I just grabbed a X10SDV-6C-TLN4F for an incredible deal over local craigslist ($160 cash after fully testing in front of him). The manufacturer of the case offers pcie bifurcating chips for different situations. Emailing them about the possibility of wanting 3 lanes including a lane from the nvme adapter which would mount horizontally.
X10SDV-6C-TLN4F
Xeon-D 1528 6/12 1.9/2.5 35w
(2X32GB) 64GB Samsung DDR4 3200 Mhz 2RX8 ECC RDIMM (willing to go 128GB, just dont see how I could actually use that much if anyone has any willgness to chime in after hearing my vdev situation and considering leftover cpu…-- 2x32gb less power than 4x32gb)
Newest Supermicro SataDom 64GB (should i get 2 and use a min cable to power 2nd)?
4x 500GB Crucial MX500 Sata SSD
6x14TB WD Red Plus 5400RPM (Raidz2 ?)
LSI 9305-16i
600W Seasonic Platinum Prime Fanless
– Adding evercool 2x5.25" to 3x3.5" or 6x2.5" Bay that includes a 80MMX20MM Fan, which lines of perfectly with my cases 5x 80x20mm fans that will all be replaced with Noctua NF-8 ULN.
I did measurements and it appears as I can have 3 of my HDD’s mounted in front of the fan in the evercool, then the other 3 in the bare 3x3.5" hdd mount in front of the fan bar. in between the evercool and the psu is another 3x3.5" bare mount which is where I expect I will put my SSDs.
Possible other pcie cards – Nvidia T400 low power recent architecture good for transcode… intel 8960 quick assist card… pairs well with xeon d and psure that last i checked all the qatdmas were loaded in truenas…
You have a single x16 slot, and already plan a HBA. That won’t fit…
See above.
If you only have 6 HDDs, use the on-board slots, drop the HBA, drop the MX500 SATA SSDs, boot from M.2 (NVMe) or a SSD on USB adapter, and either 4 NVMe in the PCIe x16 slot or a x8x4x4 adapter for 2 NVMe and a low-profile dGPU.
Maybe you can use some hints from my build thread:
When i got the MoBo it had a SataDOM on SATA0.
Since i wanted to use all 6 SATA for disks, i wanted to boot of NVME.
To enable that, i upgraded the IPMI FW , and the Bios FW to the latest versions from Supermicro.
IPMI/BIOS Update prep
IPMI/BIOS Update (Pay attention to possible issues using FireFox)
EFI/NVME booting
Note I ended up with UEFI Boot - But SecureBoot NOT enabled, as per advice from someone here.
Then i had no issue booting from NVME (after setting the correct Bios settings).
And had all 6 SATA ports for “Spinning Rust” use.
NOTE:
During HW “preparations” for TrueNAS i had Debian12 installed, that’s the OS version SCALE is build upon. But it’s not “limited” in package install, as SCALE is. Once the hardware & tests were behaving, i installed TrueNAS SCALE.
