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They won't fit the weird slots on my motherboard.
But I am pondering how to cheaply upgrade my NAS, so that's an option.
My NAS is only RAID6 12TB and I'm fast running out of space. Would like to move to 18TB with dual parity but I have nothing I can backup the existing NAS to and with older hardware for my existing NAS and a move towards larger drives I'm thinking it's time to move towards ZFS and FreeNAS.
The problem there is how to build a relatively cheap NAS enclosure for 18TB of disks and still have low power usage, high-bandwidth and super-quiet.
The other problem is that ZFS is super RAM hungry. I mean really hungry... at least 1GB RAM for every 1TB of disk... so I really need 24GB here, and if I want to put in bigger disks in future then I'd need the room for either 32GB or ideally 64GB of RAM. That all needs to be ECC RAM too, otherwise you'd get bitrot on write as it buffers through RAM and you know... cosmic rays really do flip bits over a long enough uptime.
Oh, and an enclosure it needs to take 8 drives, and a motherboard that can take all that RAM, and a power system that can segregate each of the drive power feeds.
Current research points towards one of these solutions (all kinda similar):
http://www.mcmayer.net/build-freenas-based-nas-server/
http://blog.brianmoses.net/2015/01/diy-nas-2015-edition.html
http://blog.brianmoses.net/2016/02/diy-nas-2016-edition.htmlFreeNAS has been selected based on this:
http://www.mondaiji.com/blog/other/it/10210-the-hunt-for-the-ultimate-free-open-source-nas-distro
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You could get a few more of your CPUs for $14-$60 now!