Any objections to SM X10DRi?

[rokeeffe]

Hi all,

 

I've been lurking a fair while on this forum and feel that I have a fairly good handle on what will work for Unraid.

 

My present parts list (all sale/reduced items) consists of:

 

Fractal Designs R2 XL case

2 x SanDisk Extreme 480Gb SSD

2 x Samsung EVO 500Gb

1 x CM 1000w V series

 

Overkill on the PSU I know but of all the types of kills you can have, I usually go for the 'over' type.

 

Undecided on CPU and RAM at the mo. Certainly 2 x E5 v3's and 64Gb RAM, but what flavours I do not know yet.

Disk wise, I will probably go with 2 x 6Tb WD Red pro for parity, along with 4Tb WD Reds for data. Hopefully dual parity should be live by the time I piece everything together.

 

I'm just wondering if there is anything glaringly obvious that would make the X10DRi a poor choice?

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X10DRi.cfm

 

I definitely intend to have a Win 10 VM with GPU pass through for photo editing.

 

Apart from that, a couple of Linux VMs for playing around with, probably will try tie a weather station in to one of them, various docker instances for media (sickrage/beard, Plex, OpenVPN etc). I may well also try to tie back home security cameras to the box too.

It's quite open ended as for final purposing.

 

Thanks for many hours interesting reading so far. This project is the first in a long absence from any tech related personal stuff. Looking forward to getting stuck in.

[lazant]

Hey, just wondering if you finished this build and how it's working? I'm considering the X10DRi-T4+ along with 2 E5-2630 v4s and wanted to check if you had any issues. Thanks.

[rokeeffe]

Hi Lazant,

 

Apologies, I only noticed this reply now. A couple of life type things came up like buying a house and getting engaged so I haven't had time or funds to invest in the original plan.

 

The current list of equipment I have assembled stands at:

 

Fractal Designs R2 XL case

2 x SanDisk Extreme 480Gb SSD

2 x Samsung EVO 500Gb

1 x CM 1000w V series

3 x WD Red 4Tb NAS

1 x Noctua NH-U12DX i4

1 x X10SRL-F

1 x Icy Dock hot swap cage for the SSDs

 

So as you can see I've abandoned the plan for dual sockets and that particular board, that was purely financial, a lot happened very quickly! Everything I have is assembled, I just need the CPU and RAM to complete the picture to and iron out any build niggles.

 

I am planning the following to finish.

E5 1650 v3

32Gb ECC RAM (4x8Gb)

A couple more 4TB drives and a 6Tb drive for parity over time.

 

Sorry I can't be of more help!

R.