Chassis - CSE-216BE2C-R920LPB with BPN-SAS3-216A BackPlane and Rear 2 Bay Drives add on
CPU - 2.1GHz Xeon Silver 4110 8-Core
Motherboard - SuperMicro X11SPL-F
Cooler - Dynatron 2U Active cooler with Noctua 6omm fan
RAM - 128GB 2133Mhz DDR4 ECC Reg
I have been wanting to build a storage server with the CSE-216 chassis for a while + with the new Scalable Xeons being available, I decided to build a system just for VM storage.
The chassis was a hot deal that I scored recently. It came with a SAS3-EL2 backplane and 2 920SQ psus. I decided to replace the SAS3 expander backplane with a direct attach backplane to get the max possible throughput based on advice in the forum. Coincidentally I found one on ebay that was within my budget.
I had 3 SAS2 HBAs that I planned to use but since I already had 4 HUSMM1680ASS200 drives, I decided to go with SAS3 HBAs and acquired a lot of 3 LSI 9341-8i cards.
I had ordered a Dynatron 2U active cooler that was supposed to be delivered last week but got delayed. I wanted to work on this build this weekend and ordered a supermicro cooler from WiredZone. Coincidentally both reached me on Friday. I decided to go with the dynatron for this build. The SuperMicro will go for sale or be on reserve for a future build.
I do not have any SFF-8643 cables on hand and did not order the cables yet. I wanted to build everything and then order the right length cables. Also the PDB has only 6 4Pin Molex power connectors and does not have a connector free to power the rear 2 drive bay. I need a BERG-Molex cable to pull power from one of the Floppy/CDROM drive connectors.
After several days of waiting to get the parts I finally put everything together and started burning in the system today.
Once I get the cables and complete the build in the next few days, I need to decide on the pool layouts. I have in hand
Intel DC 3700 400GB - 16nos
HUSMM1680ASS200 800GB - 4 nos, 4 incoming
Intel P3700 AIC - 4 nos
I just finished taking measurements for the cables and racked it. I am running mprime today to stress out the CPU. I'll let it idle for the rest of the week till I get the cables.
Here are some pictures of the build as it is now.
Updates
Update 1 - Initial Power Consumption and Temperatures
Update 2 - Initial Benchmarks with 10 DC S3700 SSDs
CPU - 2.1GHz Xeon Silver 4110 8-Core
Motherboard - SuperMicro X11SPL-F
Cooler - Dynatron 2U Active cooler with Noctua 6omm fan
RAM - 128GB 2133Mhz DDR4 ECC Reg
I have been wanting to build a storage server with the CSE-216 chassis for a while + with the new Scalable Xeons being available, I decided to build a system just for VM storage.
The chassis was a hot deal that I scored recently. It came with a SAS3-EL2 backplane and 2 920SQ psus. I decided to replace the SAS3 expander backplane with a direct attach backplane to get the max possible throughput based on advice in the forum. Coincidentally I found one on ebay that was within my budget.
I had 3 SAS2 HBAs that I planned to use but since I already had 4 HUSMM1680ASS200 drives, I decided to go with SAS3 HBAs and acquired a lot of 3 LSI 9341-8i cards.
I had ordered a Dynatron 2U active cooler that was supposed to be delivered last week but got delayed. I wanted to work on this build this weekend and ordered a supermicro cooler from WiredZone. Coincidentally both reached me on Friday. I decided to go with the dynatron for this build. The SuperMicro will go for sale or be on reserve for a future build.
I do not have any SFF-8643 cables on hand and did not order the cables yet. I wanted to build everything and then order the right length cables. Also the PDB has only 6 4Pin Molex power connectors and does not have a connector free to power the rear 2 drive bay. I need a BERG-Molex cable to pull power from one of the Floppy/CDROM drive connectors.
After several days of waiting to get the parts I finally put everything together and started burning in the system today.
Once I get the cables and complete the build in the next few days, I need to decide on the pool layouts. I have in hand
Intel DC 3700 400GB - 16nos
HUSMM1680ASS200 800GB - 4 nos, 4 incoming
Intel P3700 AIC - 4 nos
I just finished taking measurements for the cables and racked it. I am running mprime today to stress out the CPU. I'll let it idle for the rest of the week till I get the cables.
Here are some pictures of the build as it is now.
Updates
Update 1 - Initial Power Consumption and Temperatures
Update 2 - Initial Benchmarks with 10 DC S3700 SSDs
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