Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 18:21:33 -0800 From: Ravi Pokala <rpokala@freebsd.org> To: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org>, "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Request for Recommendations: media / transcode server Message-ID: <9B3E7B34-E961-4950-9467-5D1EA5DDAFD6@panasas.com> In-Reply-To: <09D335B0-6323-4626-ABC1-3163C43FA966@tcbug.org> References: <DD067FC6-84A5-4684-8A1F-E72D4369959C@panasas.com> <09D335B0-6323-4626-ABC1-3163C43FA966@tcbug.org>
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-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org>
Date: 2019-11-14, Thursday at 03:35
To: Ravi Pokala <rpokala@freebsd.org>
Cc: "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Request for Recommendations: media / transcode server
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> On Nov 14, 2019, at 12:40 AM, Ravi Pokala <rpokala@freebsd.org> wrote=
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The bad news.
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No one is making server class boards off the current gen SoC based x86 =
stuff like they did with the atom c2000 based stuff.
I ended up with my current board because we were evaluating C2000 at work, =
and we used this board to do it. It worked well at the office, so I picked o=
ne up for myself.
(As luck would have it, we started using C2000 late enough that the errata =
had already been discovered and fixed by the time we started shipping, so ou=
r products don't have this problem.)
I had planned to move forward to one of the follow-on SoCs, but I wasn't ab=
le to find any the last I checked.
But! I just checked ark.intel.com for Denverton (the codename of the follow=
-on SoC), and found quite a few of them; it looks like they're branded as "C=
3000".
And I was able to find quite a few "C3000"s at Supermicro:
https://www.supermicro.com/en/search?Search=3DC3000
I'll look more closely tonight, but those seem to be in the right ballpark =
at least.
If you look for J4000/J5000 based boards all there is are media server =
boards with no BMC, 1 SODIMM slot, two SATA ports, and a single PCI-e slot.=20
"Media server" and "two SATA ports"... <facepalm>
You=E2=80=99ll need to step up to something like a SM X11SPA which is a lot o=
f board to get what you want.
Yeah, I don't need a full-blown Xeon for this. Heck, I don't even want some=
thing with a *socket* for this! :-)
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Supposedly the ARM ecosystem was going to fill that void (or pushed x86=
out depending on who you ask) but I don=E2=80=99t really know if that happened.=20
Indeed. Alas, neither the arm64 hardware nor our arm64 support seems to be =
quite there yet. :-(
Thanks!
Ravi (rpokala@)
Thanks,
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Josh Paetzel
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