February 17, 20197 yr Build’s Name: Spartacus Plex 4.0 CPU: Xeon E5-2680v3 Motherboard: SuperMicro X10SRM-F Chassis: Node 804 (in place, still searching for short depth storage chassis) Drives: 8 x 10TB WD Golds (in place) Drives: 2 x Optane 900P 280GB 2.5" drives for docker appdata/high usage VMs Drives: 4 x Samsung 950 Pro 512GB NVMe drives for cache pool / Optimized Media Drives: 1 x Micron 5100 Pro 960GB drive for Downloads/lower priority VMs RAM: 64GB DDR4 (in place) Add-in Cards: Intel X520-DA2 10Gp SFP+ dual NIC Power Supply: EVGA SuperNova 650w Gold PSU Usage Profile: Main purpose of this upgrade it to give myself a little more transcoding headroom (Xeon E5-2680v3 should be about a 50% performance increase in this area) over my Xeon D-1541 while also giving me some extra vCPUs for VMs. Also adding a lot of high performance flash storage for VMs and docker appdata. I want to separate my Downloads from these high performance shares as I do a lot of downloading/extracting which can affect performance. Edited February 19, 20197 yr by IamSpartacus
February 18, 20197 yr That’s fantastic! Great upgrade. How many more 10tb drives will your case hold? Or will you upgrade to 14tb and 16tb drives?Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
February 18, 20197 yr Author 1 hour ago, jrd680 said: That’s fantastic! Great upgrade. How many more 10tb drives will your case hold? Or will you upgrade to 14tb and 16tb drives? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I'm at the physical limit for 3.5" drives. When I run out of space I will need to move to a larger case but that wont be anytime soon. I have a lot of media but I'm not a hoarder by any means. I will often delete unwanted media when I want to add large chunks.
February 18, 20197 yr On 2/17/2019 at 9:55 AM, IamSpartacus said: Build’s Name: Spartacus Plex 4.0 CPU: Xeon E5-2680v3 Motherboard: SuperMicro X10SRM-F Chassis: Node 804 (in place, still searching for short depth storage chassis) Drives: 8 x 10TB WD Golds (in place) Drives: 2 x Optane 900P 280GB 2.5" drives for docker appdata/high usage VMs Drives: 4 x Samsung 950 Pro 512GB NVMe drives for cache pool / Optimized Media Drives: 1 x Micron 5100 Pro 960GB drive for Downloads/lower priority VMs RAM: 64GB DDR4 (in place) Add-in Cards: Intel X520-DA2 10Gp SFP+ dual NIC Power Supply: EVGA SuperNova 650w Gold PSU Usage Profile: Main purpose of this upgrade it to give myself a little more transcoding headroom (Xeon E5-2680v3 should be about a 50% performance increase in this area) over my Xeon D-1541 while also giving me some extra vCPUs for VMs. Also adding a lot of high performance flash storage for VMs and docker appdata. I want to separate my Downloads from these high performance shares as I do a lot of downloading/extracting which can affect performance. what was the total cost?
February 18, 20197 yr Author 1 minute ago, Ladrek said: what was the total cost? Of the upgrade or total? Anything that says "in place" was part of my previous server.
February 18, 20197 yr Just now, IamSpartacus said: Of the upgrade or total? Anything that says "in place" was part of my previous server. Total and isn't 803 same as a node 304? Edited February 18, 20197 yr by Ladrek
February 18, 20197 yr Author 1 minute ago, Ladrek said: Total and isn't 803 same as a node 304? I will add it up in a few. https://www.kitguru.net/components/cases/bill-smyth/fractal-launches-biggest-node-ever-with-the-804/
February 18, 20197 yr Author E5-2680v3: $275 used Noctua i4 HSF: $55 SuperMicro X10SRM-F: $285 Node 804: $50 WD Golds: $325each x 8 = $2,600 Optane 900p's: $270each x 2 = $540 Samsung Pro 950's: $350 total for all 4 (used) Micron 5100 Pro: $300 DDR4 RAM: $210 per 32GB x 2 = $410 Intel X520-DA2: $80 SuperMicro AOC-SLG3-2M2: $50 ASRock Quad M.2 AOC: $100 EVGA SuperNova 650w PSU: $75 Noctua Fans: $20 x 5 = $100 TOTAL: $5,270 This wasn't all purchased at once obviously, it was gradual. Although I did purchase all 8 WD Golds at once last year. I'm also selling my Xeon D-1541 board (should net $850+ on that) that was in my server prior to this upgrade which should recoop a good chunk of the most recent upgrade which as the CPU, MoBo, Optanes, and 950 Pros. Edited February 18, 20197 yr by IamSpartacus
February 18, 20197 yr 1 hour ago, IamSpartacus said: E5-2680v3: $275 used Noctua i4 HSF: $55 SuperMicro X10SRM-F: $285 Node 804: $50 WD Golds: $325each x 8 = $2,600 Optane 900p's: $270each x 2 = $540 Samsung Pro 950's: $350 total for all 4 (used) Micron 5100 Pro: $300 DDR4 RAM: $210 per 32GB x 2 = $410 Intel X520-DA2: $80 SuperMicro AOC-SLG3-2M2: $50 ASRock Quad M.2 AOC: $100 EVGA SuperNova 650w PSU: $75 Noctua Fans: $20 x 5 = $100 TOTAL: $5,270 This wasn't all purchased at once obviously, it was gradual. Although I did purchase all 8 WD Golds at once last year. I'm also selling my Xeon D-1541 board (should net $850+ on that) that was in my server prior to this upgrade which should recoop a good chunk of the most recent upgrade which as the CPU, MoBo, Optanes, and 950 Pros. oh okay
May 8, 20197 yr Curious why you didnt go with a Ryzen build or a I9 build? Just kinda wondering which direction to go in.
May 8, 20197 yr Author 10 hours ago, Jamshm said: Curious why you didnt go with a Ryzen build or a I9 build? Just kinda wondering which direction to go in. I typically go with server CPUs for two reasons: IPMI and PCIe lanes. That said, I actually wound up selling this server. It worked amazingly well but I had a gaming PC with a Threadripper 1950x and dual 1080Ti's just sitting idle not doing anything so I turned that into my Unraid server + Windows 10 Gaming VM. Just added a JBOD case for my disks. Edited May 8, 20197 yr by IamSpartacus
May 8, 20197 yr Author 6 minutes ago, ijuarez said: Any reason why you didn't go with Dual CPU's Just not needed. I'm using a GPU for HW transcoding so I don't have a lot of CPU needs anymore. 24 (and now 32) CPU threads is plenty. Edited May 8, 20197 yr by IamSpartacus
May 8, 20197 yr 1 minute ago, IamSpartacus said: Just not needed. I'm using a GPU for HW transcoding so I don't have a lot of CPU needs anymore. 24 (and now 32) CPU threads is plenty. Ahh, great setup
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