That looks like the same goofy cooling idea that's been floating around for years without going anywhere because physics and engineering
Thanks Evan, a dedicated box is the idea, going all the way back I had a Pfsense appliance in my cart but I now believe their hardware is much overpriced, by ~$400. I realize you're supporting the project through buying their hardware and that you get two incidents of remote support with the purchase, but seeing as the incident tickets are $200/ea they aren't including anything, it's just front loaded. That's how I began looking at making my own C2758 box through SM. However those are chips from 2013 and I'm guessing the Xeon D chips have a lot better side benefits. Thoughts?@DMatrixz the 10g copper ports also run at 1g.
But the board with both is only a few $$ more (d-1518 probably rather than d-1521)
If you want a stand alone firewall then look at the pfsense appliances. (A lot would agree having firewall on a separate appliance is a good idea)
Costs $200-300 though.
I had a similar impression, they claim the metal sits close enough to conduct heat through air, true but is that really enough..? I'd think it doesn't come close to direct conduction.That looks like the same goofy cooling idea that's been floating around for years without going anywhere because physics and engineering
Wow, not bad, now I wonder if that's a better route or not, missing QA,etc (networking goodies) that the D-15*8 boards have right?@DMatrixz - FS: Spring Cleaning (X10SDV-TLN4F, Travla 1Us, Quanta LB6M & Cisco 2960G-8TC)
$800 for the 8 core model from a STH member.
Ouch, why would they leave that off a 'network optimized' '8 series' chip?The Xeon D parts do not have the onboard QuickAssist (QAT) engine. You can add the external card though.
Answering my own question, the M.2 is using a PCIe bus lane instead of SATA, so yes, we can use up to 7 storage disks.Hey Guys!
Is it possible to use all the 7 storage ports in the, say, ASRock D1520D4I at the same time?
This board has 6 SATA drives (4 from the mini SAS) and a M.2.
I checked the mobo's manual but couldn't reach to a conclusion. The specifications page below doesn't even mention the M.2, although the slot is visible in the photos and mentioned in the manual.
ASRock Rack > D1520D4I
SC113MTQ. 1U short depth with 8 2.5" hotswaps + an LSI9300 IT mode that I have on the shelf. For now. This will likely be the first of 5 CEPH OSD nodes in a small cluster. I plan to do some simple performance testing and may go down-scale to the 2C/4T model for the rest of the cluster (OSD really isn't an intensive use case).@PigLover what case will you be using ?
Rack cases are plenty, but small desktop cases (needed as in apartment and no chance for a rack) for flex-atx seem few and far between.
Haha 20" is not short depthSC113MTQ. 1U short depth with 8 2.5" hotswaps + an LSI9300 IT mode that I have on the shelf. For now. This will likely be the first of 5 CEPH OSD nodes in a small cluster. I plan to do some simple performance testing and may go down-scale to the 2C/4T model for the rest of the cluster (OSD really isn't an intensive use case).