bluepr0 Posted May 3, 2016 Author Share Posted May 3, 2016 uuuummm, very interesting! thanks a lot!. I will try to ask on a case thread and see if I can confirm this, just to make sure. Link to comment
bluepr0 Posted May 9, 2016 Author Share Posted May 9, 2016 Hello guys, I was thinking about buying a lighting fast SSD for my hopefully-soon-to-arrive Supermicro MB. Specs says it has a M2 PCIe 3.0 x2. I'v been searching through Google and I couldn't find exactly what's the speed for a PCIe 3.0 with 2 lanes, but I found this article where they mention that a PCIe 3.0 x4 has a max speed of 3.9 GB/s. Am I right to think that then a PCIe 3.0 x2 has a max speed of 1.95 GB/s? I was looking at the Samsung 950 Pro M2 which says it has a speed of 1.5 GB/s write and 2.5 GB/s read speed. Considering the speed of my M2 slot am I right to think that then I could get a full write speed of 1.5 GB/s and 1.9 GB/s read speed from this SSD?. Or maybe I should take a look to a cheaper SSD that has less read speed? Link to comment
JorgeB Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 I would expect max speed to be around 70 to 80% of the max theoretical bandwidth. Link to comment
00b5 Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 Here's a few things I would like to do: 6-8 HDD + 2 SSDs for cache. Not sure if there's support for PCIe SSDs with NVMe? Backup 2 Macs through TimeMachine (one thing is not clear to me, I know unRAID support AFS but not sure if there's a chance to create a valid TimeMachine volume for usage?) There are nvme support in 6.2 beta, not in 6.1.9 Yes you can create a TimeMachine share. https://i.imgur.com/8vVOpOT.jpg[/img] Man, I can never get my timemachine share to work more than once. I guess I'll give it another go and use your screenshot. I only have the one macbook, and its always on wifi, so maybe that initial backup never works right, I dunno. I've actually started using crashplan on it, and timemachine to an external drive. But its always nice to have it on the network as well. Link to comment
Bjonness406 Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 Here's a few things I would like to do: 6-8 HDD + 2 SSDs for cache. Not sure if there's support for PCIe SSDs with NVMe? Backup 2 Macs through TimeMachine (one thing is not clear to me, I know unRAID support AFS but not sure if there's a chance to create a valid TimeMachine volume for usage?) There are nvme support in 6.2 beta, not in 6.1.9 Yes you can create a TimeMachine share. https://i.imgur.com/8vVOpOT.jpg[/img] Man, I can never get my timemachine share to work more than once. I guess I'll give it another go and use your screenshot. I only have the one macbook, and its always on wifi, so maybe that initial backup never works right, I dunno. I've actually started using crashplan on it, and timemachine to an external drive. But its always nice to have it on the network as well. It is working fine for me. I only have one MacBook pro, and using WiFi too.. Link to comment
HellDiverUK Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 I just built an UnRAID box for a friend. Mostly used for Plex, so needed a lot of CPU power. Specs are: i5-6600K with mild overclock (turbos to 4.4GHz on a single core, 4.2 on 2 and 3 cores, 4.0 on all cores). 16GB Hyper-X DDR4 Asus Z170 Gamer 2x 8TB Red, 2x1TB WD Red, 1x 500GB Crucial BX100 SSD It's FAST. It also idles at 22W with the HDDs spun down, which is pretty good. It's cooled by 1x120mm fan which runs at about 800rpm, and heat sink is an Arctic Freezer 13 CO. Case is a recycled Chieftec Bravo. Drives run at about 35C. Link to comment
bluepr0 Posted May 10, 2016 Author Share Posted May 10, 2016 Oookay, I have got some bad and good news! Bad is that order was taking so long to arrive (because the super micro mb) that I cancelled it Good news is that I have been searching through eBay and I found ES of the recently released E5 v4 processor extremely cheap. I have asked to see if this ES still supports vt-d and vt-x but I might get one of those I have also found an Asus (I think it's workstation grade) that supports IPMI and includes usually the features/capabilities of a gaming MB (Asus X99-WS/IPMI - supposedly with a BIOS update it should get Xeon E5 v4 support) What do you guys think about it? Link to comment
bluepr0 Posted May 10, 2016 Author Share Posted May 10, 2016 Well, after researching the entire evening I think I could go with this, but PLEASE let me know what do you think: MB: Supermicro X10SRL-F CPU: Xeon E5-2684 V4 120w TDP, a bit more than my previous option E3-1230 but I guess they should idle more or less the same (?). This is a ES one, so it's cheap... I'm just waiting for seller to reply about VT-x and VT-d support With this MB I don't get M2 PCie 3.0 4x BUT I get a lot of PCIe slots so works for me as well. Link to comment
bluepr0 Posted May 11, 2016 Author Share Posted May 11, 2016 I've pulled the trigger... AGAIN Hardware - Motherboard: Supermicro X10SRL-F - CPU: Intel Xeon E5 2698 V4 20 cores - RAM: 2x16GB DDR4-2400 ECC REG - PSU: Seasonic Platinium 660 (single rail) - Heatsink: Noctua NH-U12DC i4 - Disks: 2x4TB WD RED NAS, 1x3TB WD, 1x2TB WD, 1x500GB WD - Disk cache: 1x250GB SSD Samsung Evo 850 Software I will be running - unRAID 6.1.9 - Dockers: Plex, Home Assistant, MQTT, iVideon, Influxdb, Grafana, jDownloader, Torrent, duckdns, cadviser - Plugins: IPMI tools, preclear, unbalance - VMs: pfSense 2.3, Win 10, Win 8.1 Link to comment
bluepr0 Posted May 12, 2016 Author Share Posted May 12, 2016 It's done! I've bought all the components... now wait for arrival Hardware - Motherboard: Supermicro X10SRL-F - CPU: Intel Xeon E5 2698 V4 20 cores - RAM: 2x16GB DDR4-2400 ECC REG - PSU: Seasonic Platinium 660 (single rail) - Heatsink: Noctua NH-U12DC i4 - Disks: 2x4TB WD RED NAS, 1x3TB WD, 1x2TB WD, 1x500GB WD - Disk cache: 1x250GB SSD Samsung Evo 850 - Quad LAN IBM PRO/1000 PT Quad Port Gigabit Server Adapter PCI-E Software I will be running - unRAID 6.1.9 - Dockers: Plex, Home Assistant, MQTT, iVideon, Influxdb, Grafana, jDownloader, Torrent, duckdns, cadviser - Plugins: IPMI tools, preclear, unbalance - VMs: pfSense 2.3, Win 10, Win 8.1, El Capitan (I will try to use it for work) Link to comment
bluepr0 Posted May 18, 2016 Author Share Posted May 18, 2016 Some components arriving already! Link to comment
bluepr0 Posted May 25, 2016 Author Share Posted May 25, 2016 The beast is here! 2698v4 20 cores!. Super micro motherboard and RAM should be arriving tomorrow and I will have all I need to build this thing! Link to comment
aptalca Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 Nice. Did you see the 8 (or is it ten?) gamers, 1 cpu video on linustechtips? They use a very similar processor (2 of them) Link to comment
bluepr0 Posted May 25, 2016 Author Share Posted May 25, 2016 Nice. Did you see the 8 (or is it ten?) gamers, 1 cpu video on linustechtips? They use a very similar processor (2 of them) Yeah! they are using the E5 2699v4 which has 22 cores... X2!!! Link to comment
bluepr0 Posted May 30, 2016 Author Share Posted May 30, 2016 Got the beast working since Thursday but forgot to add new pics. As you can see, no case for now. I've been running lots of stability tests plus moving data from old NAS and setting up all services, configuration, etc on unRAID Also check this view, love seeing sooooo many cores Link to comment
JonathanM Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Dude! Your pile of running hard drives is making my brain itch. Is the circuit board of the top 4TB red REALLY sitting directly on top of the drive below it? If you are gonna stack running hard drives, at least put some corrugated cardboard between them and give them some supplemental airflow. I am digging the motherboard box as a way to let the card slot hang over so the video card will stay seated properly. I've done that exact trick a bunch of times. Link to comment
aptalca Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Holy core-amole that looks awesome [emoji1] Link to comment
bluepr0 Posted May 31, 2016 Author Share Posted May 31, 2016 Dude! Your pile of running hard drives is making my brain itch. Is the circuit board of the top 4TB red REALLY sitting directly on top of the drive below it? If you are gonna stack running hard drives, at least put some corrugated cardboard between them and give them some supplemental airflow. I am digging the motherboard box as a way to let the card slot hang over so the video card will stay seated properly. I've done that exact trick a bunch of times. Haha, no no... the circuit part is on the bottom of the disk so it's not touching it. Link to comment
Fischje Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 i've had a question about your Setup and your Apps/Docker-Containers: I want to build a similar System. I was wondering if i can put as many disks to sundown/sleep as i can if i'm at work. at afternoon or eveneing i run much of plex and jdownloader etc. but at day i want to syve energy. is it possible to save power on disk-spindown in your Setup? Link to comment
bluepr0 Posted June 1, 2016 Author Share Posted June 1, 2016 Yep, I've configured unRaid to spin down the disks if they don't have I/O access for more than 15 minutes. If you will run dockers on the cache as I do then when using Plex it will start only the disk that contains the file you want to watch. It's pretty neat! Link to comment
Fischje Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 ahh thank you, then i will build my system and reply again for my system Link to comment
bluepr0 Posted June 11, 2016 Author Share Posted June 11, 2016 I ended up not buying a rack mount case and going with a normal one for now... Here's the end result Link to comment
vincent2712 Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 Hi!! have you test with 2-3 graphic card (pass-through)? I want buy X10SRL-F but with 3 VMs in same time. It's possible? Link to comment
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