Feedback/Suggestions for my custom Workstation

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by instant-automation, May 4, 2012.

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    Im the CTO for a tech company and Im building my own personal workstation. The company is covering the cost so the cost of the parts is NOT an issue.. Im wanting the BEST of the best the config I have started.

    Below is my parts list...

    The chassis is rather larger (weighing in at just over 100lbs), it has 10 hot-swappable 3.5" Hard drive Bays which I will use caddies to put 2 SSDs into each 3.5" bay and I will also use a caddy for the 3 optical bays to hold 2 additional SSDs each) for a total of 26 SSDs in a raid 0 for the read/write performance. I plan to use a PCI Flash Hard Drive for the Operating system and the Raid 0 for programs, ect. I will also have a separate 4U JBOD box with 45 3TB Hard drives for a total of 135TBs of file storage. The file storage will be backed up using a custom setup using GoodSync.

    Hard ware experts/parts experts.. please review my config below and provide feedback as you see fit.. I realize I may have conflicts below and that is my point of asking for help on this.. I want everything to fit together before even thinking of signing off on the parts list.

    If you need to reference links for the parts, I have live links on this domain ... " turk work station DOT com "

    Parts List for ACE "SkyNET" TURK WorkStation 2012

    Estimate Cost: > $110kComputer Enclosures: Clean-Aire Computer Enclosures ~~$2000

    Chassis:
    [1] SuperChassis 850P4 $350 (paid for already)
    Power Supply:
    [3] Enermax Maxrevo Series 1350W ATX12V / EPS12V v2.92, v2.8 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80+ Gold Certified Full Modular $957
    Heat Sync:
    [4] Phanteks PH-TC14PE 140mm UFB (Updraft Floating Balance) CPU Cooler $89/$356
    Air Conditioning Unit:
    [1] TrippLite SRCOOL12K Portable Air Conditioning Unit - 12,000 BTU / 3.4 kW, 120V AC 60Hz $639.99
    RAID Controller:
    [1] Adaptec RAID 6805 2270100-R 6Gb/s SATA/SAS 8 internal ports w/ 512MB cache memory Controller Card $549
    Processor:
    [4] Sixteen-Core AMD Opteronâ„¢ Model 6282 SE - 2.6GHz 32MB Cache (140W TDP) $1037ea/$4148
    Motherboard:
    [1] Supermicro H8QG6+-F (SLOTS) - SWTX - AMD SR5690+SR5670 Chipset - LSI SAS2 Controller $1129
    PCI Express Expansion:
    [1] Sixteen Slot PCI Express Expansion System $4500
    Memory:
    [32] 16GB PC3-8500 1066MHz DDR3 ECC Registered DIMM $14,313.26
    Memory Heat Spreader:
    [8] Corsair Airflow Fan For Up To 6 Modules $25/$200
    Memory Heat Spreader Monitor:
    [4] Corsair CMXAFPRO AirFlow PRO LED Memory Activity Monitor $49.99/$392
    Hard Drive (for OS)
    [1] OCZ Technology Revo Drive 3 X 2 Max IOPS PCI-E Full Height 240 GB SSD - RVD3MIX2-FHPX4-240G $897
    Hard Drives (for programs)
    [26] OCZ Vertex 4 VTX4-25SAT3-512G 2.5" 512GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) $649/$16,874
    4U JOBOD NAS (for storage)
    [1] Stratum S4045S Starting out with 3TB: $2,484.00 | Full capsity of 135TB: $22,680.00
    Large Capacity Hard Drives (for NAS)
    [45] Seagate Constellation ES.2 ST33000651SS 3TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SAS 6Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive $429/$19305

    4U Cabinet Rack
    [1] Gizmac Accessories XrackPro2 Rackmount Noise Reduction Enclosure Cabinet Rack - 4U $556.63
    5.25" Bay Adapter
    [3] 2.5 Inch HDD SSD to 5.25Inch Bay Adapter Brackets HD-BR25SS $21.69/$43.38
    3.5" HDD Converter
    [10] Thermaltake AC0014 3.5" HDD Converter for 2.5" SATA & SSD Hard Drives $9.99/$99.90
    External Disk Drive:
    [1] Buffalo BR3D-12U3 MediaStation External 12x Blu-Ray Burner - BD-R 12x, BD-RE 2x, DVD±R 16x, DVD+RW 8x, DVD-RW 6x, DVD-RAM 5x, CD-R 40x, CD-RW 24x, USB 3.0, Tray [B]$334.99 [/B]​
    [B]Quadro Video Card:[/B][INDENT][1] PNY NVIDIA Quadro 6000 6.0GB GDDR5 (1xDVI-DL, 2xDP, 1xST) [B]$3,998[/B][/INDENT]
    [B][B]Telsa Video Card:[/B][INDENT][1] NVIDIA 900-21030-0020-100 Tesla C2075 Workstation Card - 6GB, GDDR5, PCI-Express 2.0 (x16), 1x Dual-Link DVI-I, 1.03 Tflops, Dual-Slot [B]$2,500 [/B][/INDENT]
    [B][B]Sound Card:[/B][INDENT][2] HT | OMEGA CLARO Plus+ 7.1 Channels 24-bit 192KHz (PCI Express) [B]$299.98[/B][/INDENT]
    [B][B]OS:[/B][INDENT]Microsoft Windows Server 7/8 ? [B]$1800[/B][/INDENT]
    [B][B]Thermal Compound:[/B][INDENT]Arctic Silver® 5 [/INDENT]
    [B]Remote Thin Client:[/B][INDENT][1] Stealth Machines 2500 Series [B]$7113 (custom laptop)[/B][/INDENT]
    [B][B]Router:[/B][INDENT][1] ???? NETGEAR WNDR4500-100NAS N900 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n [/INDENT]
    [B]Network:[/B]

    [/B][/B][INDENT][B][B][B][B][B][B][B][B][B][B][B][B][B][B][B][B][B][B][B][B][B][B][B][B][B]100 Gigabit Ethernet Network [/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/B][/INDENT]
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