Xeon-D

[cplmayo]

Been reading a lot on here and in other places about Xeon-D; thinking this will be my next build. Found this just now and was wondering if anyone has seen this board yet. It looks like it could be and ideal board for a home FreeNAS build.

http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=D1520D4I#Specifications

 

[religiouslyconfused]

Supermicro makes these Xeon D chips as well. They can support a lot of ram and there is a 16 core/32 thread version as well. It does seem nice, but a little overpriced when compared to Skylake and Haswell xeon's such as the E3, but it does take almost as much ram as LGA2011-3 and less power. Could definitely work out, but SAMBA is only single threaded/core, so a faster core is better. Some supermicro Xeon D boards have 10Gbe so it does make it more future proof.

 

[religiouslyconfused]

Also Xeon D boards are rather expensive as some can cost around 800-900 USD but that also includes the CPU soldered on the board.

 

[cplmayo]

I haven't looked into E3 Xeon's much but I feel like the price per watt on Xeon-D would be better and the amount of RAM you can utilize is crazy.

 

[Jailer]

You can build a socket 2011 system cheaper if you need that much memory and it will have much more horsepower when needed too.

 

[andr3wyong]

GIGABYTE Launches its Line of Server Boards Based on the Intel Xeon D-1500 Product Family

So, Gigabyte just launched these Xeon D boards… finally, ITX boards with (2) SFP+ ports!

My current set-up (AsRock C2750D4I) means I have to choose between a PCIe HBA (LSI SAS2008) + 2x1GbE or a PCIe NIC and risking some drives to the Marvell SATA controllers.

With this new board, I can get more RAM (DDR4 RDIMMs), integrated 10GbE (PHYs connect directly to the Xeon D) and a solid HBA (LSI SAS2008) and still have everything fit nicely into my U-NAS NSC-800.

Really excited for these, though it should be a while till they show up in retail (the press release is barely 2 days old)…