Over the past several months I have come to realize that my Unraid server I have been running in some form or another since 2017 is becoming very unstable. Since it hosts the majority of my services currently (learning docker swarm/kubernetes and moving things to Proxmox server/s) I want to do a bit of a hardware rebuild.
Current Hardware/specs:
- Chassis: SuperMicro CSE846 with all 24 bays populated BPN-SAS846A Backplane
- 240TB Usable with dual parity and 4x Samsung 870 EVO 2TB drives for cache.
- Ryzen 7 1800x
- 64GB DDR4
- HP 487738-001 SAS Expander
- LSI SAS2308
- Nvidia Quadro P2000
- Dual SFP+ 10GB Intel NIC
My requirements are relatively simple.
- Budget: ~$1000 US
- Server grade motherboard with IPMI
- ECC RAM
- An HBA I don’t need an expander for
- Enough PCIe slots & lanes for the cards listed above (minus the expander)
- A nice to have but not a requirement would be slots/lanes for a PCIe card I can add up to 4 M.2 NVME drives for the cache. I know that most of these cards require bifurcation and I am not sure what motherboards support that in the server space.
As you can tell, I am in the early stages of planning but am looking for recommendations from you fine folks on boards, processors, and HBA’s.
Thanks in advance!