There's always tradeoffs because there's just not enough PCIe lanes available for everything. But then again, I'd be limited to 23 drives instead of 24. The difference is there's 2 PCIeX4 slots and 2 PCIeX8 slots on the Gigabyte. You lose a 4x slot and one of the SATA connectors on that board. After I purchased it, I found the Gigabyte C246-WU4 board that might have been a better choice. I don't care about the U.2 connector, but that X4 slot loss hurts for network upgrades, if I want to move to 10GigE or Infiniband down the road. The downside of this board is that if I use both M.2 slots, I lose a PCIeX4 slot and the U.2 connector. I picked the Supermicro board because I needed 2 PCIeX8 slots for the controller cards. NORCO RL-26 Heavy-Duty Slide Ball Bearing RailĢ7U 4 Post 19" Open Frame Network Data Server RackĬost: Just over $6000 CAD (I wish the Canadian rupies exchange rate didn't suck so bad) SUPERMICRO AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 PCI-Express 2.0 x8 SATA / SAS 8-Port Controller CardĢ x WD Gold 10TB Hard Drives for Parity Drivesģ x WD Red 10TB Hard Drives for Data DrivesĢ x SAMSUNG 970 EVO M.2 2280 for Cache DrivesĢ x Norco Reverse SAS-SATA breakout cableĤ x J&D Internal Mini-SAS to Internal Mini-SAS Cable SUPERMICRO MBD-X11SCA-F-O ATX C246 MotherboardĬrucial 16GB Kit (8GBx2) DDR4 2666 MT/s (PC4-21300) I'm still waiting for the final SSD to be deliverd. I'll just speak on the parts I went with: Unfortunately, I haven't completed the build, so I can't specify (yet) on how it would fit your task. I'm in the middle of a 4224 build myself.
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