Well crap. I really like that case. I figured it would be good with the 2 fans attached to the side of the drive bays. Guess I need to look at other options that support 8 drives. Maybe ALAMENGDA BD-1
Typo on the Xeon, I was planning on the G version. Wanted the dGPU for playing with since they are pretty cheap.
So you are saying use the 8th drive in the vdev instead of hot spare since I have it and the board has a 8 SATA ports?
You may want to double check the case compatibility.
I couldnât find the specs for the CS380b, but the CS380 says that the âlimitation for CPU coolerâ is 146mm.
Noctua says the NH-D14 is 160mm.
8 way RaidZ2. I ran a stripe of those for years. No need for a hot spare when you have double redundancy in my opinion.
(In a non mission critical scenario)
8way also scales into a 24 bay chassis nicely 
I use an NH-D9L with my Xeon E5 1650 v3, and itâs more than plenty good. The 120/140 mm coolers are getting into overkill territory for most applications.
I just checked my build log 
I used a Noctua NH-U9DX i4 on my Norco build. Plenty of cooling for either a Xeon E5-1650v4 or E5-2699Av4
Tested with Prime95.
Xeons donât get overclocked.
125mm tall âfull 4U case compatibilityâ
Awesome guys thank you for the feedback on the CPU cooler!! Looking at a Fractal Design Define 7 case and others. Sucks I didnât know about the CS380B cooling issues with HDDâs but it is what it is.
The Lian Li a76 is what i use with 12 âhot swapâ bays (that you need to buy backplanes for). Three 120mm fans up front keep the Pool drives cool and a hacked @Stux script keep the rig quiet and the disks at 30C or below.
The only reason I had to hack at all was the SATADOMs on the motherboard caused the fans up front to get spun up. That only needlessly added noise and power. Plus, the fans up front do little for the motherboard. I have a whole different set for that.
That would be me and my n=1 motherboard sample. All I can say is that I bought RAM sticks based on the QVL. Both resellers sent me sticks which featured RAM dies with a later revision than on the QVL (so the SKU was off by one digit, in 12th place or whatever). No combination of RAM sticks allowed all 4 sticks to be recognized, only 2 out of 4.
Based on my very limited experience, motherboards seem to become more finicky the closer you get to their respective RAM limits. I had a similar issue with the factory RAM in my C2750D4I (32GB, no issues) vs. QVL RAM at the 64GB limit - OK for some time and then errors erupted.
For the X10SDV-7TP4F, I am operating the system at the 128GB RAM limit and using exact factory spec QVL RAM has resulted in no errors since. Obviously, I may have also gotten unlucky re: the initial RAM sticks in the X10SDV, but it doesnât explain why the two sets would post OK as a single pair and pass every memtest yet would not get recognized successfully when inserted as two sets of parallel pairs - only one of them would.
I highly recommend looking at an Arc A310 or like GPU for that application. Very inexpensive and highly optimized for QuickSync operations. X16 slot which sadly interferes with the components on my motherboard, such that Iâd have to use an extension cable and x8 to x16 converter. The A310 uses less than 50W so itâs powered solely by the PCIe Bus, which is a plus.
Thanks for the advice. Sadly it turns out that my system is so old it wonât even support a x16 card in a x8 slot. I suspect the problem lies with power negotiation: the card needs 30W, but the x8 slot spec only allows up to 25W. The card doesnât even show up in the BIOS as a consequence.
Any update on the components you have finally chosen? Iâm in a similar situation and very interested in what you ended up getting.
