Motherboard selection help-Supermicro or intel

[CraigD]

I would forsee my long term needs to be capped out at 12 drive.

say if I get the sas controller with breakout cables (ie 8 ports ) for my 6 drives.

if I get a sas expander in future for the subsequent 6 drive. would I need to do any data migration?

No

Have Fun

 

[Chris Moore]

say if I get the sas controller with breakout cables (ie 8 ports ) for my 6 drives.

if I get a sas expander in future for the subsequent 6 drive. would I need to do any data migration?

That is the same upgrade path that I followed and you just add the additional drives as a second vdev in the existing pool. The pool capacity expands and you just keep adding data. The data already in the pool will stay where it is, but new writes will be spread across the entire pool. If you want to equalize the 'old' data across all drives, you can copy it from one directory to another within the pool, then delete the data from the original location. This can improve read performance when accessing the data, but is not strictly necessary.

 

[xh90]

Hi all,
An update to everyone.

I have been waiting for the parts for international shipping. Thankfully all parts arrived safely (still waiting for the sas controller)

In the end i gone with
E3-1230 v2 from aliexpress (USD98)
16GB-1600 hynix ram from ebay (USD116)
X9scm-f from ebay (AUD125 incl shipping)

Thought of sharing that from supermicro website, it actually says for E3 V2 (ivy bridge) cpu and DDR3-1600 ram to work, you need bios 2.0. If you have bios v1.1 you will need a E3 (sandy bridge) to flash it. Apart from that, the motherboard simply will not boot if you are using non ecc ram.

I have to admit that I did not do alot of research when I make the purchase for these components. My plan was to try boot with non-ecc ram as troubleshooting method if any of the components do not work. As the ram came later compared to other components, it was a heartstopping moment when the MB beeping 5short 1 long (ie memory issue). The ram arrived today and the components boot without much issue.

Now, I need to look for aftermarket cooler, casing, PSU and the drives for the next step. I need some advise on the coolers. The motherboard i purchased come with a heatsink (I assumed that there is a fan from the rack mount case that funnel to the heatsink) It comes with a bracket with threaded mounting points on it (like motherboard standoffs).
My question is how do you take off the mounting plate? I dont really have any experience with aftermarket coolers, my experience with heatsinks are really limited to intel stock push-pin coolers.

Thanks