ASRock Rack ROMED8-2T Review, proto-Build & Chat. What do you want to see?

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[@marvintpandroid2213]

I like big boards and I can not lie.

[@virtualinfinity6280]

I use this board since May 2020 and found it to be without issues and rock solid. Paired with a 7702p, 512G RAM and loads of NVMe storage, I use it for simulating compute infrastructures (OpenShift, OpenStack, Simulators for appliances like F5, NetAPP, A10 and whatnot. I wanted a board with BMC, tons of IO and nothing else. I like populating slots myself, not being forced to live with the peripheral choices made by the manufacturer for me. The onboard X550 NICs are perfectly fine for me and quite capable 10G NICs, however. BIOS allows to tinker with pretty much every option in EPYC and under Linux it is just plain perfect. Not a single parsing error in the ACPI tables, everything perfectly supported down to i2c&friends and not the faintest sign of instability. Yes, it is expensive, but if you are shopping at that price point and have similar requirements, I'd take a very close look. I can only recommend it.

[@menhirmike]

Built a system with that and the 120W EPYC 7282 last year, lovely setup! It's called ROME because it came out all the way back when Rome was new, and replaced the 1st Gen EPYCD8-2T. Also, remote KVM without additional licensing cost or other nonsense is AWESOME. It lives in a Rosewill RSV-L4000 case, which isn't fancy or hotswap, but has enough space (plus a pair of ASUS Hyper M.2 PCIE4 cards to house NVMe M.2 SSDs). Finding compatible RAM was a bit tricky back then, but checking the official memory compatibility list led me to Samsung M393A8G40AB2-CWE, which work perfect and at 3200 speed. The PDF User manual contains a great diagram of how PCIe lanes are allocated, which is a good visual representation of the lane options for Slot 2.

[@towaso]

Regarding the RAM: x Kingston Server Premier 32GB DDR4-3200 CL22 (KSM32RD4/32MEI) also works like a charm.

[@fredEVOIX]

thanks it's always useful when people give info about which other hardware or cases they use, also the lanes diagram is great I've been owned twice already on that aspect

[@1armbiker]

Moving to my Supermicro F628R3 from a Dell T620 was a breath of fresh air when it comes to IPMI, so nice not having to worry about any licensing crap and almost everything is there. Only thing behind a license I think is the remote bios and BMC updating.

[@michawezowski2573]

Weird idea, but I would like to see a Factorio benchmark as an extension of Ryzen 3d cache test from a recent video. While it's not a sane use case, it could highlight (or not) how far the cpu cache could go in an area where you wouldn't expect to have it.

[@bulzaiguard]

I have this motherboard myself and i'm loving it

[@danialbarghi5787]

I've been watching your channel for years and believe me I was shocked when you said "when we reach a million subs." keep on the good work I hope you do asap.

[@Dan-Simms]

It's wild that you guys don't have a million subs yet, you do great work.

[@shammyh]

Worth noting that both iSCSI and core ZFS functionalities (eg hashing, TX log stuff, parity calcs, etc) are all multi threaded, on both Truenas Scale and Core. What's *not* multi-threaded is individual Samba or NFS connections. I still see the benefit of high core clocks for a storage server... But only specific parts of most storage servers are going to be single-thread bound.

[@Alphahydro]

I have the non-10 gig variant in a Define R6 and it fits just fine. You have to remember to remove one of the chassis standoffs to avoid shorting out the motherboard, considering server board standoff orientation is different from consumer/gaming boards.

[@esotericjahanism5251]

does the board support bifurcation?

[@Alphahydro]

@@esotericjahanism5251 the variant I have is a tad older, but I think I recall seeing bifurcation settings in the BIOS.

[@esotericjahanism5251]

@@Alphahydro thank you for your answer.

[@Phynix72]

It may be a bad idea but I want to see this thing to be a "everything at once" build which includes 4-6 bay NAS, 1Gig 4-port Pfsense for WiFi APs, Home IoT dockers, virtualise Windows & RDP it to Chromebook, casual 1080p@60fps gaming.

[@morosis82]

I have a Supermicro H11SSL-i that I've got most of that running on. What you're thinking is hyperconverged. I built it in a Supermicro tower that's been converted to a rack mount (CSE743)

[@glutenfreegam3r177]

I recently combined my server and editing rigs as I am moving and space will be limited. Its an oldy but goody 1920X Threadripper with an Asus Hyper NVME expansion card coupled with 4x SSD and approx 10x HDD's in the Define 7 XL..I will be adding more storage and with some clever 3D printing I can squeeze 10X SSD's and 20+ HDD's (3.5") and will beadding/upgrading the storage capacity over time. Eventually I would like to find a 2nd gen Threadripper..maybe a 2970WX and a better mobo to boot. Currently rocking an EVGA 3070 FTW3 Ultra and a mere 64GB memory. Plenty of room for improvement but its a huge upgrade from the AM4 Athlon APU that started this servers life. Thanks for sharing..that mobo looks like a powerhouse! Can't wait to see your build progress

[@michaelbyrd4004]

Thanks for the video. Would love to see this used as a multi GPU virtualization server for several machines to use simultaneously.

[@baronvandragon2427]

Prehaps the Silverstone RM224 2U or the RM43-320-RS 4U server chassis could peak your interest. Hot swap fans and SSD/HDD trays. Rack mountable as well.

[@shammyh]

Would love to see a video on building your own DIY NVME backplane. Ie, pcie switch cards with breakout to some kind of 3d printed M2 or U2 drive holder? Basically, anything to build a 20-24x nvme backplane, but without paying the OEM markup for an nvme chassis/backplane. Thanks!!

[@morosis82]

I'd love to see something smaller, I want 4x u.2 disks but the only way to do that without a proper server is individually cabled or there's an icybox mb699vp-b which is a 4x u.2 cage for 5.25 bays, but expensive. I'd love to slot 4x sff8639 cables into a printed cage for connectivity, as they can be had for about $25 each.

[@samzx81]

I just recently got a couple of those 14TB Toshiba N300's to use with my ROCKPro64 as a NAS.

[@samzx81]

Hopefully getting two of the same drive at the same time won't come back to bite me. I do have an 8TB SMR drive that I plan to do the occasional backup to while it's large enough. I imagine by the time I'll need to buy another bigger drive to do backup's too they'll be cheaper with HAMR.

[@ephy-san]

Supermicro should learn from AsRock on how bifurcation settings in a BIOS should look like. Been rocking this board with a 7402P since June 2020. Love this thing with the versatility. I have 2x ASUS Hyper M.2 cards, 1x x4x4x4x4 U.2 Card for 4x U.2 nvmes, 1x P2000, 1x 1080TI (its ok to disable that slot 2...), 1x external SAS to my JBOD underneath.

[@morosis82]

My H11SSL-I looks pretty much like this, not sure what you mean.

[@TheExard3k]

Quad U.2 card? Or 4x M.2 card with adapter cables to U.2? I prefer slimSAS with PciE connectivity though.

[@ephy-san]

@@morosis82 My X10DSRL-F is confusing as hell that references the block diagram. I think Level1 did a video at some point showing the board. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqeWnpmJirRjpqs heres a link for reference.

[@morosis82]

@@ephy-san it's probably because of the PCIe lanes available. Epyc has so many you can have 6 or 7 PCIe 16x slots and still left over for other stuff.

[@morosis82]

@@ephy-san yeah just took a look, every slot can bifurcate to either x4x4, x8x8 or x4x4x4x4 depending on whether it's a x16 or x8 slot

[@drew_scottsdale]

this is a great board. My only complaint is not being able to switch the minisas to pcie mode like some other boards.

[@oldveeh]

Could not find a related post in the forum so I'll post here. I have similar setup yes. 4x8To iron wolf in RAID5. I'm using mdadm to spin the raid (proxmox host). The raid drive is path trough a VM and the VM mount is ext4. and I use samba to share it. This is a very basic setup, I like having the VM as a nas and the directly the host, so I can control the resources allocation, and it wont eat up the host resources. And also for permission, user creation, samba conf, etc... it's not mixed up with the host, and that's really good. I never really run benchmark on it. In write I have about 250M/s when I copy large files. For read, I never had any issues, I have a couple of kodi and a docker with emby, I tried once to have them all playing at the same time no problem. (1080p) have not tried 4k though, I could lol. Now I'm knocking on wood but never had a drive failure and it has been running for a few year now. For my use case, it's perfect. I know there is stuff like true nas that is certenly more sexy, but honestly, to share folder and hold data forever, I don't care about the webinterface. I'll watch the forum see if any post pop up. Let me know if you have questions.

[@4brigger]

That's a really nice shirt Wendell.

[@LinuxJediMaster]

@13:50 I think you meant Mini-SAS HD instead of SlimSAS

[@mrwonk]

I installed a 7371 what likewise was fast, but not a lot of cores. I run VM's hosting dedicated virtual desktops on that machine, so I wanted to be sure the users had snappy performance.

[@2amNerd]

So I have the EPYCD8-2T version of this, could you not use the SFF-8643 ports with a SFF-8643 to SFF-8087 cable to run a back plane like in the RPC-4224?

[@jmwintenn]

i was thinking of the IcyDock nvm cage, it's like 8 m.2 nvme per 5.25 bay. it uses oculink or sweet pcie 4.0 16x. absurd density. very pricey though, neat to dream.

[@cdoublejj]

i'd sure like to see the case you wind up with, it's almost like we need an open source design for something laser cut, rack mount with large 3.5 count is hard to find

[@jacobburgin826]

Is this board a single cpu version of the ROME2D16? I can't get any stock of the D8-2T but there is stock of the ROME2D16 dual CPU..?

[@MrTubeuser12]

HGST mechanical SAS/SATA drives are pretty solid if you're looking for durability.

[@jurepecar9092]

You're setting Determinism Slider in the bios wrong. It's confusing but setting it to Performance means that cpu will satisfy minimum performance expected from it while setting it to Power means that cpu will run as fast as it can and give you the best performance. You can find this info in the AMD's HPC tuning guide.

[@Gastell0]

SATA DOM from previous generation (which was totally not usable for SATA DOM) was replaced with USB-C header, which is much better exchange for both servers and workstations use sine using M.2 for OS is still a better choice. Toshiba N300, I bought 6 of 8TB and RMA'ed of them within a month, not a great initial impression, but they did replace them without any questions asked and very quickly once you contacted them directly

[@droknron]

I've been wanting this motherboard for a while, always out of stock in my country. I'd love for you to detail a few things more about it, for instance it has no dedicated CPU fan header, do you just use one of the 7 fan headers noted in the manual as SYSTEM? - Also neither the CPU's or these motherboards come with the AMD retention socket screwdriver (like Threadripper comes with), is it safe to just tightened down the socket with a normal screwdriver by hand? And finally, this motherboards front-IO (power, reset, activity indicator etc) are turned 90 degrees downwards. Does this affect compatibility in chassis cases like the popular ones people buy for home storage servers? (4U and such).

[@Raintiger88]

I wish you would also include a WD RED Pro in that grudge match

[@aemonblackfyre4159]

i was looking at that board for a while now. I'd love to see you try to get storage running on the oculink connectors. i know pcie nvme should be easy but normal sata or sas? that would be awesome.

[@etp4379]

Has anyone been able to get this motherboard to work with thunderbolt? I heard it had a header but it needs a custom bios.

[@marcasswellbmd6922]

ASRock stepped their game up over the last 5 years big time..

[@TheExard3k]

Well, their server branch has a much better reputation than their consumer stuff.

[@JoeWayne84]

God Tier workstation

[@ewenchan1239]

I would LOVE to be able to build a storage server like that, but it's just still too cost prohibitive for me to do so. Maybe one day.

[@PsychoStreak]

I am curious about the cabling and HBAs one would use to handle tha IcyDock 24 bay enclosure. I've been wanting to put together a compact file server using SSD's for a while now, but the drive cost has been the main hindrance. An Epyc setup like that is almost certainly not in budget, but I figure it should be straightforward to scale things down to something more affordable.

[@morosis82]

It looks like that doesn't have an expander, so you'd basically need 3x 8 port HBAs, or it looks like there are some older HP 24 port cards available for a reasonable cost (search SAS expander PCIe). The real trick will be throughput, as that many SSDs will saturate a PCIe slot pretty easily, but if you don't plan 9nnreading from all of them simultaneously it would probably be fine.

[@jGRite]

Looking forward to the Toshiba vs Seagate battle.

[@TheExard3k]

I'd rather see Toshiba MG08/09 vs Seagate Exos. I never understood the hype for NAS drives.

[@oscarcharliezulu]

Took me ages to notice the federation badge.

[@KevinKerwin]

motherboard stops at code 22. Anyone else seen this. Never boots when I get that code using non NVram. Is that the problem?

[@lolibreeder2211]

Please someone help me, what is that 4b error he had I have the same one and cannot figure out how to get past it

[@Meatguitarhamjam]

Hubba hubba. I ordered the mATX version of this to replace the ROMED8-2T I coughed up to my previous employer.

[@sugarmaker67]

Would make an OVERKILL pfSense sfp+ firewall 😉

[@JLGBinken]

What is the link to the forum for this discussion? I personally have been using 4 Seagate EXOS X18 18TB (ST18000NM000J-2TV103) in RAID 5, EXT4 Ubuntu server 20.04 LTS, on my Areca ARC-1882IX-24 for about 7 months without a problem. So far so good. Have had 1 issue with a HDD/Seagate drive over the last 10 year. So very satisfied with reliability for 24/7/365 usage in a SMB environment.

[@PKBO173]

Hello, is it possible to copy and paste settings of bios from one MB into another one somehow ? Thank you for reply.

[@Level1Techs]

Of same model mobo, asus and asrock let.you save bios settings to usb sticks

[@stuartlunsford7556]

Man, Zen 4 Epyc with 128 (at least) gen 5 lanes is going to be insanity. CXL is going to explode into the market with gen 5 and 6 coming out in rapid succession after gen 4!

[@TheExard3k]

Genoa is the only thing holding me back from getting an EPYC Workstation. Pcie 5 and DDR5 memory bandwidth are just too tempting on such a platform.

[@hotstovejer]

I always wanted to try something like 4 4tb gen 4 nvmes in a pcie add in card * 7.

[@TheExard3k]

Then you better get a board without all those slots, but with a bunch of slimSAS to get you lots and lots of U.2. No reason to stick to limited M.2 in a server.

[@christopherjackson2157]

Red shirt .... Brave lol Id like to see an economical server chassis, whattever you decide to do with this. Maybe its a regional thing but they don't seem easy to find Currently Ive got two node 804 cases hacked together with room for 8x3 3.5l" drives and one matx mobo. But it would be nice to have something more professional/off the shelf. As much as I like my solution its a pia to service.

[@rudypieplenbosch6752]

Great serverboard, its affordable, unfortunately the "other" parts are a tad expensive :)

[@TheExard3k]

And filling all those x16 slots isn't cheap either

[@rudypieplenbosch6752]

@@TheExard3k The Sata card is already integrated, including 2 10G,with IPMI and the other server stuff, the board is really a good deal. It's just buying that proc and memory, that's where it really hurts

[@adrian32772]

Using 8 of the 4tb Toshiba N300 for 2 years now on a truenas server. No failures yet, and only one drive with 7x reallocated sectors.

[@patrickalpe1867]

VGPU gaming? Single LAN gaming machine? Like 8 monitors?

[@Banner1986]

Put that sucker in a cse-743 - it's what I did with my m12swa so I could get all those pcie slots used while still being office level quiet.

[@Kurukx]

This is a crazy world., 3D stacking memory included needs too come to consoles so games to take a new leap again. Keep the workload close to the compute. Well GPU are seperate outside Apple's

[@towaso]

The Oculink does not work with the ToughArmor, I've tried everything. My system: Chassis is a Nanoxia Deep Silence 6 Rev B (i can really recommend it) Asrockrack ROMED8-2T Mainboard AMD Epyc 7443P 8x Kingston Server Premier 32GB DDR4-3200 CL22 (KSM32RD4/32MEI) 2x ASUS Hyper M.2 x16 Gen 4 (with each 4x 1TB 970 Evo Plus NVMe) total of 8TB NVMe in a 4 Column Storage Spaces mirror configuration (6+1)x Seagate Exxos X16 & (12 +1) x Samsung 860 Evo in a tiered storage 3 column mirror configuration. Each tier has a hot spare. Some SSDs in RAID for other stuff. Microsemi Adaptec HBA 1100-16i and Broadcom HBA 9405W-16i as Storage controllers SSD Enclose from ICY Dock (ICY DOCK ToughArmor MB998IP-B, ICY DOCK ToughArmor MB516SP-B) Total of 10x 14cm Arctic ARCTIC F14 PWM PST CO Fan 1x Intel X550-T2 from the Mainboard and 1x Intel X710-T2L as an expansion card for network connectivity.

[@abavariannormiepleb9470]

This might be an issue with ASRock Rack, have been testing Icy Dock’s U.2 OCuLink backplane on various AM4 systems with passive standard PCIe adapters as well as an active PCIe Switch NVMe HBA and the only issues I’ve run into is bad-quality cables and bad (Broadcom HBA) firmware. I’d invite you to present your issues in my PCIe adapters thread in the Level1techs Forum.

[@towaso]

@@abavariannormiepleb9470 I think i need a special cable but cannot find the correct one. I tried several including SuperMicro CBL-SAST-0972 . I gave up in the end , now using another HBA.

[@TheExard3k]

Ive seen warnings on Icydock products regarding compatibility problems with OCulink

[@abavariannormiepleb9470]

@@TheExard3k That’s true, however the waters are becoming quite muddy here quite quickly due to extreme quality issues with SFF cables when going for PCIe Gen4. Icy Dock don’t offer quality-controlled SFF cables themselves and mostly rely on customer feedback what works and what doesn’t. And most customers/users don’t even know to check PCIe Advanced Error Reporting for PCIe Bus Errors due to bad cables or connections, meaning a configuration might actually work but was sabotaged by bad quality cables. It’s a sad topic.

[@fasti8993]

I was planing to build something very similar to what you did: ROMED8-2T EPYC 7302 4 x Kingston Server Premier DDR4 32 GB DIMM 288-PIN 3200 (planing to upgrade to 8 dimms) Seagate FireCuda 530 500 GB 8 x Seagate Iron Wolf 6T Unfortunately I'm having a hard time getting my hands on an ASRock ROMED8-2T board here in Germany. I have ordered the bord almost 2 month ago but it is out of stock everywhere... What I would love to see you do: Put in a Mellanox card and some PCIe gen 4 SSDs, run TrueNas core or scale and try to do 100 or 200 GBits/s. Can you get SMB over RDME to work?

[@morosis82]

Look at the Supermicro H12SSL also. I've got the H11SSL-I, the 12 is another great board.

[@alexmurphy888]

That dashboard page looks suspiciously like the main page for Pi-Hole. Is that some kind of universal template or something?

[@andrewmcfarland57]

I gotta ask: how many of the PCIEx16 slots could we fit with 4x4 m.2 nvme cards, and make work properly (full, simultaneous bifurcation) with this MB/Epyc combination? (i know, who's buying?) Mebbe we could proof it with those slowish $15 laptop nvme? ZFS please. p.s. thanks for the vid. I love this kinda stuff.

[@TheExard3k]

If you want NVMe, this is not the board for you. Asrock Rack has another board with 12xslimSAS for 24x U.2 and the corresponding barebone server chassis. True madness indeed :)

[@amateurwizard]

Where do I post the requested info on Toshiba & IronWolf Drives?

[@Level1Techs]

Here or forum.level1techs.com

[@abavariannormiepleb9470]

1) Does the KVM IPMI work reliably? On AM4 motherboards ASRock Rack‘s firmware quality is something with “room for improvement”… 2) Thunderbolt 3 (Titan Ridge) or 4 “slapped” on an EPYC platform?

[@towaso]

Not really 100%. TB3 does not work without header afaik? I cannot update my BMC from 1.11 to 1.19 due to verification error.

[@popcorny007]

@@towaso I believe you can short two of the pins on the Titan Ridge card header, don't quote me on that though

[@firefinch-shd]

I failed couple of times to get the system boot up. There are no tutorials whatsoever on youtube on how to do the build. 1. Do the build. Mention all the parts used along with boring model numbers. Ideally the best bang for buck RAM (they are crazy expensive) 2. How to boot the machine. This is where i failed consistently. I couldn't view the bios on monitor connected via vga on mobo or using a gpu. And, go over the bios options and what they mean. 3. Install KVM and able to setup multiple VMs. I want to use the machine for NAS (Photos dump) in one VM, Plex server (I know its an overkill) in one VM, Home Automation in one V, Security + Dashcam footage ingestion via NAS through different VM and a regular Fedora or Ubuntu VM for code development VM

[@firefinch-shd]

Also, if you have time, can you experiment with zfs storage for NAS which gives the highest performance?

[@firefinch-shd]

I have 9 16TB IronWolf non-Pro HDD. Yes. It would be good to know what config will get the best efficiency with zfs-raid1/2

[@loadmastergod1961]

Perfect board for flux proof of useful work

[@zack4485]

I can’t find the romed8-2t in the USA for less than ~$700…price seems to be going up not down. For context, I bought a supermicro h12ssl-nt from Newegg brand new for $576 including tax… I think it’s interesting that Wendell calls the asrock board “inexpensive,” but I guess compared to the Gigabyte and Tyan boards he usually reviews it is indeed cheaper… This asrock board is interesting in that it seems to be the ONLY board on the market that supports all three generations of epyc processors.

[@arcataslacker]

Wendel drives demand 💀

[@VTOLfreak]

"installation guide" - "Here's a block diagram, good luck."

[@tokiomitohsaka7770]

These are targeted for professionals. I bet the full instructions are on the website.

[@VTOLfreak]

@@tokiomitohsaka7770 I agree, a pro or experienced builder only needs the block diagram and header layout to get started. The full manual is indeed online, should you ever need it. I've got several ASRock Rack boards and they work great.

[@abavariannormiepleb9470]

But even for professionals ASRock Rack’s firmware quality is something where “May God have mercy on your soul!” might be applicable.

[@danielkarlsson9326]

Toshiba N300 Before the Pandemic was great have 4 8 TB of em which has been more or less benn thru lightingstrikes sauna öeveös of heat and losts of Brown electric shorts with no overcurrent protection 2 from 2017 and 2 from 2018 and they are still going strong. so when i was going to build my own server ii bought 4 more this is in november 2020. as soon as i pop em in i get SEEK ERROR Rate warnings on all of em 001 001 threshhold 50 same on all and same on 4 diffrent computers. im now on my third batch of RMA aka 12 HDD with the same issue produced in mid 2020 late 2020 and early 2021. wouldve RMA them faster but Surgery has been stopping me from beeing able to see. atleast there hasntt been issues with the support. But after 2020 something has been changed on them for the worse either its firmware but i think its the pcb cause i know Husqvarna hade similar issues with their robot mowers and they failed with similar problems as the hdds aka fine until they where under load. srry about my spelliung btw.

[@Morne_Smith]

TrueNAS box?

[@declanmcardle]

Is that Skellig Michael in the background?

[@dunastrig1889]

Woot!

[@epkpro_47]

Rosewill RSV-L4500U 4U Server Chassis Rackmount Case please

[@mrfilipelaureanoaguiar]

The Epyc 7773 is 25 000$ CAD, that is crazy amount of money compared to a intel platinum 9282. US is 8800$ vs 4300$, maybe it's quick but how quicker for the price... Nice non volatile memory but is it hackable while rebooting or cpu down?...

[@mikefarino4368]

That intel afaik was barely produced and was not socketable it also uses double the power which is a major issue for always on PCs

[@TheExard3k]

EPYC security features should be able to encrypt all memory

[@fredEVOIX]

this might not be relevant to the customers of that motherboard but when I see HDDs I can't help but say that seagate ironwolf are noisy as hell I rma-ed several and am running only HGST drives (now western digital) you can easily know which ones come from ex-Hitachi in their product name for ex: WUH721818ALE6L4 the UH part is a remnant of HGST telling you where they come from, I've got several of them from the transition era that have the WD stickers but diskinfo reports them has "HUH" aka HGST that one I mentioned is a 18Tb I'm running I barely hear it and it has 27 siblings lol

[@TheExard3k]

You should try Toshiba MG08/09. Access noise is timewarp to the 90s :)

[@stuartlunsford7556]

Kinda weird to not have SAS, I guess you can use PCIe, but...the ports are there...

[@TheExard3k]

This board has it's focus on lots of pcie slots. AsRock Rack has other boards with more slimSAS connectors which gets you either 4x SATA or 1x NVMe per port.

[@darkphotographer]

well asrock rack board are not available in my country greece , only normal consumer asrock well it sucks ,,

[@TheExard3k]

I have good availability here in Germany. Being in the EU, you should be able to order from other european countries. I sometimes order from France or Sweden for very special and niche stuff.

[@darkphotographer]

@@TheExard3k greece , no , i guess wee are the third word country of eu , when in 2022 the maximum internet speed whee have 100mps , and in lot of place is 24 well 3-4mps

[@TheExard3k]

@@darkphotographer I had 16Mbps until 2 years ago when my town finally got fiber. Took the German government 15 years to push hard for proper internet. I know how troubling this can be. Greetings to Greece!

[@eduncan911]

If you want a partner in stress testing, say, "last gen" stuff, I'm starring at my two builds currently under stress testing across the following: - 22x 10TB HGST HUH SAS3 - 4x Samsung PM1725A HHHL 3.2TB - 3x Intel Optane 900P 480G - 40Gbps Fiber to everything Split between an AsRock Rack EPYCD8-2T w/7551 and AsRock Rack X399D8U ThreadRipper server board w/2950X. It's all I could afford over the years... But, I'm more than happy to test, as I am currently in the middle of the build and stress testing the drives.

[@mirrorking2]

So they removed the thunderbolt header from the earlier versions of this board, thats interesting! source: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h2qYg5-OnZ51hqM

[@rlbk3649]

esxi ?

[@TheSleepyCraftsman]

🖖

[@MIK33EY]

Good thing EPYC is still DDR4 cause 2TB of DDR5 would require a second mortgage on the home 😂

[@TheExard3k]

you can always opt-in for a dual socket board and 32 DIMM slots if you feel like buying lots of memory. CPUs are cheap compared to fully kitting out server memory :)

[@jonscot8393]

Went off Asrock ever sincere a viewer at a trade show picked one up and there was an audibly Crack in the PCB. Read that ASUS uses a much thicker PCB , build on a solid foundation and never looked back. s#$% ⚡ lightning took out the power just as I hit SAVE ... luckily I'm on a notebook and MOB tethered. Lmao 👹

[@pedro_8240]

There is so much cool stuff that can be done with server/enterprise stuff, it's really unfortunate that you guys don't get much love from the manufacturers like Linus. So, why not do a collaboration with Linux to exploit him to use his contacts in order to make some really cool stuff?

[@morosis82]

Was hoping they'd get together for the million dollar storage system. Maybe it will still be a thing, I don't think we've seen the end of that yet.

[@SoWhat07]

How to flash bios without cpu? I want to see this. If can not show as. Then just admit that.

[@Level1Techs]

Works fine via ipmi. Plug motherboard in. Give standby power. Ipmi gets ip. Go to web page. Go to firmware section. Upload bios. Done It's more steps than bios flashback on a desktop board but it does work fine.

[@SoWhat07]

@@Level1Techs what if current mainboard firmware is old and not support lattes cpus. Then you do not have old cpu. Only new cpu which is supported by the latte's new firmware. This mean mainboard ipmi work without cpu in the socket?

[@Level1Techs]

Ipmi works without CPU in socket yes.

[@dvnamis_actual]

audienceParticipation++;

[@SuperPimpland]

:)

[@TechySpeaking]

first

[@Cpgeekorg]

my now couple year old 5950x has 16 zen3 cores that extremely consistently see 4.4ghz full-time undermost workloads I throw at it. Why are these 8 core epyc parts so SLOW!? (Especially for the money, and especially for the power consumption)? Also, where's all the i/o on the consumer parts? if I want any more than a couple m.2's, a high end gpu, and maybe a video capture card, there simply aren't enough pcie lanes on modern consumer machine... Where are the torches and pitchforks!? seriously though... Threadripper has been a generation or two behind every time they do a release since like the 2000 series... why Doesn't AMD release a processor architecture at (mostly) the same time (or at least within a few months of each other?) I'm really annoyed that I couldn't buy a "5960x" like you could in previous threadripper generations that have most of the benefits of ryzen but with a reasonable number of pcie lanes, support for quad channel memory, actual ecc support, etc... it's so frustrating when I just want to build a workstation with decent i/o... when zen3 released my choices were a (still expensive) 24 core (then) 2 year old zen2 based threadripper (3960x) with decent i/o but comparatively CRAP ipc and clock speed (3.8ghz!?) OR an actually really nice comparatively 16 core zen3 cpu with way better ipc that does 4.4ghz under most workloads pretty much full-time that's limited to 24 lanes of pcie, dual channel memory and except in very specific scenarios, not really ecc support due to motherboard support, where only the most bougie expensive boards have 10g ethernet even... very frustrating times.

[@mypeeps1965]

I would NOT trust Asrock with anything I truly cared about!

[@vrhb5491]

esxi?