Embargo lift was 9AM Pacific today for all but the C3338 which was previously released.
https://www.servethehome.com/intel-atom-c3338-benchmarks-why-denverton-is-so-sweet/
https://www.servethehome.com/supermicro-sys-5029a-2tn4-review-a-small-intel-atom-c3338-nas/
I have one of the Thermaltake USB 3.0 3.5" and 2.5" docks that supports UASP. It actually does help quite a bit. To the point where if this was plug and play I think eSATA would become significantly less useful.
Actually, hard drives do OK with sequential read performance. With that being said, if you can go SSD (or two) that is going to be best for this workload. A best of breed option is sticking the 7,200rpm drives (or a 15K rpm setup) as your big storage tier then using SSDs to serve the most...
The hard drive market just went to a Coke & Pepsi model, except making a store brand competitor with a few million is much easier than making a new hard drive brand at several hundred million. Plus, if I went and made a hard drive company tomorrow, would you buy a drive from me? Guessing you...
Been using multiple sets of RAID 0 SSDs from 2-8 drives for quite awhile now. Personally, one drive will give you the most perceivable benefit. RAID 0 helps when you can get 128GB drives inexpensively and want a larger volume. The bad thing is that in the last three years I have lost RAID 0...
You should think about the cheapest <$100 motherboard + a cheap Sandy Bridge w/ Quick Sync if that is the encoding you are doing. You can run a hard drive, mobo, cpu, and optical drive with a PicoPSU and have a single fan cool the entire thing.
For the lower-end UP servers, ECC support (including registered memory support) is one of the biggest differences. Also the Xeon E3-1230, for example is an 80w TDP part with no active integrated GPU.
Lots of cores is still AMD's forte, especially at low power consumption/ per core.
I will...
Hey all,
Benchmarked the Intel Xeon E3-1280 which is a 95w TDP part running at 3.5GHz base with no active integrated GPU.
See Sandy Bridge Xeon E3-1280 benchmarks.
Again, not a gaming CPU since the i7-2600K is half the price and has an unlocked multiplier, but the Xeon E3 series...
Talked to a finance guy for one of the major NAND manufacturers. He said new process is seeing about a 30% reduction in cost given current yields. That doesn't include things like the PCB, housing, and controller so asking for a 50% reduction in price is probably unwarranted.
Instead of a Revodrive X2, you could just buy a LSI SAS2008 based card, run RAID 0 and buy 4 individual 64GB drives and get more performance for less money... if you really wanted.
I just built a dual E5606 (the 32nm AES-NI enabled updates to the E5506 in the Anandtech piece that came out mid-Feb 2011) rig this week.
Benchmarks for the Xeon E3-1230 will post on Monday morning. Interestingly enough the dual E5606's and E3-1230 are a close match in a lot of cases. Price...
I found what you are looking at :-) It is a good card and has 2x the onboard memory 1GB v. 512MB). Big thing is that it has an onboard expander so figure a few more watts a bit more heat and it will be harder to get other expanders to hook up to it. If you are OK with the above, great deal (I...
Agreed. Save money, get Sandy Bridge or something better later. The old 2.4GHz Q6600 at stock speeds burns tons of power (way more overclocked) and is much slower than the new Core i5/i7 architectures. Heck if you really wanted an upgrade, a used i7 920 + X58 motherboard can be had for <$300...
Yes, and most UP server purchasers will also trade a few dollars (~$30-40 difference) for a 80w TDP part (the E3-1220 reviewed) with 8MB L3 and ECC support versus the 95TDP/ 95w TDP desktop part (the i5-2400).
Realistically, a K series desktop part without the GPU would be a fairly...
Mine hit 4.4GHz using the stock cooler, but ran really hot. On my watercooling setup it runs at 5.0GHz using all auto settings on the ASUS P8P67 Pro. One has to question if they really need the extra performance that a more expensive cooling setup brings, but it seems like the headroom is there.
Already have the older-gen X3440 and X3460 up, as well as the i5-2500k and i7-2600k and a few older CPUs (you can see them in the Handbrake table). The next 2-3 weeks will be looking at the new E5606's in single/ dual configurations and probably the E3-1230 as well as the Zecate platform from a...
Hey Anandtech,
Just in the event someone is wondering about the new Sandy Bridge Xeons I spent this weekend doing benchmarks of the Xeon E3-1220 (4C/4T, 80w, no onboard GPU, 8MB L3).
Will be posting results of some of the HT model(s) later this week. Power consumption looks promising but is a...
Yikes! I have a Supermicro X8DTH-6F that I am going to pop in the test server this week for a review... and that thing only supports 192GB.
BTW, if you have a $600+ motherboard, dual LGA 1366 Xeons, and over 200GB of RAM, cost of a server license with 5 or fewer CALs is not usually a huge...
So the fastest SSD array I've used thus far has been an 8x 64GB Sandforce drives in RAID 0 when I was playing with the server array (only about 2.1GB/s in ATTO). Daily use I have used Indilinx 120GB RAID 0 drives for a long time.
First off, if you RAID 0, you lose TRIM, so just make sure your...
Encrypt and if you really do not want someone else to see contents after you are done, destroy the NAND chips. If someone can piece together hammer smashed NAND and get it to work, it is pretty impressive IMO. Frankly, if someone wanted my PII I am sure that there would be easier ways to go...
The second card is much better as the IOP333 in the 1220 can get choked fairly easily by modern drives. The IOP348 is much better, but it is still a full generation behind current cards.
One thing to consider is a LSI 9260-8i or 9261-8i (just different card layouts to support different port...
Areca > Highpoint... and by a lot. Think of it this way:
1. LSI is the brand virtually every major OEM (HP, Dell, IBM, Intel and etc.) re-brands as their own.
2. Areca is what you rip out your pre-installed controller for when you had an LSI card and put something custom in.
3. Adaptec is a big...
Dual CPU or single CPU and if dual do you want dual tylersberg or not?
Just looking at what you posted Intel 3420 is plenty.
For a UP system, you could use a X58-like board with the W35xx or W36xx CPUs. For example I am using a W3550 with a Supermicro X8ST3-F with 24GB of RAM right now...
ZFS, Rackmount, and quiet are pretty hard to get. I have always modified rackmount cases to make them quiet, but that usually involves swapping fans in the hot swap fan carriers and usually moving from passive to active CPU coolers. Even then you are talking "quieter" not "quiet"
With the above application I would go with something like a Supermicro X8SIL-F or X8SIA-F.
It looks like the LGA 1156 platform will be fine for you. If you wanted to wait for C200 series motherboards and Sandy Bridge Xeons, you could do that but if you get IPMI 2.0/ KVM-over-IP, you won't use...
LSI 1068 based, previous generation.
Not terrible, but I would generally advise going for the newer generation cards. That is not exactly a powerhouse RoC solution for RAID 6.
Current-generation cards would be the Areca 1880i would be a good, albeit expensive solution. One other option is the LSI 9260-8i. Realistically, these new cards are about the same price as the previous generation 3.0gbps cards so it is generally better to get the newer faster cards.
Remember...
I ordered one of these (128GB). Wanted to get a few more to replace the 64GB Sandforce drives in the ZFS test server and to run through some 6.0gbps RAID controller/ HBA testing that I wanted to start doing. At current pricing, they are a bit expensive at the moment so will probably add later.
BTW: Skip the Areca 12xx series at this point. SATA cards.
SAS 2 / SATA III cards which work at 6.0gbps are basically current-generation. If you ever want to get crazy with storage and turn something like a Norco RPC-4224 into an external expander chassis, 6.0gbps controller + drives = twice...
Rubycon have you used the Adaptec 6xxx series? Not sure how the PMC Sierra SAS2 controller compares to the Areca.
Another option for the OP is a LSI 9280-8i w/ a FastPath key.
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