Nice setups.
I have a purely home setup, and my plotting is coming to an end due to the cost of more storage drives, especially where I am.
Current Setup (single plot time per drive at the end of the plotting drive line below).
Supermicro 836 chassis - X9DR3-LN4F - Dual 2690v1, 192GB Ram (Approx 20 plots a day)
Plotting drives;
- 3x 2TB HDD (to be replaced with 10k SAS drives tomorrow) - 13h
- 3x 300GB 10k SAS drives - 11h
- 1x 4x 300GB 10K SAS drives (Raid0) - 8h
- 1x 1TB NVME - 8h
Storage drives;
- 2x 4TB
- 2x 2TB (3 more to ba added - see above)
HP ML350p - 2x 2690v1 - 96GB Ram (Approx 20 plots a day)
Plotting drives;
- 4x 1TB SSD - 9h
- 1x 1TB NVME - 8h
Storage drives;
- 2x 4TB
- 2x 2TB (3 more to ba added - see above)
Supermicro 2U 8 drive chassis - X10SLM-F - E3-1231v3
Plotter if needed, harvester & Splunk server for estate metrics.
Main workstation - i7-8200X - 32GB ram - 2x 1TB NVME (manually run 15 plots a day as used for actual work).
Storage drives (All full);
Items awaiting delivery
- Fujitsu TX300 S7 (not really needed now but has taken 3+ weeks to get to me so far).
- 2x 2690v1 processors (for above)
- 8x 2.5" drive cage & H240 sas card for ML350P
- x9-DRi-F motherboard to replace the faulty X9DR3-LN4F (one dead ram channel)
- 2x Slim ILM active heatskinks
- 2x square ILM active heatinks for Fujitsu server
- 2x 1TB Seagate SAS SSD
- 4x HGST 400GB SAS SSD
- 4x 6TB HDD (best price per TB available at the time)
I also have a couple of x9SCM 1U server (E3-1270v1 & 32GB ram) but they are pretty noisy and I have no garage / basement etc to put tthem in so WAF was pretty low.
Things to test
Speed of a 2x 10k drive array vs the 4x 10k array as parallel will probably beet speed.
Tuning based on Slunk dashboards I am currently building.