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If you don't need SAS support, most of these boards have a ton of SATA ports built in so that could save you a PCIE slot. Obviously if you need SAS, you need a HBA.

Just saw this over on reddit and thought it'd be of interest here (it's a 3d printed fan/shroud for cooling 10gbe NICs in M720q). I wonder if I could figure out how to mod it to also fit my shucked boot SSD...

One of these and one of the Asrock Rack ITX boards with 10GbE built in would be a great start. Sadly there are no enclosures for something like this. And I suppose that depending on your drive layout, 8x NVME would be pretty substantially bottlenecked by even 10GbE. But damn that'd be cool!

I feel personally attacked. :p

Good point. If these had been available a few months ago I probably could have even saved money vs the cheaper 7.68T drives since I wouldn't have had to upgrade my server to EPYC for MOAR PCIE. And definitely a good point about cooling. On an open testbench with no air flow my Gen 3 drives...

Holy smokes. Good find OP! I was able to get Gen3 7.68TB drives for less than this per TB ($325 per drive), but these are incredible deals for density and performance. They even use less power than the DC1500M drives I bought, to boot. Looking forward to upgrading to these in a year or two.

Going purely by passmark, the 7443P is 5-10% faster than the 8700K you have. So fine for gaming if your current CPU is?

If PCIE lanes are your thing, may I suggest EPYC? A mid-to-high clocked Milan (7443P, for example) will give good single-core performance, excellent multi-core, and has 128 Gen 4 PCIE lanes. The W-2400 series would beat (stomp?) Milan in single core, but Milan's multi-core performance and PCIE...

I can confirm that the Kingston U.2 drives I purchased do indeed use almost 8W idle, but that may be in part because they lack the ability to go below power state 0 (at least as revealed by smartctl). Other Gen3 drives appear to have the ability to idle lower, so they may be able to use lower...

They're probably all "good enough" for home use since they're made for enterprise use. With Gen 3 drives there's small performance differences between brands, but they're all going to be really good at sustained performance compared to anything consumer grade. Some may have slightly lower idle...

And currently, Gen3 enterprise U.2 drives (used or new) are less expensive than their SAS/SATA enterprise SSD counterparts. New 7.68TB Gen3 drives are available for a bit less than $400, which is less per TB than everything but the very cheapest QLC consumer crap. As @nexox said, they're...

Looks like the Noctua is too tall (165mm w/o fan). I think the others are fine, although one or two of the reviews of the Arctic on Amazon state that it doesn't fit in all 4U cases. The dimensions on Amazon state that it's 152mm tall, so it'd just fit within OP's limitations.

I have this generic SP3 cooler from tugm4470 on ebay, and it is very capable and quite silent at low fan speeds. It's available from multiple sellers for around $40, and most take offers so I think you could potentially get it for even less. It looks like it's based on (ripped off from?) the...

Right?

Oooh. You're right I missed that. Pretty sure that's unenforceable though, especially given that the sealed packages I received explicitly state that there's a 5 year warranty: