I'm looking at an E200-8D. Single unit for dev/test of automation. My dev/test gear is so freaking slow that I'm not agile enough. Work paying for it so I have a decent budget. @User I'm looking at your blog with shopping list. That still the most current list to consider?

I'm looking to refresh my (home) lab and slowness is starting to kick my ass. When you say Dev/Test automation are you talking about testing something like build scripts across multiple VM's?

yea. it's to develop automation scripts and test them quickly with the intent to move into production. Not for home lab purposes.

I want the NVMe! 🙂

constantly tweaking MDT task sequences and re-deploying the OS takes a lot of time on the gear I use today.

None of my old servers have NVME support so that's why I'm looking at inexpensive gear

heh, I've been toying with a components-build NAS with NVME as the only storage (aggregated with Storage spaces or a linux distro like FreeNAS). My wants are 10Gb NIC + Switch + mobo with three 16x PCI-e slots and some PCI-e to M.2 adapters

I can get E200-8D for $799 through my wholesaler

are you going to use VM's on that switch? or just for storage (or as a host to do both?)

yes Automation Framework VMs

yeah, @User! Wake up! 😄

didn't @User blog about his latest server build?

what was the article with the shopping list @Steve Elgan?

thanks man. Curious to see what @User comes back with. 🙂

kind of interesting to see the price differences now compared to when he posted that

like the DDR4 is much cheaper now (half price?)

same with the SSD/NVME

oh, memory is ECC?

guess that's the expense

Prices from my wholesaler 1 x Samsung 970 EVO 2TB - NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 SSD (MZ-V7E2T0BW) $575 4 x 32GB DDR4 PC4 19200 (you have to use Registered ECC to support 128GB) $335 each - $1340 total 1 x Samsung 860 EVO 1TB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-76E1T0B/AM) $159 1 x E200-8D - $799

I’m here :-)

Shopping list is current, just bought 3x SM & 970 1TB EVO today

Cool

Will reuse existing memory from SuperMicro SuperServer

I only really need 1 server at this time so I don't see a need for a 10Gb QNAP or 10Gb switch

So 64GB per host for now

Exactly, no need for NAS

Better off buying newer, faster, bigger NVMe each year

ok pulling the trigger