Joined on 07/04/09
Quiet and well made
Pros: Very quiet. My PS3 and Xbox 360 are each louder. Seems sturdy, well made, and the cabling is good.
Cons: A little expensive, but worth it
Great memory
Pros: No crashes. Seems to run fast and cool. Easy to insert.
Cons: While not a comment on the product itself, i always wish ECC memory was cheaper but there just isn't the market for it. Sigh
Overall Review: Great memory. I have 16GB of it now and love it. Would buy again. Great value vs the 8GB sticks that are super expensive.
Great value
Pros: Runs really cool (the heatsink without fan is cool to the touch, not even warm). Inexpensive 4 core for your server. Came with a really nice heatsink, but it didn't fit in my 1U server (server came with passive heatsinks anyway). I want to get another one of them to increase my server to 8-cores
Cons: None.
Overall Review: Great processor. No crashes so far.
Raid
Pros: Update to prior review
Cons: As an update to my prior review I'd like to note that the RAID on this isn't a full hardware raid, but is a chipset assisted software raid. Nowhere on the product is this mentioned, but its pretty important.
Would buy again
Pros: Great value. Supermicro always does the best job at including all screws and such clearly labeled in small bags. The case is great and clean inside. The manual is pretty clear about most stuff. I love that it included two (already thermal pasted) heatsinks, because the standard xeon oem processor fan doesn't fit... at all.
Cons: It's loud. Yes, all 1U servers are loud, but I've put it in two racks and its louder than any of the other servers in either of them. Not much louder, but definitely louder. I'm having some problems with the hardware RAID and having a difficult time finding great documentation about it. Supermicro stuff just isn't talked about as much online since its not a 'consumer brand'. The fault may be a bad hard drive however, so I don't want to squarely blame it on the RAID controller. Just noting that I do have a problem.
Overall Review: Supermicro really makes some of the best inexpensive cases and mobos. I had a huge workstation tower from them 10 years ago, and their quality has maintained to be just as high as it was then- if not better.