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    So I have 17 tesla p4's.

    All of them. I've got a 16 slot port slot extender that I've used before, but it's currently being used for my storage array and to drive that 20 optical drive monstrosity I built a few weeks ago. Ram and cpu, more cores, more ram, the better. I've an AMD 3950 that I'm about to retire that I...
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    So I have 17 tesla p4's.

    What motherboard and/or other hardware do I need to spin all of these up for AI training? Also, all advice is helpful. I'm building this for my students to have something to train small models on since cloud accounts are beyond about half of their budgets. I'd rather they spend it on food and...
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    Lots of Optical Drives

    All right, I finally got this monster working and stable. The controllers and their enclosure: I ended up using 6x StarTech PEXUSB3S44V USB Cards. Each one of these has 4 usb ports, but each port has it's own dedicated controller. For each usb port, I used a DATOptic eS3U31 usb to esata...
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    Lots of Optical Drives

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    Lots of Optical Drives

    Would these work as a set then? JMB585 Card JMB585 M.2 Adaptors
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    Lots of Optical Drives

    First off. Thank you to everyone who has replied so far. I've got power and cases and such. I actually have a 18 port external duplicator case that I used for an older version of this. This newer version is 20 slimline drives mounted paired in a rack chassis with 10 5.25 bays. I've got a...
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    Lots of Optical Drives

    I am building a system for my students and I to do projects with. One of the data sources we will be moving into the system currently resides in 9,000 mixed optical disc formats. To help speed this up Ive gotten 20 blu-ray drives. SATA port multipliers kind of work to run these, but are not...