with unraid if you are not planning to do VM on it. or at least no doing any PCI pass-through (so running UnRaid V6 as Host and simple Gusets will work fine.) even though SM says MB supports IOMMU (I know CPU supports it) it is not 100% and PCI pass through not working. other than that it is great board. IPMI is a godsend, I miss it terribly now.
January 5, 201511 yr Where can I get a hot swap tray for a 2.5" SSD drive, for the TAMS 24 bay supermicro chassis that I bought last May? I have tried 2 types of 2.5"->3.5" adapters from the local computer store; neither is designed for the position of the SATA connector on the SuperMicro chassis. I believe that when I got the chassis, there was an internal mount for a 2.5" drive but I completely gutted the case to replace the power supply and fans.
July 4, 201511 yr Just fired mine up from a long hiatus in storage. Server powers on, fans work, everything looks alive, plugin a network cable and I see link lights. I don't see any VGA appear nor do the hard drives spin up. I am seeing 2 blinking lights on the first 2 hard drives and that's all. Other than that all the drives stay dead and there is no display. I wonder if Father time finally came and collected this server.
October 30, 201510 yr anyone? i'm still running the same one that we bought around the same time... its been on 24/7 since launch! sorry to hear your's is not booting I hope it stays with me for a few more years! In fact, I am not running my second similar unit from the same seller! Just couldn't say no to the value
October 30, 201510 yr I still have mine too. I had been trying to do a vm server on it for a while went through multiple setups. tried Proxmox, oVirt and multiple others. I think I am staying with CentOS7+KVM/QEMU managed by Cloudmin/WebMin combination. all data is on a BTRFS raid1 array for now. once all is up and running might convert to raid6. FYI>> I had re-purposed the server under different MB last year, but returned the original MB back. and when I did that I misplaced the MB post and in shorted out. I had the same symptoms as Bigdady92, fans run, some blinking light on a panel but nothing else. in my case though, server would just turn off in a minute or so. had to hunt down the extra post I had left on the case.
October 30, 201510 yr FYI>> I had re-purposed the server under different MB last year, but returned the original MB back. and when I did that I misplaced the MB post and in shorted out. I had the same symptoms as Bigdady92, fans run, some blinking light on a panel but nothing else. in my case though, server would just turn off in a minute or so. had to hunt down the extra post I had left on the case. What do you mean motherboard post? the seperator from the case to the motherboard? A standoff?
October 30, 201510 yr yes , for a second I forgot how they are called :-) I used desktop MB to see if I can load up xen server and do pathrough as the oem board does not support this functionality in xen or esxi. when I swap the boards I missed one of the sandoffs. but I also had similar experince when I drop small screw in the case of my HTPC. I did not notice it in time and had to take all apart.
December 4, 201510 yr I'm still running mine after 3 years. I've replaced a few of the fans but left the PSU's in there (its in a cupboard under the stairs so have now got use to the noise). Up to 26Tb in storage in it so far and on Unraid 6 with crashplan, plex, sab, sickbeard and couchpotato all running in docker and then a couple of test Vm's that I run when needed. I did upgrade the ram to 24gb to help support those as well. Only thing I never tracked down is the slow speed of the parity checks but they do completed after 18 hours so haven't worried about it so far.
December 4, 201510 yr Mine is still going strong. That thing is a beast. I replaced the PSU's to get it quieter and made sure to set the fans to low in the bios. It doesn't run hot. Upgraded to cpus and 24GB of ram. It does everything I want except run a Mac OS VM.
April 13, 201610 yr Mine is still running strong too. 14 drives installed, just upgraded to Unraid 6.1.9 - no problems. Slow parity at 57MB/sec but I've got the time. I ended up installing the 120mm fan wall and a 750W power supply - those stock fans were too much!
April 15, 201610 yr I am late to the game but JUST GOT IN on this awesome server deal! They have them back at 239 http://www.ebay.com/itm/152016795815?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT Shipping is 70 bucks, and this will be hella loud unmodded, but overall the savings will be very nice.
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