Supermicro SYS-5019D-4C-FN8TP Review 1U Server with Networking

[Patrick Kennedy]

In our Supermicro SYS-5019D-4C-FN8TP review, we see how this 1U short-depth offering has 4x 1GbE and 4x 10GbE plus room for expansion

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[Patrick]

Experimenting a bit with publishing videos at different times versus articles:

 

[NateS]

One suggestion for future reviews of networking-focused devices like this: add some more benchmarks of its networking performance (replacing some of the current benchmarks if time is an issue). How many linux kernels it can compile per hour or how well it plays chess is kind of interesting, but no one is really going to use it for that. Instead, the kind of questions I hope to have answered in a review of this sort of device are: can it forward data between all its ports at line speed? If one was using it as a pfSense box, how much advanced filtering would one be able to do before the CPU can't keep up? How fast of a VPN connection can it support (possibly that can be inferred from the OpenSSL benchmarks, but it's not obvious how to translate from that score to a real world performance number)? Is there a certain set of networking features that are hardware accelerated and basically "free" in terms of CPU usage, but others which will eat up available processing power quickly?