smino Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Guys , What are your thoughts on this? http://www.anandtech.com/show/9060/the-asrock-x99-extreme11-review-eighteen-sata-ports-with-haswelle If it works without issues, it just reduced the cost of ownership of a large array! Would we have the drivers needed ? Quote Link to comment
Fireball3 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Looks nice but ~650€ over here... Probably makes up the cost if you can replace multiple machines by running thin clients in VM's. But I'm not sure if it's worth the effort to have multiple users depending on one piece of hardware. They should have provided a proper fan instead of that eggbeater. Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 ... If it works without issues, it just reduced the cost of ownership of a large array! Very nice board ... but it certainly does NOT reduce the cost of ownership !! For starters, the board is over $600 ($589.99 at the moment at Newegg after a $40 rebate). It requires DDR4 memory, and ideally you should buy registered ECC modules and a Xeon E5 series CPU for it. You could easily spend over $2000 just for the motherboard/CPU/memory ... and a LOT more if you wanted a 14 or 18 core Xeon (e.g. a 14-core E5-2697 is $2769.99 just for the CPU). I don't think there's any doubt it would work ... and work VERY well => but reducing the cost of ownership is NOT one of its characteristics :) [Even with an i7 and unbuffered RAM you'd still be well over $1000 for the board/CPU/memory] Quote Link to comment
StevenD Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 That is a LOT of SATA cables to deal with. I wonder if they will ever start throwing SFF8087 ports or something on these motherboards? Quote Link to comment
bubbaQ Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 The X99 chipset has a ton of SATA ports.... look at almost any X99 mobo. Quote Link to comment
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