Build’s Name: Nemesis
Operating System: Windows Server 2016
CPU: Xeon E-2176G
Motherboard: Supermicro X11SCZ-F
Chassis: Supermicro 836BA
Drives: 8 x 4TB HGST RAID 10 or 6 for NVR VHD
Drives: 2 x Samsung 883 DCT 480GB 2.5" RAID 1 for OS
Drives: 1 x Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500GB NVMe for PMS metadata
Drives: 2 x Micron 5200 Max 480GB RAID 1 for VM OS VHDs
Drives: 1 x HGST 4TB for Linux ISOs while downloading
RAM: 32GB DDR4 2666
AOC: Intel X710-DA2 Dual Port 10Gbe SFP+ NIC
AOC: Adaptec RAID 71605
Power Supply: Supermicro Redundant 920W
Other Bits:
Usage Profile: I'm doing this upgrade primarily to move my Plex server off an Nvidia Shield and to finalize my overall server upgrades. The current hardware is a i7 2700k on an ITX board with just a LSI HBA card for 8 drives. It was a salvage of my original primary server.
On this one Plex will run on the bare-metal server, accessing a video library over LAN. It will at most host an additional two VMs, one for downloading Linux ISOs and another to run the Unifi Controller and Unifi Protect (don't ask, just see reddit thread.).
I went down a rabbit hole the other day looking into a solution to use the PCIe bifurcation support on the CPU attached x16 slot to split it out to two x8 slots. Best I could come up with was these guys
PCI Express x16 Bifurcation Riser Card | QIP4X-PCIE16XB01
and
Mini SAS HD (SFF-8643) to PCIe x16 (x8 mode) Slot Board | IPCIED4XD02
but Google turns up no where to purchase them from and who knows much they are.
In any event the Adaptec will likely get the x16 slot with the NIC going in one of the x4 slots and being slightly peak bandwidth limited but I'd be very unlikely to run into that issue with this build.
Operating System: Windows Server 2016
CPU: Xeon E-2176G
Motherboard: Supermicro X11SCZ-F
Chassis: Supermicro 836BA
Drives: 8 x 4TB HGST RAID 10 or 6 for NVR VHD
Drives: 2 x Samsung 883 DCT 480GB 2.5" RAID 1 for OS
Drives: 1 x Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500GB NVMe for PMS metadata
Drives: 2 x Micron 5200 Max 480GB RAID 1 for VM OS VHDs
Drives: 1 x HGST 4TB for Linux ISOs while downloading
RAM: 32GB DDR4 2666
AOC: Intel X710-DA2 Dual Port 10Gbe SFP+ NIC
AOC: Adaptec RAID 71605
Power Supply: Supermicro Redundant 920W
Other Bits:
Usage Profile: I'm doing this upgrade primarily to move my Plex server off an Nvidia Shield and to finalize my overall server upgrades. The current hardware is a i7 2700k on an ITX board with just a LSI HBA card for 8 drives. It was a salvage of my original primary server.
On this one Plex will run on the bare-metal server, accessing a video library over LAN. It will at most host an additional two VMs, one for downloading Linux ISOs and another to run the Unifi Controller and Unifi Protect (don't ask, just see reddit thread.).
I went down a rabbit hole the other day looking into a solution to use the PCIe bifurcation support on the CPU attached x16 slot to split it out to two x8 slots. Best I could come up with was these guys
PCI Express x16 Bifurcation Riser Card | QIP4X-PCIE16XB01
and
Mini SAS HD (SFF-8643) to PCIe x16 (x8 mode) Slot Board | IPCIED4XD02
but Google turns up no where to purchase them from and who knows much they are.
In any event the Adaptec will likely get the x16 slot with the NIC going in one of the x4 slots and being slightly peak bandwidth limited but I'd be very unlikely to run into that issue with this build.
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