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[leocola]

Looking to setup a system for backups. It doesn’t need to be fast as it won't be seeing that much incoming data on a daily basis (maybe 100Gb).

Motherboard: SM X10DRL-C
CPU: 2x Intel E5-2603 v3 @ 1.6Ghz
Memory: 64G (8x8G ECC/Reg)
Controller: LSI MegaRAID 9341-8i
Backplane: SC836BE1C-R1K03
Drives: 16x Seagate ES 2TB, 1xSSD for FreeNAS

 

[Mirfster]

Controller: LSI MegaRAID 9341-8i

Might want to verify if this card is a Hardware Raid or if it can be cross-flashed to a HBA. If it is Hardware Raid then you want to avoid it.

 

[danb35]

Is this an existing system you're planning to use for FreeNAS, or a proposed build? If the latter, I question many of the component choices. I'd think a single-socket board and a 1620 or a 1650 would probably be a better plan, as well as the HBA issue @Mirfster mentioned.

 

[Ericloewe]

Drop down to an X10SR-something, Xeon E5 1650 v4, 4x 16GB UDIMMs or 2x 32GB RDIMMs and an LSI SAS 9211 or SAS 9300.

Your system will be better and probably cheaper.

 

[idimitro]

Drop down to an X10SR-something, Xeon E5 1650 v4, 4x 16GB UDIMMs or 2x 32GB RDIMMs and an LSI SAS 9211 or SAS 9300.

Your system will be better and probably cheaper.

Hi,

the Xeon E5 26xx/16xx v4 doesn't officially support ECC UDIMM memory. Have you tested any of those CPUs with ECC UDIMM memory?

I am asking because I have 48GB UDIMM sticks and would like to jump to E5 from my current E3 setup. Unfortunately I couldn't find anybody who has tried such configuration.

 

[TXAG26]

Hi,

the Xeon E5 26xx/16xx v4 doesn't officially support ECC UDIMM memory. Have you tested any of those CPUs with ECC UDIMM memory?

I am asking because I have 48GB UDIMM sticks and would like to jump to E5 from my current E3 setup. Unfortunately I couldn't find anybody who has tried such configuration.

I'm not sure if it would work or not. You could always contact Supermicro and ask. As far as ram goes, if the UDIMM's don't work, I'd still upgrade to RDIMM's or LRDIMM's to get into an E5 board. These boards, with 8x DIMM slots will take 256GB/512GB/1TB of ram (RDIMM/LRDIMM/3DS-RDIMM), so you'll get much more mileage out of this upgrade than you would with an E3 system that maxes out at 64GB of ram.

This has been a great E5 board for my system:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X10SRH-CLN4F.cfm