I am willing to build a system from
or parts from other members
So maybe?
A 3/4U from "
Supermicro chassis' with 3.5" hotswap bays" section
IMO for okay prices
836 's are still available - relatively easy to find.
846's are harder and harder to come by right now - see 2 on the bay for okay pricing right now but will require upgrades.
things to consider. You'll probably want 920-SQ power supplies (number of drives and noise reduction).
I'll track down a Quadro P2000 or something so maybe could skip on the QuickSync so maybe grab up a X10 board from him also or an atom?
Its a good choice, single slot width, power from the slot and not an additional cable. If you have not checked out the QSV/nvenc link I recommend it. For h.265 transcoding and down res this is a good card. Not so much for 4k down and definitely not for HDR.
Not sure if any of the SAS Controllers he has would support Hardware raid but I think I want to go with Hardware Raid.
If you are okay with Adaptec then the 71605 - 16 ports (or 72405 24 ports) might be a good choice. BBU, cache memory, single card, single slot. run hotter than LSI but in a server chassis should not even be a problem.
Maybe try and sag a X10 Xeon board from him since I am going with Hardware Transcoding
So My Requirements would now be:
- Hardware Raid
- Hardware Transcoding (Quadro?) (Needs to fit in the 3/4U ??) ( I have a crap ton of RTX 2060/3060 Cards I could steal from if it would be better than a Quadro )
- One System
- Supermicro 3U/4U
- X10 Board for upgraded IPMI Version or other board with Good version of Remote Management
Lanes and Slots.
Storage lane budget , figure an x8 for each controller, ie if you need 16 ports then two by x8 etc, unless you can go with a single x8 card that has all your ports.
consumer graphics cards (and low end quadro) are driver limited to 2 streams. The cards you listed are dual slot width so that will take away from what you have available on the motherboard. You'll also need a harness to take molex and go to your consumer card. This is why the P2000/P400/P620 are desirable in these instances. slot power and single width. The cuda cores do not factor into the transcoding performance and the P2000/P400/P620 all use the same transcoding chipset which also is the same chipset in the RTX2xxx series.
E5-26xx will have 40 lanes available (depending on motherboard) - lower cost DDR3 memory option, v1,v2 cpu, X9SRL-F (no slot bifurcation support), X10SRL-F DDR4 memory v3,v4 cpu (with slot bifurcation support). all lanes are exposed on both. X10SRL-F has bmc html5 kvm support. X9SRL-F has the out of support (cert out of date) java based kvm.
IMO best bang for buck core count speed is the E5-2680v4 which also fits the core count you mentioned previously.
Would upgrading if possible to SAS3 components provide any benefits? I am ordering the "HGST Ultrastar 10TB" which I think support it.
Will put me over budget probably, but I guess thats fine..
for spinners probably won't make a difference. I believe there are both SAS and SATA variants of that drive - any further details you can share to see which one you are getting?
If you go with a TQ backplane you can run sata or SAS3 (or SAS2) depending on the controller. Just more cables.
for the 836 the BPN-SAS3-836EL1/EL2 expander backplane has been and I think still is essentially unobtanium but you would only need one 8 port raid card with an expander backplane. the 836 SAS2 expander backplanes are widely available.
if it were me, I'd go TQ even if you have to cable it yourself since it is IMO a much more flexible backplane.
On budget - maybe.
FWIW and being repetitious - The cost of a standalone plex box (HP290 celeron 4900) is less than the cost of a P2000 and arguably is a better transcoding engine...
may have some more details in a while.
