Dub Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 I've been prepping to upgrade my server to support more drives and just as I was about to snag all the bits, I can't find the ROMED8-2T motherboard I'd planned to use in stock anywhere for a reasonable price and it seems to have doubled in price everywhere in the last two weeks. I was able to snag a CSE-846 and am expanding from 6+2 to 16+2 /w ideally space for up to 22+2 /w 2 mirred NVME cache drives. I'm currently using an AM4 board but am maxed out on PCI slots to add the additional 2x LSI 9201-8i's to support the additional drives. The backplane in the CSE-846 is a direct pass-through and not an expander so I need direct connections for each drive which is one of the big reasons I was swapping over to the ROMED8-2T. Primary purpose is storage + Plex (lots of hardware encoding using quadro). Ideally I'd love for the board to have a BMC and support at least 5 PCI slots + 2 NVME slots. Doesn't have to be AMD. On-board 10GB NIC would also be icing on the cake and save me another slot. If there's a supermicro alternative that would drop right in, that'd be even better. If you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them! Quote Link to comment
shpitz461 Posted October 11, 2022 Share Posted October 11, 2022 You could get a 16i controller instead of 2x8i, that will save you 1 slot. I had to RMA my ROMED8-2T cause of a NIC not working, ASRock doesn't have any stock of it and it's been a month now that I'm without a board. They offered me the same board with Broadcom NIC controller instead of the original Intel X550, but it appears the new board is missing the rear USB-C port, so I'm still waiting on ASRock to provide a replacement solution. Quote Link to comment
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