I would like to upgrade my offsite Backup Server from Odroid XU4 to a proper ZFS solution, so I can use zfs send to sync pools. I am looking at the Supermicro Tower Server CSE-721TQ-350B. It has 6x Sata Ports. I would like to use 4x 3,5 16TB Drives (Mirror) + 2x SSDs for the OS/VMs (Mirror2).

However, I could not find how or whether it is possible to put in these two extra 2,5 SSDs. There was a mention somewhere that I need an extra bracket, to fix one SSD to the side of the HDD cage, but I could not verify this. Does anyone know?

Apart from this, I am ready to order - anything suspicious to your eye regarding my specs below?

  • Supermicro Tower Server CSE-721TQ-350B Single Xeon E-2000 / i3 CPU
  • Supermicro SC721TQ-350B - Mini Tower - Mini-ITX 350 Watt (FlexATX)
  • Supermicro - X12STL-IF- C252 Chipsatz USB 3.2 Gen1 - 2 x Gigabit LAN (LGA 1200)
  • 6x SATA3 (6Gb/s) via Intel® SW RAID Controller
  • 2x RJ45 GBit LAN (onboard), IPMI onboard
  • Intel Xeon E-2314 - 2.8 GHz - 4 Cores - 4 Threads 8 MB Cache
  • 2HE Dynatron K-650 active Intel Socket LGA 1151, 1200 (E-2000)
  • 2x 32GB (ECC UDIMM DDR4 3200)
  • 2x 480GB Samsung PM897 Datacenter SSD - 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s
  • 4x 16TB WD Ultrastar - 3.5" SATA 6Gb/s 7.2K (WUH721816ALE6L4)

About 2615,23 €.