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

C. L. Martinez carlopmart at gmail.com
Fri Dec 2 07:40:47 UTC 2016

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    On Thu  1.Dec'16 at 21:27:33 -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
    > 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

    Many thanks Bob and Josh. Both, they seems a perfect replacement for microserver gen8. But what about the noise?? I will use it as a home NAS :))

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    Greetings,
    C. L. Martinez

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