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finally here sweet my 24 PCIe SSD for mining storage server come on Calvin if you haven't seen nerd sports yet check it out all the episodes are available now for free over at youtube.com slash channel super fun but before we begin we are going to need some supplies first a bare-bones server from Super Micro the SSG tool to aid our and our 48 in I guess we'll just roll it there quad 10 gigabit network card 64 gigs of ram dual $26.99 3 422 core cpu time for boring inventory reconciliation oh I cut that in the wrong field granted I was scanning the wrong barcodes and time for fun again everybody on board the insane train what better place to build this new machine and our shiny new beer all set all I'll need is a screwdriver and maybe a table time for my favorite activity sucking drive oh this is going to take a while one key for nvme PCIe SSD each braided at a theoretical up to 250 with another zero twenty-five hundred megabytes per second reads and twelve hundred megabytes per second right and we are going to take all these bad boys and we're going to put them in a gigantic raid array Oh cut but how on earth do you run n D and E drives in race the answer is this very special bare-bones machine from Super Micro in fact this box can handle not just 24 but 48 and D&E drives giving us the capacity to without changing the model of drives that we're using have up to about 50 terabytes of solid-state storage in a single box and did I even mention that it's all in a 2-u form factor now that we've got everything we need for assembly it's time to open the sucker up peel off the oh so satisfying protective plastic and take a closer look at the back our expansion slots a 1000 watt 80-plus titanium power supply with an extra in case the first one dies and a couple regular SATA 2 and a half inch drive bays because you know you're a badass when all of your drives don't fit in the front of your case back at the front you've got 24 nvme slots but this machine supports 48 where do the other 24 go ah that right there is the secret of super micros simply double enclosures a whole additional Bank but how do you feed 48 PCI Express based drives here's where the magic happens one of the three expansion slots that runs off of the sec and CPU is occupied by PCIe x16 quad u dot two cards and there are four native ports that use a different connector on the motherboard itself that run off the first CPU then both of these go to back planes behind the banks of drives since we're in here this seems like a good time to show how the quad 10 gigabit network card that we showed before goes in this can be upgraded in the future though I don't see myself needing anything like that for a while and we can throw in our 22 core CPUs and our relatively pedestrian 64 gigs of DDR 4 Ram I think I'll have to steal some memory from the server this is replacing and that's pretty much it for assembly time to install the drives oh there go all the drives who didn't see that one coming finally done why is every single one of these attached with four screws anyway let's take it over to the test bench so I have all the SSDs plugged into this card right now which means a theoretical 16 gigabytes per second of total bandwidth using 16 X PCIe gen3 qua you'll find out how that theoretically translates into the real world oh ok get some network connections here get some aw yeah VGA you know what performance and it has VGA connectivity got this all set up you think I plug in servers here every once in a while right all right let's press the button and listen for the sweet sound of perform that's not bad for to you so fast forward half an hour we have got everything set up so disk management we have created a raid zero you go to Device Manager this dries oh look at them all obviously we would never run a raid zero I am still looking into what will be the best way to configure them all with a good balance of performance and redundancy but this video is all about taking it to the extremes so we're going to run a dough with a cube depth of ten on our z drive here and find out just how fast it can go whoa now we're talking that's like 2,800 Meg's per second right like play-by-play Wow oh it's over 9000 we did it we cracked ten gigabytes per second right feeds at 512 K Wow all the theoretical 16 or 16 or so look at that over 11 gigabytes per second right over one gigabyte per second reads for 8 Meg's I can't imagine it getting much higher than that so there you have it folks past four to eight megabytes we're looking at read and write speeds in the neighborhood of 10 gigabytes per second with our highest peak at around twelve point seven coming close to the theoretical maximum of our PCI Express x16 link here pretty freakin bananas if you ask me and we should be able to easily even once we work from parity or redundancy into the equation saturate our four ten gigabit network can should at the back here once we get all those bonded together oh hey it's another blue 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