The closed-loop solution on the market for the LGA3647 120mm fan applications is the Dynatron L13. We would effectively need a liquid cooling solution. Due to the positioning of the CPU socket and memory, we could not get an easy and quiet cooling solution for the Xeon Scalable CPU. It had SFP+ 10GbE, multiple expansion slots, enough onboard SATA to power all of the drives, 6x DIMM slots, and plenty of PCIe all perfect to go bigger and do a converged storage and virtualization platform. We reviewed the Supermicro X11SPM-TPF mATX Intel Xeon Scalable Motherboard, and it seemed like a perfect fit. We have dozens of Xeon Scalable CPUs to use, so this seemed like an easy option. Specifically, getting an Intel Xeon Scalable solution.
If we could not get an mATX Atom C3000 solution, the next thought was going big. Perhaps Bigger: Intel Xeon Scalable Solution We could, of course, use a smaller platform in the CS381, but we wanted to use mATX.
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For some context, in the 8-bay ZFS server world, the Atom C3000 series is probably the best-fit solution from a SoC perspective, but we needed the right platform. As a result, they can be handled in smaller form factor chassis, and one does not need the larger CS381 size chassis. One of the biggest challenges here is that the Atom C3000 platforms are generally mITX or FlexATX size.
We could get 16 cores, 10GbE, and have a very low power server. The original thought was to go with an Intel Atom C3000 series solution. Since this is designed to be a server, we wanted something with remote management capabilities as well. On the server-side, mATX, once a popular size, has become significantly less so. On the consumer side, there are plenty of mATX options out there. It feels like a large system even though it is based around a mATX size motherboard.
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SilverStone CS381 Top SSD MountsĪs we saw in our FreeNAS Mini XL Plus Review 8-bays and 10GbE, the 8-bay FreeNAS platform works very well, so we wanted to replicate in a system with larger fans. SilverStone CS381 Front Drive BaysĪside from the internal 3.5″ drive bays, the platform has access to 2-4 additional 2.5″ mounting points for SSDs, making it a great hybrid platform.
Silverstone CS381 MATX Frontĭuring our review, we found that there were a few updates, but that system still works exceptionally well. It promises an 8-bay storage platform for mATX servers with large (quiet) fans and room for features such as GPUs. The SilverStone CS381 is a chassis we first saw from SilverStone at Computex 2018. Getting Started: Choosing the Form Factor Since this is one where you may want more angles, we have an accompanying video to this article.įor more information, including part numbers, we have the rest of this article.
Building a FreeNAS TrueNAS Core ZFS mATX Appliance Video You can apply everything here to FreeNAS today, or we expect TrueNAS Core in a few months as that is launched. The particular system was planned as a FreeNAS build, but we are going to let this system run TrueNAS Core starting with nightly builds. In this article, we are going to talk about the thought process behind the build, and what you can take away from it. This ended up being harder precisely because of the mATX form factor. Usually, these types of builds are extremely easy. Ever since I first saw the CS381, even before our SilverStone CS381 review, I wanted to turn one into a ZFS storage server. Today we have an article that stems from a personal project.
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