Adding Thunderbolt to Thread ripper build. (Is it Possible?)

[Mbarton]

Hello, I have a Ryzen Thread ripper workstation. simply put I want to add a PCI thunderbolt card to access thunderbolt raid arrays. we get sent all the time to offload the data.I have a bit of confusion when looking into some cards look like they can only do video? I want full speed. daisy chain capability. the full thunderbolt package. I did see this card which looks like it would work. but I wanted to confirm compatibly with you guys first. https://www.asrock.com/mb/spec/product.asp?Model=Thunderbolt 3 AIC    

 

Here is the system specs:

• Threadripper 1920X
• ASUS ROG ZENITH EXTREME
• Samsung 970 PRO 
• etc

 

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! 

[DrMacintosh]

 

[Mbarton]

17 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

-video-

Yay!! & Awwww  Come on intel ill pay the licence fee myself! 

How did miss that video I thought I watched all his stuff lol 

[Crunchy Dragon]

Unfortunately, Thunderbolt is only available for Intel systems.

 

Pretty sad really, I'd love to get TB3 on my Ryzen build.

[Mbarton]

If I can't have it on my rendering workstation. I want TB3 on my fileserver running freenas. I was going to go AMD for that build as well but since I have not ordered anything I can still change it. what would be a good setup for this? x99 x299 which chipsets are compatible with TB3?  I want good performance for this file server as it also serves as a plex server and wants it to last a while before an upgrade. so im willing to spend more

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 hour ago, Mbarton said:

If I can't have it on my rendering workstation. I want TB3 on my fileserver running freenas. I was going to go AMD for that build as well but since I have not ordered anything I can still change it. what would be a good setup for this? x99 x299 which chipsets are compatible with TB3?  I want good performance for this file server as it also serves as a plex server and wants it to last a while before an upgrade. so im willing to spend more

why do you want thunderbolt on a nas? 10gbe and sas should work much better

[Mbarton]

6 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

why do you want thunderbolt on a nas? 10gbe and sas should work much better

I don't. But the media companies we work with send me 48TB+ raid arrays that only use Thunderbolt. I need a fast way to offload the data so we can start working on it and get them there Thunderbolt enclosure back 

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, Mbarton said:

I don't. But the media companies we work with send me 48TB+ raid arrays that only use Thunderbolt. I need a fast way to offload the data so we can start working on it and get them there Thunderbolt enclosure back 

Probalby just get a x299 board, or get something like a mac mini to work as a system that takes a thunderbolt drive and puts it to the network.

[Mbarton]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Probalby just get a x299 board, or get something like a mac mini to work as a system that takes a thunderbolt drive and puts it to the network.

That's what I was thinking. I think it makes sense to incorporate it into the file server since im building it anyway. it has 10gb and TB3 can do 40gb. but i doubt the raid can do better than 10gb

[Mbarton]

Are there any workstation/server grade motherboards for x299 this will be a 24/7 fileserver with ECC ram and it needs to be stable with no downtime after deployment

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Mbarton said:

That's what I was thinking. I think it makes sense to incorporate it into the file server since im building it anyway. it has 10gb and TB3 can do 40gb. but i doubt the raid can do better than 10gb

hdd raid will struggle ot get bast 10gbe speeds, so your probably fine there. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Mbarton said:

Are there any workstation/server grade motherboards for x299 this will be a 24/7 fileserver with ECC ram and it needs to be stable with no downtime after deployment

well x299 has no support for ecc(officallly)

 

if you don't mind xeon w you get get a board like this for offical thunderbolt support and a xeon w, you don't seen to need much cpu power, and the xeon w gets you more pcie lanes at a lower price https://www.amazon.com/WS-C422-PRO-SE-Motherboard/dp/B0794D3HBM