I am in what I believe to be my final stages of researching a much needed upgrade to my home lab/NAS system and am down to two boards, the ASRock Rack D1541D4U-2T8R and Supermicro's X10SDV-7TP4F. There is a lot of love for the X10SDV-7TP4F here but not much discussion of the D1541D4U-2T8R variants so I'm looking for some feedback to tip the balance.
D1541D4U-2T8R
ASRock Rack > D1541D4U-2T8R
X10SDV-7TP4F
Supermicro | Products | Motherboards | Xeon® Boards | X10SDV-7TP4F
I am looking to build a relatively low power system for home lab use with lots of room for storage support and expansion. The OS would be Centos 7.2 with an emphasis on KVM based virtualization.
The chassis I have in mind is the iStar D-3100HN-DT, if only partially for it's trayless bays as it facilitates easy expansion and disk based backups.
Industrial Chassis | iStarUSA Products | D-3100HN-DT - 3U Compact 10x 3.5" Bay Trayless Hotswap microATX Desktop Chassis
I am a long time Supermicro user so I am attracted to the X10SDV-7TP4F but wonder, in the long run, if it may be underpowered with the D-1537. I am also concerned with it's passive cooling in a 3U chassis without a significant fan upgrade. However, this definitely seems to be the lower power requiring system.
D1541D4U-2T8R is the more robust system with the D-1541 and it's onboard LSI 3008 SAS3 (vs the LSI 2116 SAS2 on the X10SDV-7TP4F), RJ45 10G, 2x M.2 (what I presume to be x4) which gives it that 'room to grow/futureproof' feeling I feel slightly missing from the X10SDV-7TP4F and the price difference is small enough to make it not a big blocker, even if it is probably more than I'll use; better to have and not need than need and not have (within reason). Its higher on the power consumption with the 1541 than the 1537 and at least partially based on the LSI 3008, which I hear runs hot but I won't have to come up with a custom cooling fix as I feel I would with the X10SDV-7TP4F. Still, I haven't seen much discussion of users with the D1541D4U-2T8R, which concerns me.
So these systems have a lot in common, Xeon D processors, on board SAS and M.2, but different in implementation. At the moment I lean towards D1541D4U-2T8R. I'm waiting a bit for the Samsung 960 Pro/EVO M.2 to hit the market in what should be a couple weeks so this is still just playing ping pong in my head. Input appreciated. What do you think? What should I consider that I might have missed?
D1541D4U-2T8R
ASRock Rack > D1541D4U-2T8R
X10SDV-7TP4F
Supermicro | Products | Motherboards | Xeon® Boards | X10SDV-7TP4F
I am looking to build a relatively low power system for home lab use with lots of room for storage support and expansion. The OS would be Centos 7.2 with an emphasis on KVM based virtualization.
The chassis I have in mind is the iStar D-3100HN-DT, if only partially for it's trayless bays as it facilitates easy expansion and disk based backups.
Industrial Chassis | iStarUSA Products | D-3100HN-DT - 3U Compact 10x 3.5" Bay Trayless Hotswap microATX Desktop Chassis
I am a long time Supermicro user so I am attracted to the X10SDV-7TP4F but wonder, in the long run, if it may be underpowered with the D-1537. I am also concerned with it's passive cooling in a 3U chassis without a significant fan upgrade. However, this definitely seems to be the lower power requiring system.
D1541D4U-2T8R is the more robust system with the D-1541 and it's onboard LSI 3008 SAS3 (vs the LSI 2116 SAS2 on the X10SDV-7TP4F), RJ45 10G, 2x M.2 (what I presume to be x4) which gives it that 'room to grow/futureproof' feeling I feel slightly missing from the X10SDV-7TP4F and the price difference is small enough to make it not a big blocker, even if it is probably more than I'll use; better to have and not need than need and not have (within reason). Its higher on the power consumption with the 1541 than the 1537 and at least partially based on the LSI 3008, which I hear runs hot but I won't have to come up with a custom cooling fix as I feel I would with the X10SDV-7TP4F. Still, I haven't seen much discussion of users with the D1541D4U-2T8R, which concerns me.
So these systems have a lot in common, Xeon D processors, on board SAS and M.2, but different in implementation. At the moment I lean towards D1541D4U-2T8R. I'm waiting a bit for the Samsung 960 Pro/EVO M.2 to hit the market in what should be a couple weeks so this is still just playing ping pong in my head. Input appreciated. What do you think? What should I consider that I might have missed?
