Small office server. Toughts

[LAazsx]

Hi Peeps!

 

Buildings a small office server in the coming weeks. It'll be running several VMs - File/Print Server, development env, some database servers, Plex(maybe?), and some other non-essential random VMs. Aside from the file server, I don't mind loosing the rest. 

 

Tentative specs are as follows

 

CPU: Ryzen 2700 (cores > IPC)

RAM: 32GB (16x2) G SKill 3200

Mobo: Gigabyte B450 Aorus M

GPU: anything that's laying around the house

PSU: EVGA 500BV

Storage:

• Primary: 1x 500GB Samung 970 Evo (high IOPs, VMs will be stored here; not sure if this is overkill) 
• Primary: 2x 250GB Samsung 970 EVO [RAID1] -OS and DBs
• VMs: 2x 2TB Seagate Barracuda [RAID1]
• Secondary Storage: 2x Iron Wolf 4TB [RAID1] - will prolly setup storage pass through. only file server VM will have access to this.

OS: Hyper V Server.

Edited November 6, 2019 by LAazsx
Updated Primary Storage and added VM RAID

[leadeater]

Personally I would RAID 1 that SSD storage as a loss of that would be rather impactful. Even with the important data on the HDD mirror you'll still have to rebuild everything to be back up and functioning again.

[LAazsx]

Point taken.

 

Will x2 vs x4 be noticable in this instance? All of the boards I've seen in this price range has the 2nd M.2 at only x2.

 

[NelizMastr]

1 hour ago, LAazsx said:

Point taken.

 

Will x2 vs x4 be noticable in this instance? All of the boards I've seen in this price range has the 2nd M.2 at only x2.

 

Nah. Not really. It's still way faster than SATA and even that is fast enough for most VMs, even database servers. If you can, run the database on the SSD array.

[GoldenLag]

4 hours ago, LAazsx said:

CPU: Ryzen 2700 (cores > IPC)

you might be interested in how stupidly cheap the 12 core 1920x is atm. tho you will end up spending extra on the cooler and the motherboard. 

[LAazsx]

Updated original post. 

Smaller SSD in RAID1 (Samsungs are expensive)

Added HDD RAID1 for non intensive VMs

 

11 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

Nah. Not really. It's still way faster than SATA and even that is fast enough for most VMs, even database servers. If you can, run the database on the SSD array.

Got it.

 

7 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

you might be interested in how stupidly cheap the 12 core 1920x is atm. tho you will end up spending extra on the cooler and the motherboard. 

Unfortunately, 1st gen threadripper is out of stock and the second hand market here in the Philippines is AWFUL. 4790k's still go for 100-115USD.

[GoldenLag]

3 minutes ago, LAazsx said:

Unfortunately, 1st gen threadripper is out of stock and the second hand market here in the Philippines is AWFUL. 4790k's still go for 100-115USD.

Oh, they go for 260$  new in the US

[LAazsx]

2 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

Oh, they go for 260$  new in the US

and the 2920x is just going for 329$ (the price of a 3700x) on amazon. you guys are lucky.

[GoldenLag]

18 minutes ago, LAazsx said:

and the 2920x is just going for 329$ (the price of a 3700x) on amazon. you guys are lucky.

Well, i dont live there, i just happen to know the pricing

[NelizMastr]

46 minutes ago, LAazsx said:

Updated original post. 

Smaller SSD in RAID1 (Samsungs are expensive)

Added HDD RAID1 for non intensive VMs

 

Got it.

 

Unfortunately, 1st gen threadripper is out of stock and the second hand market here in the Philippines is AWFUL. 4790k's still go for 100-115USD.

I still see 4790Ks go for close to €200 which is retarded. Some people are just Intel fanboys I guess. I'd pick even a 9400F over one of those any day of the week, let alone a R5 3600.

[geo3]

On 11/5/2019 at 8:48 PM, LAazsx said:

It'll be running several VMs - File/Print Server, development env, some database servers, Plex(maybe?), and some other non-essential random VMs

That seems like a lot to ask of a desktop part.  For such a use case I would start with a minimum of 16 cores. 

[LAazsx]

23 hours ago, geo3 said:

That seems like a lot to ask of a desktop part.  For such a use case I would start with a minimum of 16 cores. 

Load is bust-y. 2700 is lots for my current needs tbh. just found a retailer selling it for only 175$..