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Appears Casetify has finally removed the 'inside out' collection from their site, which displays some degree of guilt on their behalf.

Appears Casetify has finally removed the 'inside out' collection from their site, which displays some degree of guilt on their behalf.

Appears Casetify has finally removed the 'inside out' collection from their site, which displays some degree of guilt on their behalf.

Appears Casetify has finally removed the 'inside out' collection from their site, which displays some degree of guilt on their behalf.

Appears Casetify has finally removed the 'inside out' collection from their site, which displays some degree of guilt on their behalf.

yep, looks like it... checked the site out and it's now blank...

Appears Casetify has finally removed the 'inside out' collection from their site, which displays some degree of guilt on their behalf.

Appears Casetify has finally removed the 'inside out' collection from their site, which displays some degree of guilt on their behalf.

Appears Casetify has finally removed the 'inside out' collection from their site, which displays some degree of guilt on their behalf.

Appears Casetify has finally removed the 'inside out' collection from their site, which displays some degree of guilt on their behalf.

Appears Casetify has finally removed the 'inside out' collection from their site, which displays some degree of guilt on their behalf.

Finished rebuilding my primary system, went with the Thermaltake Tower 900, 2x 480mm EK PE radiators, 2x XSPC D5 Photon 170’s, and ML120 fans.  Still soft tubing though.
 
 
 

Dual Epyc 7601
Multi - 6873
Single - 108
OpenGL - no score
(poor quality screen shot over rdp)
 

Dual Epyc 7601
Multi - 6873
Single - 108
OpenGL - no score
(poor quality screen shot over rdp)
 

It would get a little convoluted but you could get this:
 
http://amfeltec.com/products/pci-express-gen-3-carrier-board-for-4-m-2-ssd-modules/
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SKU Item Qty Unit Price --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SKU-086-01 SQUID PCIe Carrier Board for up to 4 M.2 SSD modules 1 $ 367.38 USD (M.2 key M) (x16 PCIe upstream interface, full size bracket) The follow options are available for the same price: - Low profile PCI Express bracket - x4 and x8 PCI Express upstream interface SKU-086-34 SQUID PCIe Carrier Board for up to 4 M.2 SSD modules 1 $ 465.00 USD (M.2 key M) Gen 3 (x16 PCIe upstream interface, full size bracket) The follow options are available for the same price: - Low profile PCI Express bracket - x8 PCI Express upstream interface  
And two/three of these: 

 
And these:

@LinusTech needs to run that dual Xeon platform few times more, score from recent video is 6845  

Dual Epyc 7601
Multi - 6873
Single - 108
OpenGL - no score
(poor quality screen shot over rdp)
 

Dual Epyc 7601
Multi - 6873
Single - 108
OpenGL - no score
(poor quality screen shot over rdp)
 

Dual Epyc 7601
Multi - 6873
Single - 108
OpenGL - no score
(poor quality screen shot over rdp)
 

Dual Epyc 7601
Multi - 6873
Single - 108
OpenGL - no score
(poor quality screen shot over rdp)
 

yeah doing the research i'm not going to be able to just go out and buy it gonna have to save for a bit but hey if you have any cheaper than the one listed above i'd love to take suggestions

Water cooled servers is not uncommon on the very high end server deployments, HPE SGI comes to mind as a good example. There's also two kinds of server water cooling: Direct to Chip and Rack. Direct to chip is rather obvious but Rack is where there is a heat transfer unit installed in the back of a rack, basically a radiator, that collects the exhaust heat from all the servers and is transferred by water to another room or to the roof of the building where the heat is dissipated by radiators there. Some installations also use chilled water.
 
Weta Digital is a local example for me of someone doing Direct Chip and Rack server water cooling with HPE Apollo servers.
https://cc.cnetcontent.com/vcs/hp-ent/inline-content/TN/8/F/8F8390E2B76346D1D1E4FDD5910ABC99A9682793_source.PDF

Non-raid SAS cards = HBA (host bus adapter)
 
E5-2687W v2 would be better CPU, but not a comparison for cost.
 
If you have a lot of H265 content then it may be more beneficial to run a more current generation processor with QuickSync support.
 
Dual home cases exist but the premium usually outweighs the benefits (the money would be better spent on 2687w cpus IMO).

The unmap is part of the SCSI standard but it's still not clear if proper TRIM support is actually working in ESXi and VMware has never been clear on it. Also unmap is there mostly for VAAI integration with external disk arrays which makes the matter even less clear as to what is actually happening to a local SSD.
 
Externally my 850 Pros over ISCSI and NFS to the ESXi host work fine just not locally on an LSI RAID card, the 6 will push 2GB/s read and 1.5GB/s write over dual path 10Gb.
 
The main issue is it can be hard to spot something is wrong with the SSDs as the IOPs stay rather good (but drop significantly from spec) and ESXi does a fair decent job at I/O caching but if you force an unbuffered disk write you get 60MB/s max. If you take the SSDs out and clean them on a Windows computer and force a GC then put them back in the ESXi host they do 500MB/s again for about 30 minutes to an hour.
 
I forget all the combinations of tests I did but without fail they would slow down unless I did a 20% OP when creating the datastore, which is about the extra internal OP Samsung puts on the enterprise SSDs anyway 480GB SM863 = 512GB Pro

If you can put an HBA instead of a RAID controller (or if the controller supports it, IT mode) and let the O/S handle TRIM / garbage collection for the SSDs, that's fine to do. At least you would put your heavy I/O VMs on the SSDs and things like a domain controller or appliances that run in RAM (firewalls) on spinners. 
 
However if you plan to use a Perc 6 or H700, I'd advise against using SSDs. Also if your hypervisor supports it, boot off of a USB stick, or if the R710 has it, micro-SD. Open the lid and look towards the front of the case, might be a USB port and MicroSD slot.