February 17, 201412 yr I have been fascinated by some of the builds on Raj's Greenleaf-Technology Blog. Especially this one below, which I am thinking of adopting for myself. I already have the drives, but I was looking for, was to upgrade to a different motherboard, case etc. I was hoping to use the Intel i3-2600 (Sandybridge) CPU I have in my current setup in this particular machine. Can anyone let me know whether they had put this together and whether it actually runs stably? Raj says that the prototypes have not been tested, and the tested setups on the Wiki page are so old that most of the components are out of stock. 20 Drive Beast (rackmount) Mobo: Supermicro X9SCM-F-O CPU: Intel Pentium G620 (feel free to upgrade to Intel i3 2100 or other Intel i3 2100 series CPUs) --> I will be using a Sandybridge i7-2600 CPU instead since I already have this. RAM: Kingston 8GB DDR3 1333 (8GB of RAM may be overkill, but I can’t find any compatible 4GB kits!) PSU: CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX650 V2 650W Case: Norco 4220 SATA Expansion Cards: Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 8-Port SAS/SATA Add-on Card x 2 IBM ServerRAID M1015 x 2 – Replacement Option (As the Supermicro cards are difficult to obtain outside of the US, unRAID forum user seanant is currently selling these M1015 cards internationally. They are reported to work well with unRAID, though I personally have not used them.) Cables: NORCO C-SFF8087-4S Discrete to SFF-8087 (Reverse breakout) Cable x 1 1m 30AWG Internal Mini SAS 36pin (SFF-8087) Male to Mini SAS 36pin (SFF-8087) Male Cable x 4 No SATA cables required Fanplate: Norco 120mm fanplate *optional Fans: (replacing the stock fans is optional, but recommended if quiet performance is desired) Nexus PWM Series D12SL-12PWM 120mm Case Fan x 3 *optional ARCTIC COOLING ACF8 Pro PWM 80mm Case Fan x 2 *optional Hard Drives: Green drives (5400 rpm or 5900 rpm), such as WD Green, Hitachi CoolSpin, Samsung EcoGreen, and Seagate LP Cost: $1005 (without the optional fans/fanplate) + shipping + cost of hard drives Capacity: 38 TB Expandability: None.
February 17, 201412 yr Supermicro site suggests i5 and i7 chips aren't supported on that motherboard. http://www.supermicro.co.uk/products/motherboard/xeon/c202_c204/x9scm-f.cfm
February 17, 201412 yr Author Thanks, Chris. I guess I will be looking into the X10-SLM with a E3-1230v3 with the rest of this config then. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
February 18, 201412 yr Author So I wanted to find out an important piece of information. I am initrigued by the X10-SL7-F-0 Supermicro board with the Xeon E3-1230v3 CPU. One advantage I was thinking is that as Chris mentioned, the motherboard has built-in 8x port SAS controller via LSI 2308. My question is how I get this interfaced with the Norcor 4220 case: Raj's description using a standard motherboard like the X9-SCM suggests the following cables: NORCO C-SFF8087-4S Discrete to SFF-8087 (Reverse breakout) Cable x 1 1m 30AWG Internal Mini SAS 36pin (SFF-8087) Male to Mini SAS 36pin (SFF-8087) Male Cable x 4 So as I understand it, since this motherboard has 8x internal SAS ports, this acts like one of the two Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 8 port add-on cards I was going to buy. In other words, with this motherboard, I only need 1x AOC-SASLP-MV8 cards correct? 4 motherboard SATA3 ports --> Reverse breakout cable --> mini-SAS connector #1 in Norcor-4220 2 x SFF-8087 on the AOC-SASLP-MV8 --> 1m 30AWG Internal Mini SAS 36pin (SFF-8087) Male to Mini SAS 36pin (SFF-8087) Male Cable x 2 --> mini-SAS connector in the Norcor 4220 8 motherboard SAS ports (in the X10-SL7-F-0) board --> How do I connect this to the mini-SAS connector in the Norcor-4220 Pictures of the motherboard show 8 x SATA-ish looking (blue) ports, but no SFF-8087 connectors like those seen in the SATA controller (AOC-SASLP-MV8). So to connect these, individual 8 ports to the mini-SAS connector on the Norcor, do I need to purchase an additional two breakout cables? Picture of the motherboard's 8x SAS ports and the 6x SATA ports I'd love if someone can give me insight into how I would connect this motherboard to the Norcor?
February 18, 201412 yr So as I understand it, since this motherboard has 8x internal SAS ports, this acts like one of the two Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 8 port add-on cards I was going to buy. In other words, with this motherboard, I only need 1x AOC-SASLP-MV8 cards correct? Correct, and as posted above you will need slightly different cables :- NORCO C-SFF8087-4S Discrete to SFF-8087 (Reverse breakout) Cable x 3 (Motherboard to Backplane) 1m 30AWG Internal Mini SAS 36pin (SFF-8087) Male to Mini SAS 36pin (SFF-8087) Male Cable x 2 (SASLP-MV8 to Backplane)
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