Nope, this is not a new Terminator model … this is about the Dell Poweredge T320 system (yes, an older server model)
The official page with more details:
https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/product-support/product/poweredge-t320/overview
Now, why am posting this?
I found myself needing some hardware for my home lab however this time I needed something that would run in the house (not garage), not use too much power, be on the cheap side, be silent, be compatible with the parts I already had in the garage and pack a good punch … and given all these filters this was what matched and I felt I should share this with you (the reader) in case you need something like this for your own purposes.
The trick to make is use less power:
– connect only one of its power supplies to the mains (as this is a home server, redundancy at that layer is not that big of a deal) – this saves about 20 – 25W
– do not use the raid card to setup some fancy raid level … simply configure the raid card to expose each drive as its own raid0 and make sure you disable all caches on the drives and the raid card as you will be able to setup software raid and use the linux cache or some other writeback on ssd, etc – this saves about 20 – 50W
You’ll find these on ebay in various configurations ranging from 70 – 100£ all the way up to +1000£ … the trick is to pick the one that makes most sense to you (I got my hands on one of these for <100£ because I had some RAM and HDDs to chuck in it )
Enjoy!