From: David Mason via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
So I want something with at least 5 SST drives for ZFS and a bootable drive not on ZFS (ideally).
SST? Do you mean SSD?
PCIe would be nice (GBs/sec) but 6 or 8 SATA drives would still be a lot faster than the existing.
I'd like it to use DDR5 ECC. I don't need much performance, and I'd like it to be relatively low power. At least a GB Ethernet. I don't need, nor care about, GPUs - at least not at this point.
There are a truly mindboggling number of options, but most of the ones that meet my I/O requirements are very high-performance and power-hungry. And almost nothing supports ECC properly
On the Intel side there are LGA1851 socket systems. A reasonably-priced one is https://www.canadacomputers.com/en/intel-motherboards/264441/gigabyte-z890-a... but it doesn't do ECC properly.
What do you mean by "properly"? At one point I believed that IBM's phrase "chip kill" was relevant. ECC normally detects single-bit errors in a word but in many configurations, one dead chip will take out more than one bit in a word.
On the AMD side there are sTR5 socket systems. A less reasonably priced one is https://www.newegg.ca/gigabyte-trx50-aero-d-extended-atx-amd-trx50-am5/p/N82... but it at least does ECC.
Thread Ripper seems like the opposite of what you want for a cool and quiet home server. I think that (some?) ordinary Ryzen's support ECC but that not many firmwares do. And perhaps not many chipsets do. Here's a kind of old link to Asus: <https://www.asus.com/support/faq/1045186/> There are some weird old Atom variants that support ECC and a lot of SATA. The "C Series" was meant for servers. Here's one chip: <https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/97929/intel-atom-processor-c3538-8m-cache-up-to-2-10-ghz.html> - ECC - 12 SATA! I wonder if any refurbished boxes are available cheap. Maybe servethehome.com folks would be knowledgable. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk