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[The Gecko]

Build’s Name:                        Virtual Host
Operating System/ Storage Platform:  Windows Server 2012 R2
Manufacturer/ Model:                 Dell R710
CPU:                                 2x Intel Xeon X5675 @3.06GHz
Motherboard:                         Dell
RAM:                                 256 GiB (16x 16GiB ECC DDR3)
Chassis:                             2U Rackmount
Drives:                              146GiB SAS Mirror w/hot spare
Drives:                              900GiB (4x 450GiB SAS in RAID 10 w/hot spare)
Add-in Cards:                        QLogic QLE2462 4GB FC HBA
Power Supply:                        2x 870W 80Plus Silver
Other Bits:                          .

Build’s Name:                        SAN/NAS
Operating System/ Storage Platform:  FreeNAS 9.3
Manufacturer/ Model:                 Supermicro
CPU:                                 2x Intel Xeon E5620 @ 2.40GHz
Motherboard:                         Supermicro X8DT6
RAM:                                 192 GiB (12x 16GiB ECC DDR3)
Chassis:                             4U Rackmount
Drives:                              1x 16GiB SanDisk Flash Drive (boot)
Drives:                              43.5TiB (12x 4TiB White Label Enterprise in RAIDz3)
Drives:                              200GiB SAS SSD SLOG
Drives:                              3.84TiB Samsung PM1633 SAS SSD L2ARC
Add-in Cards:                        QLogic QLE2462 4GB FC HBA
Power Supply:                        2x 900W 80Plus Gold
Other Bits:                          .

Build’s Name:                        Not Used #1
Operating System/ Storage Platform:  .
Manufacturer/ Model:                 Supermicro
CPU:                                 2x Intel Xeon E5620 @ 2.40GHz
Motherboard:                         Supermicro X8DT6
RAM:                                 192 GiB (12x 16GiB ECC DDR3)
Chassis:                             4U Rackmount
Drives:                              .
Add-in Cards:                        .
Power Supply:                        2x 900W 80Plus Gold
Other Bits:                          .

Build’s Name:                        Not Used #2
Operating System/ Storage Platform:  .
Manufacturer/ Model:                 Supermicro
CPU:                                 2x AMD Operton 2419 EE
Motherboard:                         Supermicro H8DI3+-F
RAM:                                 112 GiB (14x 8GiB ECC DDR2)
Chassis:                             2U Rackmount
Drives:                              .
Add-in Cards:                        .
Power Supply:                        2x 900W 80Plus Gold
Other Bits:                          .

Build’s Name:                        Not Used #3
Operating System/ Storage Platform:  .
Manufacturer/ Model:                 Supermicro
CPU:                                 2x AMD Operton 2419 EE
Motherboard:                         Supermicro H8DI3+-F
RAM:                                 96 GiB (12x 8GiB ECC DDR2)
Chassis:                             2U Rackmount
Drives:                              .
Add-in Cards:                        .
Power Supply:                        2x 900W 80Plus Gold
Other Bits:                          .

Those are the systems. They all sit in a 25U Gizmac XRackPro2 server rack with noise reduction and air filtration. I watched eBay for a year and finally snagged one for $600 shipped.


I run dual 20 Amp circuits with dual APC Smart-UPS 1000 XL battery backup units. Each unit also has one extended-run-time battery pack which holds two extra batteries. That's a total of 6 batteries. All of the power cables, UPSs, Power Distribution Units, wall outlets, and circuit breakers have been color-coded red/blue. I can tell which device is plugged into which circuit. Look for the red/blue tape in the following pictures.



Finally, attached to the main panel of my house is an APC surge protector.



If you would like to see the server rack refresh project, please read my log here: Server Rack Rebuild Project - Evil-Overlord

 

[William]

It finally happened, went over and picked up the beast, the one machine I have been most excited about for a long time.
Supermicro 8048B-TRFT
Supermicro | Products | SuperServer | 4U | 8048B-TRFT

This is a beast of a machine, shipping box comes with its own pallet. Managed to unbox it and lift it onto the table, then moved it back into the lab to start work on it.



This is one of the RAM modules, there are 8 total.
96 DDR4 Memory slots to fill up. I only have 32 16GB sticks atm which will work as a minimum RAM load out. Working on more sticks... good luck with that LOL

CPU's are E7-8890 V3's (18 core) so 72 cores/144 threads for this monster.

 

[William]

Its for a review LOL

I can't afford these things

 

[T_Minus]

I want that setup!

 

[William]

I am expecting it to be very loud and draw lots of power LOL

Thinking I might do some videos on this one as these are impressive machines to run.

 

[Marsh]

Where is the "Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor" that generate the required 1.21 gigawatts.

 

[William]

I think the 8x GPU rigs we ran before will pull more power than this one, I could be mistaken tho.
I plan on firing this up tomorrow for a shake down run and I will get a better idea on power loads.

 

[William]

CPU's are about $7K ish each... no idea on how much a full load out of 92x 64GB sticks of DDR4 is, I am afraid to look.
There is also 24 drive bays in the front, so add that and controllers + network cards in.

It gets scary but I think it would be safe to say $100K+ for one

 

[Blinky 42]

Nice.. Looks like maxed out with 3TB of mem and the E7-8890 is it around $72k list w/o any storage @ ThinkMate.

 

[Chuntzu]

Its for a review LOL

I can't afford these things

Bahahaha, that's fantastic! I was just thinking that. It would be a mortgage size loan to afford that beast! I look forward to reading the review and living vicariously through you. Awesome server!

 

[The Gecko]

It finally happened, went over and picked up the beast, the one machine I have been most excited about for a long time.
Supermicro 8048B-TRFT
Supermicro | Products | SuperServer | 4U | 8048B-TRFT

This is a beast of a machine, shipping box comes with its own pallet. Managed to unbox it and lift it onto the table, then moved it back into the lab to start work on it.

This is one of the RAM modules, there are 8 total.
96 DDR4 Memory slots to fill up. I only have 32 16GB sticks atm which will work as a minimum RAM load out. Working on more sticks... good luck with that LOL

CPU's are E7-8890 V3's (18 core) so 72 cores/144 threads for this monster.

I know that as you add RAM to a system (and loading increases), memory controllers begin to step down the bus speed, sometimes by as much as 50%. Therefore, a Systems Engineer needs to understand the type of load a server will be used for; is the drop in speed worth the trade-off of having a larger RAM pool to use? So I would ask of you this: in your review, would you please write a little bit about the bus speed/latency as the number of populated DIMMs increases?

 

[Patrick]

I think the 8x GPU rigs we ran before will pull more power than this one, I could be mistaken tho.

100% chance that is the case.

 

[William]

I wish I had enough RAM to actually test that, I am working on it but who knows, it is a rather large request to make.