I was trying to guess if you could add an extra drive cage so in total 6 x 7mm disks up top.
This sounds like a very tight fit.
Do that with an A2sdi-8c in the case and you could have s supper low power and light weight storage and virtualization platform. Just need to consider using some quieter fans.
I have been using C2000 boards as very light weight virtualization hosts, especially at home. They are also good single-function servers, such as NAS controllers and firewalls, in which case I would the software so that the service runs on the bare metal.
I'd love to upgrade them to something like the A2SDi-8C+-HLNF4 and move experiment with other C3000 systems. I will wait until I have a compelling reason to upgrade.
I asked about the performance difference between the C2758 and C3758 in another forum channel. I got a nice answer and I need to look for the thread now.
Compared to intel the 3000 series is cheaper, but not massively so. Certainly lower power than the d-2100 series cpu.
Compared to Intel what? Initially I was confused because we have two completely different "3000" series of CPU... Intel C3000 and AMD EPYC 3000.
I haven't really kept up with Xeon D since the D-1500 models were popular. I had settled on the C2000 (post Erratum AVR.54 fix) series because they are so power efficient and easy to keep quiet when used as a home server.
I still haven't been able to figure out whether the Atom C3000 and EPYC 3000 are supposed to be considered as roughly equivalent in capabilities and power usage. Heat, and therefore fan noise, naturally follows, and keeping noise low is often the most important thing in many of my use cases.
Or rather, should I be comparing Xeon D-2100 (or D-2200?) and EPYC 3000?
I'm not expecting definitive answers. I understand enough to know that what I (we?) really need is a bit more clarity.
AMD have some monster chips for sure on the socketed EYPC range but for most people in a home environment 16 cores does it anyway.
If I could get 16 cores in a home server and keep it near-silent I would be very happy indeed.
EPYC 7000 looks amazing on paper as a compute host, but probably more suitable for the data center. I'm waiting until Rome is launched and the corresponding PCI-e 4.0 boards are available. After that I'll wait a little bit longer still. I prefer not to be on the very bleeding edge.