bro this is hot

[rigid palm]

i got so many questions

how much is the Epyc CPU?

and why not raidz3 HW

imo raidz>raid

and they're 18TB but how many per drive?

or is it 18tb per drive

and is that a 2u chassis? if it is, how many bars is that chassis

and did u fill up all the bay slots

sorry for so many questions, also working on a nas server LMAO

I was thinking to put a core i9 12th gen in my home server but an Epyc CPU might be appealing too

but then ima need dedicated gpu

[left yoke]

$1493 thru BLT for the 24core P (P = doesn't support multichipping)

[left yoke]

raid broadcom 3008 card is built into the mobo. just putting it to work

[left yoke]

18tb per drive. i'm archiving a lot of uncompressed sound files, movies, and web pages (some of which are for NN training, not done on the server obviously but sent over the 10gb/s link to an external comp) so I need the space

[left yoke]

4u chassis but the mobo tray is halfway up so the heatsink has to be a 2u. 24 bays on the front, 12 in the back. There's no backplane for the back though, just running slimsas 8i->u.2 breakouts directly to the drives. Kind of a waste of space but I got the case for such a steal it didn't matter

CSE-847 if you want to research the chassis, H12SSL-CT is the mobo

[left yoke]

epycs, threadrippers, and ryzens are really cost efficient right now, but if you're gonna get more than 8 cores, you better put them to work. i9s are overpriced imo but i haven't looked too deeply. I started writing a lot of ASM code optimised for AMD arch instructions so i didn't consider Intel with a fine eye due to my own sunken cost

[left yoke]

not yet. I'm buying drives on a need-be basis. I've got two SATAs, two SASs, one u.2, and one m.2, but as the website I'm building leaves beta, I'll add more

I went ahead and bought all the SAS & SATA cables though since Supermicro sold the right length and I didn't want to pay for shipping more than once. Will have to buy another Slimsas 8i in the future though if I get more than 2 u.2s

[left yoke]

A lot of Supermicro boards that support epyc arch have a built in graphics adapter that can display basic stuff. Unless you need HDMI out from the server or 3D graphics, it'll work without a GPU. Otherwise if you're just playing videos or something, you can get a cheap one slot that'll work just fine

[rigid palm]

no no, I need mine for PLEX 4k encoding

and nice I ordered 24 16tb WD GOLD storage for mine

the drives for mine were like $9k lol

[left yoke]

Nice, I'm using the WD Ultrastar, found a decent deals on those too

[left yoke]

Ah, yeah I guess you'll need a decent GPU for that, but even then I don't think the Intel onboard graphics would serve it better than a standalone one

or decent enough to not take an extraneous time