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Theyre quite loud and the onboard raid controller only supports up to 2TB drives and i have 4x4TB ones so it seems like a bad choice for me. However the price is nice Awesome thanks for the info

As for the network card I'm not sure, it has 2 so hopefully they work since I dont have room really to put a dedicated nic in there since i have plans for the pcie slot Yeah i switched up the PSU a bit since looking into things, thanks. As for the RAM im trying to keep it somewhat budget friendly and I'll upgrade to 32 eventually, I just want 16 to play around with for now, I'm not planning on doing lots of VMs. I'll have to take a look into that r710 server more, thats pretty cheap. I'm just worried about how loud that will be and I guess how long it will live. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-PowerEdge-R710-Virtualization-Server-8-Core-48GB-4x300GB-15K-1-2TB-PERC6i-/171307537270 looks like a good one? edit: yeah that r710 is loud Would need to run an ethernet line to the basement or something

Okay thats good to know, and yeah I don't plan on running many windows VMs. Main one is going to be linux or BSD and the rest are just random things I decide to play with. Just want to make sure its all compatible with ESXI since I hear its really picky.

Hey wondering if ESXI will run on this, specifically kaby lake PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i5-7500 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($189.99 @ SuperBiiz) Motherboard: ASRock H270M-ITX/ac Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard ($96.99 @ Newegg) Memory: G.Skill Aegis 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($104.88 @ OutletPC) Case: Fractal Design Node 304 Mini ITX Tower Case ($69.99 @ SuperBiiz) Power Supply: SeaSonic Platinum 400W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular Fanless ATX Power Supply ($106.50 @ Jet) Total: $568.35 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-03-21 19:45 EDT-0400

Well yeah it would work but I would be using that like all the time which would probably be a bad idea. I'm definitely mulling over the HBA/SAS thing. There only like 65$ on ebay which isnt too bad. If only server boards weren't a good chunk more expensive than regular boards however I guess once you take into consideration the price of the HBA/SAS board being built into the motherboard its not too much more. Thanks for the tip, I'll have to look into doing that since then I could get ECC memory as well edit: is there a way to find out if the motherboard has 2 separate controllers beforehand?

Ah of course, more cost Luckily only 13$ or so. So essentially my choices are as follows, 1. use raid 5 to combine all the drives into 1 mount point i can assign the guest host 2. get the HBA to hook up to the 4 drives and pass the HBA controller to the guest host to use ZFS with. I had absolutely no idea that HBA/SAS existed so I'm glad i posted here. I was going to try to assign like 4 separate datastore chunks to the guest host then use zfs on them like that. or at least attempt to and probably meet failure. Mostly all the drives are going to host is media files like tv shows, movies, etc so I'm not entirely sure if i need to worry about bitrot when it comes to that but I suppose it wouldn't be a bad thing to protect against incase I decide to expand from that stuff.

Alright I'll have to check the read/write stats on the SSD. I dont really need zfs its just the first solution recommended to me to make a big 12TB pool and my current server happened to have ECC memory so it was a pretty nice solution. The new server wont have ECC since server mobos are way expensive but I'm not too worried about that. What would you recommend if at the end of the day I'm just trying to turn 4x4TB drives into 1 big mount point, zfs or raid 5? Also with that HBA linked in the second post it says 8 ports but I only see 2 on it, am i missing something?

Yikes that adds the budget quite a bit. I see though, that would make a lot more sense. I guess the only issue is right now the SSD is through a pcie card and the motherboards that fit in the case i want only have 1. Assuming i went this HBA/SAS card route, i would need another harddrive for OS stuff since the 4 drives connected to the HBA/SAS would be basically owned the the filestore server correct? I have this old ssd (https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148348) that i bought back in 2011, Would be able to use that for the OS partitions of guest operating systems or since its like 6 years old now should i avoid it? It has been sitting in my closet for about 2-3 years now and Im trying to find a use for it.

Hey, right now i have a hp proliant server and the CPU isnt cutting it for my needs anymore. I am planning to upgrade to an I5 or something similar for some more performance. I figured this would be a good time to play with VM stuff on a server. My current server has 4x4TB drives in ZFS raid an the OS running on a 32gb ssd. If i wanted to recreate that in a VM how should I go about doing that? From what i've pieced together it seems I should install esxi on a usb/sd card, create the VM and give it space from the SSD and 4x4TB drives then create a ZFS raid with the 4TB drives? (I also read something about just passing the controller through to the VM?) Basically I just want to let this VM have access to a big 12TB mount for movies and tv shows and such. It doesnt need to be ZFS it's just what i've worked with. Or should I do raid 5 from the motherboard and assign the VM the one partition instead of doing software raid in the VM. This is the hardware I am planning on using https://pcpartpicker.com/list/gwmJGf (cheaper variant) https://pcpartpicker.com/list/ZBGNZ8 Thanks!

Well I meant more so if the general chip is good or bad at over clocking. I know its an extremely variable thing between each chip, but it seems the 4770k is pretty bad at it. I'll give it a try at a higher voltage. Thanks for your help!

well i was on the forums and it crashed when i went to go reply haha. Time to go to 4.1 i guess. Ill give IBT like 20-30 cycles before letting prime95 go overnight later. Next time i buy a processor upgrade, I'll definitely have to read about OC reviews first...

Ah, that would make sense i suppose. the TIM is how its connected inside right? If i remember right it was they thermal pasted it instead of soldered it correct? So people delid and use better paste? I tried doing that, would run fine for days gaming, then randomly crash so I figured i should make it 100% stable well if thats the case then that sucks haha. Guess ill try and find a reasonable OC and forget about it. I bumped it down to 1.25v @ 4.2ghz and no instant crash, and just shy of 80C so i guess this is about where I will be at.

Hello all, After buying a H105 I figured I would mess with overclocking a little bit and ran into the AVX instruction set issue with haswell I suppose. Either I lost the chip lottery or this AVX thing is crazy. I had my OC up to 4.4 @ 1.25V, I passed IBT on high settings 20 times without a problem, did aida for 30 minutes without a problem. Load up prime 95 (using avx) blend test and crashed within 20 seconds with the 101 BSOD error which apparently means needs more vcore. So i bumped it up to 1.3v an instant crashed again I feel like going past 1.3v isn't really worth it. I bumped my OC down to 4.2 and it seems like its been going alright so far, 10 minutes in and I havent crashed. My question is should i just ignore the AVX instruction set and stress test without using it? From what I saw not many programs used it? I'd like to be stable, but I feel like this AVX thing hampers a lot of potential. Am i thinking about this all wrong? Thanks

Alright thanks! I thought so, but still pretty new to messing around with this kind of stuff.

Hello all, My mobo comes with a cpu_opt & cpu_fan header, is it safe/okay to plug 2 different AIO water cooling pumps into both of those as long as i set my bios for them to run at full power? Thanks!