Processing Server with multiple USB3 ports.

[example5545]

Budget (including currency): Practically Unlimited.

Country: Australia

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Medium CPU usage, High RAM usage, and no GPU usage. Copying files from one storage device to another.

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

 

Looking at building a processing server with approx 6 USB ports which can all run at approx 200MB/s sustained rate. 

Without going too much into detail, as it relates to my job, I need to transfer large amounts of data (1-8TB) at a time to external USB hard drives - ideally I would like to use something like unraid or freenas to have multiple VMS with dedicated USB ports. Each VM will run software to download data to a hard drive - simultaneously. As a minimum it requires 6x USB3 Ports (2x USB2 for mouse/keyboard - if required), 4 SATA ports, a Processor which can be split into 3x PCs - Software used does not have high CPU usage. RAM required approx 64GB per VM. 

 

Any suggestions would be great. Open to suggestions, unfortunately I can't go into the software or use of due to NDAs.

 

[my name is guru iam tech]

43 minutes ago, example5545 said:

Budget (including currency): Practically Unlimited.

Country: Australia

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Medium CPU usage, High RAM usage, and no GPU usage. Copying files from one storage device to another.

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

 

Looking at building a processing server with approx 6 USB ports which can all run at approx 200MB/s sustained rate. 

Without going too much into detail, as it relates to my job, I need to transfer large amounts of data (1-8TB) at a time to external USB hard drives - ideally I would like to use something like unraid or freenas to have multiple VMS with dedicated USB ports. Each VM will run software to download data to a hard drive - simultaneously. As a minimum it requires 6x USB3 Ports (2x USB2 for mouse/keyboard - if required), 4 SATA ports, a Processor which can be split into 3x PCs - Software used does not have high CPU usage. RAM required approx 64GB per VM. 

 

Any suggestions would be great. Open to suggestions, unfortunately I can't go into the software or use of due to NDAs.

 

I Don't Think So You Need USB For This Case, You Need Ethernet

other tahn that i don't know anything else becuz iam not a server guy

 

[Eigenvektor]

41 minutes ago, example5545 said:

As a minimum it requires 6x USB3 Ports (2x USB2 for mouse/keyboard - if required), 4 SATA ports, a Processor which can be split into 3x PCs - Software used does not have high CPU usage. RAM required approx 64GB per VM.

If you want 3 VMs with 64 GB each (=192 GB), you're looking at something like 8x 32 GB (=256 GB), which means you're well into server level hardware. You might have better luck finding answers for stuff like that here: https://forum.level1techs.com/

[brob]

Something along the lines of the following should meet spec. There are enough expansion slots to accommodate cards with additional usb ports should they be needed.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: Intel Core i9-10940X 3.3 GHz 14-Core Processor  ($1168.80 @ Device Deal) 
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U12A 60.09 CFM CPU Cooler  ($185.00 @ PCCaseGear) 
Motherboard: MSI X299 PRO ATX LGA2066 Motherboard  ($449.00 @ Scorptec) 
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V 256 GB (8 x 32 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  ($2003.87 @ Amazon Australia) 
Storage: Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($155.00 @ BPC Technology) 
Video Card: MSI GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 2 GB AERO ITX 2GD4 OC Video Card  ($139.00 @ Centre Com) 
Case: Fractal Design Meshify 2 Compact ATX Mid Tower Case  ($179.00 @ JW Computers) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic FOCUS GX 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($219.00 @ PCCaseGear) 
Total: $4498.67
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