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Post Date: 2012-05-05

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  Quote devanhcrow Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Topic: Turk Workstation
    Posted: 05 May 2012 at 7:28pm
Budget:
100-125k

Expectations:
This is a custom all purpose professional workstation.

Usage:
Game development, Video editing, Media Production, Graphic Design, ect.

Below is my parts list...

The chassis is rather larger (weighing in at just over 100lbs), it has 10 hot-swappable 3.5" Hard drive Bays which I will use caddies to put 2 SSDs into each 3.5" bay and I will also use a caddy for the 3 optical bays to hold 2 additional SSDs each) for a total of 26 SSDs in a raid 0 for the read/write performance. I plan to use a PCI Flash Hard Drive for the Operating system and the Raid 0 for programs, ect. I will also have a separate 4U JBOD box with 45 3TB Hard drives for a total of 135TBs of file storage. The file storage will be backed up using a custom setup using GoodSync.

Hard ware experts/parts experts.. please review my config below and provide feedback as you see fit.. I realize I may have conflicts below and that is my point of asking for help on this.. I want everything to fit together before even thinking of signing off on the parts list.

Also Im going to need a good source for computer cords, ect as I will need to customize the cord arrangement.

If you need to reference links for the parts, I have live links on this domain ... " turk work station DOT com "

Parts List for ACE "SkyNET" TURK WorkStation 2012

Estimate Cost: > $110k

Computer Enclosures: Clean-Aire Computer Enclosures ~~$2000

Chassis:
[1] SuperChassis 850P4 $350 (paid for already)

Power Supply:
[3] Enermax Maxrevo Series 1350W ATX12V / EPS12V v2.92, v2.8 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80+ Gold Certified Full Modular $957

Heat Sync:
[4] Phanteks PH-TC14PE 140mm UFB (Updraft Floating Balance) CPU Cooler $89/$356

Air Conditioning Unit:
[1] TrippLite SRCOOL12K Portable Air Conditioning Unit - 12,000 BTU / 3.4 kW, 120V AC 60Hz $639.99

RAID Controller:
[1] Adaptec RAID 6805 2270100-R 6Gb/s SATA/SAS 8 internal ports w/ 512MB cache memory Controller Card $549

Processor:
[4] Sixteen-Core AMD Opteron™ Model 6282 SE - 2.6GHz 32MB Cache (140W TDP) $1037ea/$4148

Motherboard:
[1] Supermicro H8QG6+-F (SLOTS) - SWTX - AMD SR5690+SR5670 Chipset - LSI SAS2 Controller $1129

PCI Express Expansion:
[1] Sixteen Slot PCI Express Expansion System $4500

Memory:
[32] 16GB PC3-8500 1066MHz DDR3 ECC Registered DIMM $14,313.26

Memory Heat Spreader:
[8] Corsair Airflow Fan For Up To 6 Modules $25/$200

Memory Heat Spreader Monitor:
[4] Corsair CMXAFPRO AirFlow PRO LED Memory Activity Monitor $49.99/$392

Hard Drive (for OS)
[1] OCZ Technology Revo Drive 3 X 2 Max IOPS PCI-E Full Height 240 GB SSD - RVD3MIX2-FHPX4-240G $897

Hard Drives (for programs)
[26] OCZ Vertex 4 VTX4-25SAT3-512G 2.5" 512GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) $649/$16,874

4U JOBOD NAS (for storage)
[1] Stratum S4045S Starting out with 3TB | Full capsity of 135TB

Large Capacity Hard Drives (for NAS)
[45] Seagate Constellation ES.2 ST33000651SS 3TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SAS 6Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive $429/$19305

4U Cabinet Rack
[1] Gizmac Accessories XrackPro2 Rackmount Noise Reduction Enclosure Cabinet Rack - 4U $556.63

5.25" Bay Adapter
[3] 2.5 Inch HDD SSD to 5.25Inch Bay Adapter Brackets HD-BR25SS $21.69/$43.38

3.5" HDD Converter
[10] Thermaltake AC0014 3.5" HDD Converter for 2.5" SATA & SSD Hard Drives $9.99/$99.90

External Disk Drive:
[1] Buffalo BR3D-12U3 MediaStation External 12x Blu-Ray Burner - BD-R 12x, BD-RE 2x, DVD±R 16x, DVD+RW 8x, DVD-RW 6x, DVD-RAM 5x, CD-R 40x, CD-RW 24x, USB 3.0, Tray $334.99

Quadro Video Card:
[1] PNY NVIDIA Quadro 6000 6.0GB GDDR5 (1xDVI-DL, 2xDP, 1xST) $3,998

Telsa Video Card:
[1] NVIDIA 900-21030-0020-100 Tesla C2075 Workstation Card - 6GB, GDDR5, PCI-Express 2.0 (x16), 1x Dual-Link DVI-I, 1.03 Tflops, Dual-Slot $2,500

Sound Card:
[2] HT | OMEGA CLARO Plus+ 7.1 Channels 24-bit 192KHz (PCI Express) $299.98

OS:
Microsoft Windows Server 7/8 ? $1800
Thermal Compound:
Arctic Silver® 5

Remote Thin Client:
[1] Digital Storm Series $7113 (custom laptop)


Advise on ANY of the above.. compatibility, ect is desired.
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  Quote FrankW Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 06 May 2012 at 9:24am
Hi devanhcrow,

Well I am not into enterprise type systems but what you have looks pretty good. I did notice that the PCIe Express Expansion unit is for PCIe 2.0. I just want to be sure you don't want it to be PCIe 3.0 with its wider bandwidth.   

The only other item that I noted is the SSD RAID. I don't know your experience so take that into consideration. If you have only worked with HDDs before then I can understand why you would think RAID-0 would be a benefit. With SSD the speed is so much faster than a HDD that you don't really need to RAID-O them. If you have worked with RAID-0 SSDs in the past and feel there is a speed increase I would like to hear about your experience.

It seems like you have a Back-up plan and you will need that with all those SSDs in RAID-0. You will have so many large SSD drives that I would expect some level of failure. You could lose a lot of data if you are not diligent on backing up.

I also noticed your cases and the use of filters. That is good but the best protection is a sterile room. Do you have a way of creating a filtered positive pressure in the com room? That is always the first line of defense against dust and contamination of equipment.

Good luck with your system and how about some pictures when you get it set up.

Frank

Edited by FrankW - 06 May 2012 at 9:25am
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