January 24, 201412 yr For a 24 drive server and if not looking at price, would you recommend to go 3x IBM M1015 or 3x Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 cards? The board is a Supermicro X9SCM-F or X9SCM-iiF and the case is a Norco 4224 with SAS connectors on the backplane. unRAID will be running natively for the time being but the system should support virtualization, just if need arise. Any hints? Thanks.
January 24, 201412 yr +1 for the M1015 Also using an expander is a good choice..I recommend the Intel RES2SV240 or RES2CV240...works great. You do not need more than 1 M1015 to max-out to 24 disks when using the 24port expander. Using 2 M1015 won't get you more speed, when using normal spinning disks.
January 24, 201412 yr Author You do not need more than 1 M1015 to max-out to 24 disks when using the 24port expander. Using 2 M1015 won't get you more speed, when using normal spinning disks. True. The thing is that 1x M1015 and 1x RES2SV240 would cost as much as 3x M1015... and the X9SCM-iiF has enough slots so I thought about going directly with 3x M1015 instead of using the expander. The RES2SV240 would be a good choice to put in an external DAS case, like the Norco DS-24D. So we have until now, 0 votes for 3x Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 0 votes for 3x M1015 1 vote for 2x M1015 and 1x RES2SV240 1 vote for 1x M1015 and 1x RES2SV240 Would the AOC-SASLP-MV8 allow for ESXi virtualization?
January 24, 201412 yr ...from my own experience, you'll never have enough slots...for a bare metal unRAID yes, but not with an ESXi setup.. One VM for unRAID (M1015), one for a Firewall (quad-NIC), one for a TV-Recorder (quad DVB), one for a PABX (Landline PBX card or NIC). ..even with only one PCIe passed through per VM the X9SCM-iiF does not have plenty.
January 27, 201412 yr What Ford Prefect said. I find the X9SCM-F doesn't have enough slots for me and a Single M1015 and expander when I virtualized my system and passed through my TV tuner cards to a Windows VM. That's why I switched to the Tyan MBs. They are full ATX with x16, x8, x4, 2 x1 and 1 PCI all full on both of my ESXi servers. Thought about getting a PCIe splitter and getting 4 x1s out of the x4 - just too expensive.
January 27, 201412 yr Author Yeah, I see... The Intel S2600IP4 server board looks also awesome, lots of memory and PCIe slots: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/motherboards/server-motherboards/server-board-s2600ip.html
January 27, 201412 yr Yeah, I see... The Intel S2600IP4 server board looks also awesome, lots of memory and PCIe slots: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/motherboards/server-motherboards/server-board-s2600ip.html Like it . Too bad I already spent my budget 9 months+ ago for the next 2-3 years :'(.
January 27, 201412 yr Author And here is a relatively new E5 Xeon Supermicro X9SRL-F that offer samoe memory and IOs but is single CPU only. Looks very nice too and is standard ATX form factor. Four 8x PCIe slots and 3 more 4x PCIe
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