Hello gentlemen,
(Follow-up of this thread which I hijacked)
I'm looking for a new system for my TrueNas. Here are my needs and my findings so far, I would appreciate any feedback!
New hardware requirements :
X11SCA + Xeon E-2136
OR
X11SRA-RF + Xeon W-2223.
For the X11SCA, it has a LGA1151 allowing 16 PCIe lines in total, and the MB specification says that the 2 PCIe slot are running at x8/x8. So how would behave the 2 M2 which are supposed to run at 4x each ? Are both x8/x8 links shrinked to x4/x4 to let some lines for the M2 ? Or are the M2 slots condemned ?
I have not checked X10 platform with LGA2011 socket though.
(Follow-up of this thread which I hijacked)
I'm looking for a new system for my TrueNas. Here are my needs and my findings so far, I would appreciate any feedback!
New hardware requirements :
- The motherboard must (at least):
- Support 2 M2 slots
- Support 2 PCIe (not necessarily 16x) but separated by at least 2 slot (the GPU is 2 slots wide)
- Fit in a desktop case (so no exotic format, must stick to xATX but the GPU width requirement almost excludes anything except ATX and E-ATX)
- The CPU must handle very little workload...
- RAM must be ECC (I've read too much on this forum now...)
- 8 * 16TB SATA drives
- 3 * SATA SSD 120G
- 3 * NVME SSD 1TB
- LSI SAS3008 IT mode
- FAN, case, PSU, screws, cat hairs...
- 96TB of media server with extremely static data and large file (if you think of any tuning recommendation)
- Encoding/Decoding supported by the GPU so no need for a powerful CPU
- 5~ VMs : media server, windows gaming station, some containers... (64GB RAM may be enough)
- TrueNas must be installed on a pair of SATA SSD connected to the MB
- The VMs must run on a pair of NVME SSD connected to the MB
- I have excluded X11SR1-F since it has only one M2 slot
- I have excluded all board with LGA3647 since none of them seems to have 2 M2 slots.
- I have excluded X12 and X13 boards
X11SCA + Xeon E-2136
OR
X11SRA-RF + Xeon W-2223.
For the X11SCA, it has a LGA1151 allowing 16 PCIe lines in total, and the MB specification says that the 2 PCIe slot are running at x8/x8. So how would behave the 2 M2 which are supposed to run at 4x each ? Are both x8/x8 links shrinked to x4/x4 to let some lines for the M2 ? Or are the M2 slots condemned ?
I have not checked X10 platform with LGA2011 socket though.