firesyde424
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I am looking to build an appliance for transferring 200TB+ databases from customers for processing in our environment. Trying to find something reliable, we discovered that not much is available commercially and, after several failures from existing vendors, decided to build our own transfer appliances.
I am currently considering two SuperMicro options and I was hoping to see if anyone either had experience with these models, or had some feedback.
My primary concern is the SuperMicro S3808L-L8iT SAS HBAs. I'm not sure if these will work or what is the deal. I am hoping that, if no one has experience with the chassis, at least someone has used the HBAs and might have some insight into them.
I am currently considering two SuperMicro options and I was hoping to see if anyone either had experience with these models, or had some feedback.
- "Smaller" appliance
- SuperMicro 620P-E1CR24L
- 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6326 CPUs, 2 x 16 cores @2.9Ghz
- 16 x 16GB DDR4 3200MHz RAM(Due to 8 channel CPUs)
- 2 x 480GB Micron 7300 Pro boot drives(Mirrored)
- Pool Config
- SLOG: 2 x Micron 7300 Max 1.6TB NVME SSD, Mirrored
- Data: 2 x RAIDZ2 groups of 12 x Ultrastar DC HC550 18TB12GB SAS Hard Drives for a total of 24 drives.
- 289TB @ 80%, 392TB @100%
- 2 x SuperMicro S3808L-L8iT SAS HBA
- This is the big question mark for this build. I can't find a whole lot of information on it or whether it would be suitable for a TrueNAS Core build.
- Intel XXV710 or Broadcom NetXtreme 25Gbe dual port network adapters
- This changes because network card availability is crap and I never know what I'll be able to get from time to time.
- Approximate cost: $24K
- "Larger" appliance
- SuperMicro 540P-E1CTR45L
- Xeon Platinum 8362 CPU, 1 x 32 cores @ 2.8Ghz
- 8 x 32GB DDR4 3200Mhz RAM
- 2 x 960GB Samsung PM983 M.2 boot drives(Mirrored)
- Pool Config:
- SLOG: 2 x Micron 7300 Max 1.6TB NVME SSD, Mirrored, in 2 x U.2 to PCIe adapter cards
- 4 x RAIDZ2 groups of 11 x Ultrastar DC HC550 18TB, 12GB SAS Hard Drives with 1 hot spare for a total of 45 drives.
- 531TB @ 80%, 720TB @ 100%
- 2 x SuperMicro S3808L-L8iT SAS HBA
- This is the big question mark for this build. I can't find a whole lot of information on it or whether it would be suitable for a TrueNAS Core build.
- Intel XXV710 or Broadcom NetXtreme 25Gbe dual port network adapters
- This changes because network card availability is crap and I never know what I'll be able to get from time to time.
- Approximate cost: $33K
My primary concern is the SuperMicro S3808L-L8iT SAS HBAs. I'm not sure if these will work or what is the deal. I am hoping that, if no one has experience with the chassis, at least someone has used the HBAs and might have some insight into them.