[OmniOS-discuss] An alternative to HP Microserver Gen8?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 1 Dec 2016, Josh Coombs wrote:
>
> Supermicro has
> https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/midtower/5028/SYS-5028A-TN4.cfm
> which looks to have potential as a direct competitor to the microserver,
> utilizing the mobo Lauri mentioned.  Supermicro has a bunch of builds based
> around that chassis depending on how much grunt you want, all SATA based
> though.

The Xeon-D version at 
https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/midtower/5028/SYS-5028D-TN4T.cfm 
has a lot more capability than the Atom-based model.

If you are willing to have one boot drive, then you could use the M.2 
slot to add a M.2-based SSD for excellent performance and retaining 
four drive slots for server disks.

It also says that it has 2x 2.5" internal drive bays so you could have 
SATA 6 drives in all, plus the M.2-based SSD.

Bob
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