Supermicro X10 series

[cyberjock]

Ah. I just try to stick with matching pairs/sets. speed/latency has very little bearing compared to quantity. Other than that, its pretty much an "anything goes" rule.

 

[raidflex]

Okay, make my life easier then, more options and better chance to find a deal.

 

[absence]

Hi Nacho, just a quick question about the E3-1230Lv3: how many frequencies are available? I guess ten, from 1800Mhz down to 800Mhz with 100Mhz steps but it's just my supposition. Thank you.

 

[NachoMan77]

Hi Nacho, just a quick question about the E3-1230Lv3: how many frequencies are available? I guess ten, from 1800Mhz down to 800Mhz with 100Mhz steps but it's just my supposition. Thank you.

According to HWinfo under Win7, normal multipliers range from x8 to x18, with a 100Mhz bus (increments?). It also supports a x28 multiplier for Turbo.

 

[absence]

According to HWinfo under Win7, normal multipliers range from x8 to x18, with a 100Mhz bus (increments?). It also supports a x28 multiplier for Turbo.

Yeah, looks right. About Turbo, http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Xeon/Intel-Xeon%20E3-1230L%20v3.html reports up to 2300Mhz for two cores and max 2800 for a single core. So, frequency can spawn from 800Mhz up to 2800Mhz, which is great! I'm dropping the idea of buying the E3-1220Lv3 and go for the E2-1230Lv3 (maybe using it as a 2 or 3 core processor, just in case it requires more cooling than expected).
It would be great to have some power consumption measurements too, if possible!

 

[HolyK]

Well, i am also thinking about X10 MoBo ...

SuperMicro X10SLH-F or SuperMicro X10SL7-F (SAS2 via LSI 2308 which is flashable to IT mode)
Intel Core i3-4340 or Intel Core i3-4130 or maybe only "T" version ... Intel Core i3-4330T or Intel Core i3-4130T
Kingston 16GB (2 x 8GB), ECC - 16GB ECC RAM

 

[Sir.Robin]

Ohh... onboard SAS! Nice... but expensive

I'm leaning towards X9SCM-F now. 6 SATA. And a lot cheaper than the X9SCM-iiF and X10's. Even found a 1st gen E3-1220 el-cheapo. :)

 

[raidflex]

Ohh... onboard SAS! Nice... but expensive

I'm leaning towards X9SCM-F now. 6 SATA. And a lot cheaper than the X9SCM-iiF and X10's. Even found a 1st gen E3-1220 el-cheapo. :)

The X10SLM-F-O has 6 SATA ports also and is about the same price if not cheaper. This is the one I was looking at.

 

[Sir.Robin]

Yeah, but it's 50% more here than the X9SCM-F. Same as the X9SCM-iiF though.

If i go to that price level, i can just aswell go for the X10SLH-F wich has 6x SATA 3.0. CPU is also 50% more than the v1 i found though...

With the money saved i can get 2x8GB Crucial ECC sticks. Thats a good deal. :)

 

[John M. Długosz]

Well, i am also thinking about X10 MoBo ...
SuperMicro X10SL7-F (SAS2 via LSI 2308 which is flashable to IT mode)

OK, I'm officially in lust.
If I spring for that, I might need a little more hand holding to get it working, based on what was said on the first page.

 

[Sir.Robin]

So... impatient... does the X10's work with FreeNAS or what?

 

[raidflex]

The suspense is overwhelming. :D

 

[cyberjock]

So... impatient... does the X10's work with FreeNAS or what?

Buy me one and I'll let you know :P

Other than someone actually trying it knowing it might not work, nobody is going to know for 100% certainty.

 

[vegaman]

My X10-SL7-F just arrived... But I just ordered a Norco case so don't have the cash for CPU/RAM at the moment

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[John M. Długosz]

My X10-SL7-F just arrived... But I just ordered a Norco case so don't have the cash for CPU/RAM at the moment :p

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Hmm, looking up what Norco is, I found this: How a Norco case killed 13TB of our data

What's a good place to buy the X10-SL7-F ?

 

[cyberjock]

Not to mention my little fiasco with hard drives overheating in my Norco RPC-4224 case. And by the time you factor in costs of fixing the limitations of the Norco, you should have just bought a Supermicro case. I know my next case will be a Supermicro. The Norco wasn't all it was cracked up to be.

 

[John M. Długosz]

Worst case: if the USB won't work for running the FreeNAS image, you could always use a scrap drive to boot from, since the board has connections to burn.

 

[Xiche]

So... impatient... does the X10's work with FreeNAS or what?

Since my other post on it got pretty buried and this question has come up multiple times since then - the answer is "yes." Here's a repost of my previous one in the HCL thread:

FreeNAS-9.1.1-RELEASE-x64 (a752d35) on a SanDisk Extreme 16GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive
SUPERMICRO MBD-X10SLM-F-O uATX Server Motherboard LGA
Intel Intel Xeon E3-1230V3 Haswell 3.3GHz LGA 1150 80W Quad-Core
2 x Kingston 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 ECC Unbuffered
4 x Western Digital Red NAS Hard Drive WD20EFRX 2TB IntelliPower 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
Antec P182 Gun Metal Black 0.8mm cold rolled steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
Corsair HX Series 520W Modular PSU

The case and PSU were from a cannibalized desktop, and the drives were from my previous file server. The only issue I ran into was having to disable XHCI mode so that the USB flash drive could be used on the motherboard's internal USB 3.0 port. Without that change, FreeNAS would fail to mount its root partition on the majority of boots. For those who were still curious, I had no issues with either of the built-in NICs, one of which uses the igb driver:

em0@pci0:0:25:0: class=0x020000 card=0x153a15d9 chip=0x153a8086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
class = network
subclass = ethernet

igb0@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x153315d9 chip=0x15338086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
class = network
subclass = ethernet​

 

[vegaman]

Not to mention my little fiasco with hard drives overheating in my Norco RPC-4224 case. And by the time you factor in costs of fixing the limitations of the Norco, you should have just bought a Supermicro case. I know my next case will be a Supermicro. The Norco wasn't all it was cracked up to be.

Yeah, I'd rather get a Supermicro case, but for now it would cost far too much. I'm in New Zealand so I have to add international shipping on top of the price. The cheapest way I've seen to get something like a SC846 is to get a second hand one with hardware already in it - which means a lot more weight to ship.

From what I've read over on Hard Forums that case killing drives was a PSU issue.

Edit: Thanks for the link as well cyberjock. I'd seen your thread before but hadn't read right through it. Sounds like I should see what my temperatures are like before I consider the 120mm fan bulkhead.
Also needing to turn off XHCI would be a bit annoying. It would make the USB3 stick I bought for the purpose kind of pointless.

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[John M. Długosz]

re USB3 (or not): doesn't it only access the USB when booting and suck in the whole image?

I'm not familiar with Supermicro cases.

Xiche: thanks for the details. I see a shopping trip in my near future...