That's nice looking. I'm lusting after one of those Xeon-D boards with 10GbE, an LSI 9300, three of those 4x2.5 icy dock racks, and a bunch of eMLC SSDs. Nvme it is not, but that's a ton of IOPS in a nice compact form factor.
Mini-ITX (or not?) storage chassis for SSDs
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I haven't decided on a board yet. Im looking at "storage" board with plenty of onboard sata ports as I want the one pcie slot saved for a 10gbe add on card.
SM Xeon-D is always a choice, $500 for the 4 core ones is not that bad... Also can have 10g onboard
X11SSV-Q looks nice but with a cpu no cheaper than the D1518/20/21
C2xxx have 6 sata but only 2 are 6G
J1900/N3700 boards either have 3rd party or slow sata, but probably the lowest power with no IPMI.
Would love to have a Xeon-D under 20 watts with SSD's only, don't think it can be done ?
Waiting for @Patrick to give us the power info on the wave 2 SM boards (I am pretty confident the SM boards will be lower power than the other vendors as its more of a focus for them it seems)
I'd love to see this updated to xeon d it would fit your criteria well with onboard 10gbe you'd have everything
P9A-I/C2550/SAS/4L - Overview
P9A-I/C2550/SAS/4L - Overview
Does one exist?
Yea the new Xeon D's are intriguing. I have a SM X10SDV-TLN4F in my main server right now and it's fantastic but I'm really looking towards the ones with built in SFP+ because there aren't many good copper 10GbE switch options right now.
That is a sweet looking board. To be honest a C2550 is probably more than enough for my needs but I don't see much info on the storage controller included with that board. How many drives could I technically connect to it without an add on card?
Ooh I like that case, hadn't found that one thanks for the link. That could be a nice option just wish they had some better pics from the top.
It's 4 x MiniSAS connector(Marvell 88SE9485 x 2) so a minimum of 16 drives direct attach to 6gbps sas with a 6tb validation(they claim 108tb max which is 18x6 counting the onboard SATA ports) the datasheet on the controller is here, it's PCIE2 x8 without a chipset diagram I'd guess they only used X4 links to allow for an x4 to the card slot as well however.
That is very intriguing as I can't see myself ever connecting more than 8 SSDs in this server anyway. The problem I'm seeing people report though is that the storage controller doesn't work with any of the popular storage solutions. The user reviews on them are horror stories. That's a bummer.
That I unfortunately can't comment on, it works fine in S2008 and 2012R2 that I've used and I belive I've seen mention of it working with Ubuntu but that's all I can add to that. There will be Xeon-D boards with LSI-3008 chips i've seen here and there but nothing that seems to offer the option for 16 direct wire drives yet(if it did that would put everything you want on one board though)
no that case does not exist.
you may need to try something like this one
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811163239
and add the icy dock to it. small and flat...
Chris
you may need to try something like this one
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811163239
and add the icy dock to it. small and flat...
Chris
I looked at that case but I'm really looking for something that takes up less real estate on a desk.
I used an ANTEK ISK300-150 with a 6-in-1 2.5" SSD in 5.25" bay adapter from ICY Dock.
Works like a charm. It's silent, has a 150W powersupply built in and can take a PCI-e card.
Works like a charm. It's silent, has a 150W powersupply built in and can take a PCI-e card.
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Nice. I was looking at that case but wasn't sure what bay adapters would fit because it looks like it is not a full size 5.25" bay. Can you link me to the bay adapter you installed in this case?
Wow really? Looking at the pictures it looks like there is no possible way you can fit that bay adapter into that (what looks like a) slim bay.
It has a full 5.25"slot. you can take the standard bezel out ( keep the lower ports) and rock that 6-in-1 all the way.
Will see if i can take a picture later. Have both still laying around here.
Oh man I know this is off topic but I was poking at their site for a minute and look at this beautiful thing
MB516SP-B _Build To Order_2.5" HDD/SSD CAGES_ICY DOCK manufacturer Removable enclosure, Screwless hard drive enclosure, SAS SATA Mobile Rack, DVR Surveillance Recording, Video Audio Editing, SATA portable hard drive enclosure
MB516SP-B _Build To Order_2.5" HDD/SSD CAGES_ICY DOCK manufacturer Removable enclosure, Screwless hard drive enclosure, SAS SATA Mobile Rack, DVR Surveillance Recording, Video Audio Editing, SATA portable hard drive enclosure