curruscanis
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I am planning the following purchasing - budget is between $2500-$3500
Main Chassis and components via Ebay:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/SUPERMICRO...210-8I-JBOD-/172518422871?hash=item282ae63957
Add 12 x 2TB hard drives to start - either SATA or SAS - probably HGST drives purchased from Amazon
SLOG: Intel p900 SSD SATA drive - or the PCI variant
https://www.amazon.com/Intel-Optane...TF8&qid=1521481720&sr=8-1&keywords=intel+900p
The Main Chassis and components of the ebay listing are:
SUPERMICRO 4U 846BA-R920B
Motherboard - X9DRI-LN4F+
Chassis - 846BA-R920B
CPU's - DUAL INTEL XEON PROCESSOR E5-2680 EIGHT CORE 20M CACHE 2.70GHZ
Memory - 192GB MEMORY (24X 8GB) DDR-3 ECC REG
HBA's - 3X LSI 9210-8I
Backplane - SAS846A
Power supplies - DUAL PWS-920P-SQ
Boot disks: dual 32gb Disk On Modules - mirrored
SLOG - Intel 900p Sata - mounted internally
So this all comes in a bit over $3100.00, which is about the midpoint of my budget, the goals are primarily ESXi datastore storage, open drive bays allow for later expansion with larger drives. My initial goals are testing of FreeNAS is a limited production environment to see how it performs for VM storage performance.
I realize that I can have a better SLOG drive, but only at a fairly higher price point.
The system will be in a controlled environment, noise is not an issue.
I have done a fair amount of research about whether to use a alternate backplane that will allow for expansion of a single HBA to 24 drives or the use of the 3 LSI cards that seems to be the alternative method. If someone can discuss the pro's and con's of this I am open to learning.
From previous posts on other builds, I have chosen this system for the following reasons... Maxed memory, highest speed CPU given budget constraints for a test system, SLOG device also based on budget constraints vs a higher end Intel Optane p3700
If anyone ( Chris ) sees any major glaring issues with this build please let me know, if you have suggestions how to make it better within similar budget I am all ears.
I plan on purchasing this week so thank you for your quick replies and assistance. This forum and its members and posts have been of invaluable help.
Main Chassis and components via Ebay:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/SUPERMICRO...210-8I-JBOD-/172518422871?hash=item282ae63957
Add 12 x 2TB hard drives to start - either SATA or SAS - probably HGST drives purchased from Amazon
SLOG: Intel p900 SSD SATA drive - or the PCI variant
https://www.amazon.com/Intel-Optane...TF8&qid=1521481720&sr=8-1&keywords=intel+900p
The Main Chassis and components of the ebay listing are:
SUPERMICRO 4U 846BA-R920B
Motherboard - X9DRI-LN4F+
Chassis - 846BA-R920B
CPU's - DUAL INTEL XEON PROCESSOR E5-2680 EIGHT CORE 20M CACHE 2.70GHZ
Memory - 192GB MEMORY (24X 8GB) DDR-3 ECC REG
HBA's - 3X LSI 9210-8I
Backplane - SAS846A
Power supplies - DUAL PWS-920P-SQ
Boot disks: dual 32gb Disk On Modules - mirrored
SLOG - Intel 900p Sata - mounted internally
So this all comes in a bit over $3100.00, which is about the midpoint of my budget, the goals are primarily ESXi datastore storage, open drive bays allow for later expansion with larger drives. My initial goals are testing of FreeNAS is a limited production environment to see how it performs for VM storage performance.
I realize that I can have a better SLOG drive, but only at a fairly higher price point.
The system will be in a controlled environment, noise is not an issue.
I have done a fair amount of research about whether to use a alternate backplane that will allow for expansion of a single HBA to 24 drives or the use of the 3 LSI cards that seems to be the alternative method. If someone can discuss the pro's and con's of this I am open to learning.
From previous posts on other builds, I have chosen this system for the following reasons... Maxed memory, highest speed CPU given budget constraints for a test system, SLOG device also based on budget constraints vs a higher end Intel Optane p3700
If anyone ( Chris ) sees any major glaring issues with this build please let me know, if you have suggestions how to make it better within similar budget I am all ears.
I plan on purchasing this week so thank you for your quick replies and assistance. This forum and its members and posts have been of invaluable help.