I could fit the entire "production" part of my rack into that little case...
- X10SRM-TF (socket 2011-3 with 10Gbase-T)
- E5-2630 v4 (probably the hottest chip I'd want in that small volume, though a 2650L might be fun too)
- Would have to find a nice quiest low-pofile Narrow-ILM HSF. The big Noctua won't fit.
- 128 Gb RAM
- boot Proxmox from M.2
- VMs on a PCIe NVMe drive, or use a larger M.2 drive for boot & VMs if I'm lazy
- Pass through both SATA controllers to a VM running FreeNAS
--- 8 WD reds (6tb probably sweet spot for cost).
--- 2.5" SSD for ZIL
I give up the fault tolerance and tear down Ceph, but it would to the work. And not sweat doing it.