Well OP wants to run a game server, not a bank, so I suggested E3-12xxV2 which support only UDIMMs and not RDIMMs. That may sound silly to somebody but if my data is so mission critical that I require Registered ECC every step of the way, I wouldn't use a M5014 (no ECC for its onboard buffer/cache) and I wouldn't store the data on a bunch of Samsung 830s (no capacitors on SSD = loss of data on power failure).I found that no matter how slow your cpu is, having 72gb of ram for sql server+windows, makes read iops = 0 when the database is 40gb plus indexes, writes to the database were all QD1 and log was the only thing that was stressful.
quad core low end e5504, x5650, e5645, e5602 - all just as fast (OLTP) for the users, M5014 with fastpath and 6 samsung 830.
So it depends on the application, but since $65 for 8gb RDIMM, $160 for 16gb (average street price QTY 1), i'd rather have 72gb and a cruddy quad core e5603 - all day long -
think RAMCACHE,ramdisk, SQLOS (huge buffers).
Call me old school but I think end to end ECC is very important. More than 2gb of ram is silly without full ECC (RDIMMS provide data and address line protection, unlike UDIMM).
It would be like putting all that ECC goodness to work , then picking that one intel server nic that is not ECC or using SATA drives which do not have IOEDC and only IOECC 1-bit so they can pump corrupted data back into your raid which only ZFS would see..
I've got a nc360t here, only when present with another nc360t, will cause massive memory corruption. your PCI-E bus can do this. Without ECC - would you know? Yes when it crashes or corruption has occured.
Encryption requires ZFS like validation?
9260-8i has ECC ram. 72bit (64+8 or 32+8). M5014 does too. If you are using the ram on the raid controller, you are doing it wrong, you want to bypass it AKA DIRECT I/O - CTIO. Why the 9211/9271 are faster/just as fast as the 9260/9265 - nobody is buffering.
The capacitor issue is blown out i'm afraid. Hard drives do not have capacitors. do you think they do?
Your power supply has a capacitor. I have capacitor sata power plugs (4 to 1). I'll agree the samsung is not enterprise like the intel 320 but then again, sata itself is shit (Compared to sas). Keep backups - we can agree there.
Full Disk encrytion with FIPS_1402 sas drives (seagate constellation ES.3) requires decrypt valid at disk level.
Bitlocker would fail bit rot on a decrypt on the o/s level.
Bit rot cannot be avoided without end to end ECC, and you most definitely need to do ZFS verify on READS.
I wouldn't recommend a server that doesn't have redundant power.
Hell even the cheap ML110G7 lowest end HP tower has dual rail RPS and hot swap drives these days. Run a UPS to PHASE A and another to PHASE B and use APCUPSD to cleanly shutdown. It's solid.
Yes, the E5 costs way too much, runs way too hot, draws way too much power for an average game server.I wouldn't even try getting HA for a gameserver. I don't know if you want to have it hosted professionally but i wouldn't get multiple psu's at home, probably not even colocated because of the increase in size. A capacitor for a 3.5inch regular harddrive isn't feasible although the idea of flushing the buffer to disk is.
I can't really advise you on minecraft but for the CS server i would just get the stuff that uses the least power. You can probably run 10 times the servers, populated, without noticing.
Have a link to these? Do they work for you?Your power supply has a capacitor. I have capacitor sata power plugs (4 to 1).
Wonder why so hard to find. I'd imagine a cable or backplane PCB size supercap would be much easier to place than 1 internal to a 2.5" PCB.The only ones I can find are these: http://www.amazon.com/Silverstone-Connectors-Stabilizing-Capacitors-CP06/dp/B005DD28XG
These caps are not super caps and are for voltage stabilization and not for data integrity for SSD's.
Would certainly be a nice product to have out there, something with a large capacity of super caps for each connector which would allow the use of cheaper and faster SSD's in a home enviroment. Unfortunately I can not seem to find anything like this.....