To answer my own question, it looks like switches based on that architecture might be finally coming to market. From what I could find on chinese forums, there's a company going by Netis or Netcore (www.netcoretec.com) that launched the GS10, a switch with 8x 2.5G and 2x 10G SFP+.
It's not...
There's the Chenbro RM252 MIO, but the motherboard and GPUs would be front-facing. The problem is that 2U is too short to mount double slot GPUs 'stacked' and they have to be installed side-by-side, so that involves either a weird riser or some other custom cabling approach.
Being the OP, yes the rack is just under 23" from front rails to back rails. The mini R is just something I stumbled on while looking for a chassis that would fit, and it looked interesting enough to share. I'm just looking at slowly migrating my NAS (currently in a small u-nas 8-drive case)...
Looks like the Truenas mini R might also be a decent fit if I wanted to go for a full server instead, since it's only 21" deep.
They seem to use a rebadged supermicro case (or at least the internals are stamped with supermicro part numbers) but I have had zero luck in identifying it.
Since my rack is slightly shallower than normal (23" front-to-back, 16U high) the usual Supermicro SC826 would stick out the back quite a bit.
Would anyone have recommendations for a shorter 2U case that can handle 12x 3.5" drives? The only one I could find for that would be the Chenbro RM245...
Not exactly chassis-related, but still rackmount-related question. Anyone knows who would make deep (20-24") 3U-4U rack drawers, lockable or not? The only ones that deep I could find were from Hammond and they're on the pretty expensive side of things. Pretty much anything else I could find is...
A 8x 2.5G + 2x 10G switch would hit just the sweet spot of what I've been looking for, but besides the STH article from early September, there hasn't been a peep.
Would anyone have heard anything more recent about switches using those hitting the market?
Sorry for the massive delay, between a bout of surgery, months of recovery and a few other things it skipped my mind for the longest time.
I attached the files for all 3 parts in the zip file, in both STL and STEP formats, as well as a quick picture showing how it all comes together.
You need...
Sure, it'll take me a few days and I will have to figure out exactly what hardware I used. I think it was 4-40 square nuts and screws but need to double-check.
The reseller I went through was New Era Electronics, up in Canada. The card was ~$130CAD but that was nearly 2 years ago.
In the US, there's Global American Inc
Innodisk also makes a few similar cards but they're m.2-2242 or longer instead of 2230.
I'll have to look it up at work to dig out the original quote, but it's worked impeccably. 3d-printed a small bracket to mount the rj45 port where the optional accessory port on the 5060 micro is (where the vga/com port would be). It runs the downstream interface to a fibre optic converter...
One similar card I did use before is from Commell. They make m.2-2230 to GbE, m.2-2230 to 2.5GbE and miniPCIe to GbE, dual GbE and 2.5GbE.
I've been using their m.2-2230 GbE adapter in a Dell 5060 micro in place of the wifi card and it has been working impeccably. I'll have to look up where I...
They also started at considerably higher, so I was surprised to see that one start for so little. Someone might get lucky, $260 for 3.84TB is still decent.
Of course only reason I'm not going for it is because I managed to get my hands on a 7.68 SAS3. :cool:
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