Common Parts
A non-comprehensive list of parts you will find in most of the build guides.
Cases
& Chassis
Rosewill 15-bay 4U rackmount chassis
- SSI-EEB/E-ATX, SSI-CEB/ATX support
- 6 x 120mm fans, 2 x 80mm fans
- 3 x 5 bay 3.5" cages = 15 HDD bays
- no rails included
Phanteks Enthoo Pro tower chassis
- SSI-EEB/E-ATX, SSI-CEB/ATX support (limited support for SSI-EEB+/EE-ATX)
- 4 x 120mm/140mm fans, 1 x 200mm fan
- 6 x 3.5" bays, 3 x 5.25" bays = up to 10 HDD bays
- side window
Fans
& Cooling
Arctic F12 120mm PWM PST 5-pack
- 5 x 120mm PWM fans
- Quiet, efficient operation
- PST = PWM Sharing Technology (daisy chain fans)
- Fan screws included
Arctic F8 80mm PWM PST 5-pack
- 5 x 80mm PWM fans
- Quiet, efficient operation
- PST = PWM Sharing Technology (daisy chain fans)
- Fan screws included
Arctic 12 / Arctic 12 CO heatsink with 92mm fan
- Intel Xeon LGA115X, 1356, 1366, 2011, 2011-3 compatible
- Up to 150W TDP compatible
- Quiet, efficient operation
- Fits in 4U / tower chassis
Arctic 33 Plus heatsink with dual 120mm fans
- Intel Xeon LGA115X, 1356, 1366, 2011, 2011-3 compatible
- Up to 320W TDP compatible
- Quiet, efficient operation
- Fits in 4U / tower chassis
Cables
10 Pack of 18" SATA cables - right angle
- Pretty blue color
SAS cable - SFF8087 to SFF8482
- Splits one SFF8087 into 4 SFF8482
- Compatible with SATA or SAS drives (must use a SAS controller with SAS drives)
- Not compatible with most backplanes, only direct attach to drives
SAS cable - SFF8087 forward breakout - to SATA
- Splits one SFF8087 into 4 SATA
- Compatible with SATA or SAS drives (must use a SAS controller with SAS drives, SAS drives can only be used with appropriate backplane)
- Compatible with direct attach SATA / passthrough backplanes
SAS cable - SFF8087 to SFF 8087
- Male to male SFF8087
- Connect your SAS controller to backplane
- Connect your SAS controller to HP SAS Expander
Thermal Paste
Gelid GC-Extreme Thermal Compound
- A JDM_WAAAT community favorite
- Just about the best performing thermal compound available (outside of liquid metal)
- Drop 5-10C or more over MX-5
Add-on cards
IO Crest 2-port SATA III PCI-E card
- Bootable
- Great if you need SATA III for SSD boot drive / cache drive
- Supports TRIM (SAS HBA does not natively)
- Cheap
Mailiya PCI-E to USB 3.0 4 port card
- Add USB 3.0 (most servers have 2.0 only)
- 2 ports external / rear
- Header for 2 ports internal / front of chassis
- Powered via SATA power
- Low profile option for 1U & 2U applications
NVME M.2 SSD to PCI-E 3.0 x4 card
- For use with NVME M-KEY SSD only
- Regular / low profile bracket support