Hi John, On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 07:46:25PM +0100, John Hearns via GLLUG wrote: > I did like the Xeon-D at that time. I wanted to position them as servers > for bioinformatics (gene sequencing). > I never quite achieved that and do regret it.
They've been lovely little servers for the last 5 years, been very happy with them, and the short depth meant it was refreshing to be able to fit one in my backpack and rock up to Telehouse on foot! They also only draw about 48VA at idle. The chassis is only 287mm deep: https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/chassis/1U/510/SC510T-203B https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/X10SDV-F But there's no upgrade path and at 1 socket / 8 cores @2GHz / 128G RAM per 1U they are just not dense enough any more, even for someone like me who is not trying to do anything particularly dense. :) https://ibin.co/63ukcXdxuCBR.jpg Maybe still useful for someone. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug