Fitting a proprietary Supermicro X9SRW-F into a standard 3U 836 case (#P23)
Blogging’s a bit tedious right now, as shipping parts is rather slow at the moment, and there’s so much going on at work…
This has been in the making for the past two months now. Some very nice dude gave away “old” servers at a popular German hardware forum, but requested local pickup due to the difficult and expensive shipping of entire server chassis. These were decommissioned colocation servers from his own business, aged 7 to 12 years and no longer viable for 24/7 operation – still decent machines for occasional use. […]
Well, everybody wants them, but there are no spares left and they die left right and center...