I am looking to purchase a HPDL370 G6 from a friend (used). It currently has 2 x Xeon W5580 Quad core CPU @ 3.20 ghz.
It will be used as:
1. NAS server
2. Plex transcoder
3. General use
Question is:
1. the CPU are a bit outdated - may I replace it with a newer CPU ? Like a I5/I7 or new Xeon E3 or E5/E7?
if above is not possible:
2. may I replace the motherboard with another ATX motherboard and then get new CPUs when I decide?
Also, I want to get rid of the SAS drives and put in SATA. How expensive are the enclosures/backpanes to replace? I already have the drives.
Are the machines loud? I prefer not having something making lot of fan noise. Also, I'm looking to see that machine is not going to draw a lot of power while being idle.