Recent content by bill3000

Oooh, neat. All 7 PCIE slots support bifurcation: https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/does-asrock-rack-romed8-2t-support-bifurcation.29794/.

Thank you all for your input. I appreciate all the arrows pointing to "overkill", in particular that the compute is unbalanced against the IOPS; and building out a 200gpbs network to use that IOPS is beyond my budget. Looking into ZFS sLog + L2Arc and Open CAS, I think I'd be better off paying...

Ah, well, distributed systems is my career. This feels like the largest performance testing setup my wife and wallet might support. I could save and buy 24 Craigslist HP 800 G4's, but then I'd have to explain why I brought home twenty four computers. ;)

Build’s Name: Epyc NVMe Envy Operating System/ Storage Platform: Proxmox + JBOD CPU: Epyc 7F72 (used) Motherboard: Asrock ROMED8-2T Chassis: TBD Drives: 25x WD Black SN850x 1TB RAM: 4x 64gb 3200 Supermicro Add-in Cards: 6x Asus Hyper M.2 x16 Gen 4 Power Supply: TBD Other Bits: targeting ~$4k...