Workshop • Build Your Own Cloud

Custom Quiet Tower Server Hand-selected Components Performance • Reliability • ZFS

Build your own private cloud — at the office or at home. Affordable and time-proven, based on components from previous generations of enterprise hardware. Save hundreds of dollars while gaining full control over your infrastructure, with performance that still rivals modern systems.

Typical idle power consumption is around 120 – 140 W — roughly $15 – $18 per month at an electricity rate of $0.17 / kWh.
Under full load, consumption may rise to about 2 – 2.5× higher, depending on CPU, disks, and network activity.
Even then, it remains an efficient and quiet system — ideal for continuous 24 / 7 operation.

Platform

Hyper-1

$500.-

Chassis: DARKROCK Storage Master ATX New

PSU: Zalman GigaMax 700W 80 Plus Bronze New

Motherboard: Supermicro X10SRi-F Used BIOS LATEST UPGRADE

System SSD: SAMSUNG PM863a 240GB SSD Used

Hyper-2

$520.-

Chassis: DARKROCK Storage Master ATX New

PSU: Zalman GigaMax 700W 80 Plus Bronze New

Motherboard: Supermicro X10SRL-F Used BIOS LATEST UPGRADE

System SSD: SAMSUNG PM863a 240GB SSD Used

Required parts

Processor + Heatsink

Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 (12 cores / 24 Threads) Used + Dynatron R24 Heatsink New — $60.-

Intel Xeon E5-2696 v4 (22 cores / 44 Threads) Used + Dynatron R24 Heatsink New — $120.-

Memory

64GB DDR4 ECC (2 × 32GB DDR4 PC4 2400Mhz REG ECC Memory) Used — $160.-

128GB DDR4 ECC (4 × 32GB DDR4 PC4 2400Mhz REG ECC Memory) Used — $320.-

256GB DDR4 ECC (8 × 32GB DDR4 PC4 2400Mhz REG ECC Memory) Used — $640.-

Optional Components

SAS Array 12Gbit/s (Host Bus Adapter + SAS HDD + Cables)

None — $0.-

Supermicro AOC-S3008L-L8e-NI22 Used, 4 x 4TB HGST HUS726040AL5210 Used,
1 x Mini-SAS Cable New — $245.-

Supermicro AOC-S3008L-L8e-NI22 Used, 8 x 4TB HGST HUS726040AL5210 Used,
1 x Mini-SAS Cable New — $430.- Used

NVMe Array (Extension Card + NVMe SSD)

None — $0.-

Supermicro AOC-SLG3-2M2 Used, 1 x 2TB Samsung 990 PRO w/ Heatsink New — $270.-

Supermicro AOC-SLG3-2M2 Used, 1 x 4TB Samsung 990 PRO w/ Heatsink New — $400.-

Supermicro AOC-SLG3-2M2 Used, 2 x 2TB Samsung 990 PRO w/ Heatsink New — $470.-

Supermicro AOC-SLG3-2M2 Used, 2 x 4TB Samsung 990 PRO w/ Heatsink New — $730.-

Mellanox Infiniband 56Gbit/s (Network card + Cable)

None — $0.-

ConnectX-3 Pro 56Gbe MCX354AFCCT Used FIRMWARE LATEST UPGRADE,
HP Mellanox 670759-B25 56Gb FDR 3M QSFP+ Used — $60.-

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