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0:00 Intro
1:01 Why do I have this?
1:15 Let’s take a look at this ASRock Rack server
6:09 What’s it like to actually use?
6:28 Look at all these drives!!!
7:45 I’ve been trolled…
8:07 PCIe Hotplug is cool
9:16 What am I actually going to do with this?
9:32 Power usage and performance
11:30 Conclusion



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33 Comments

  1. I am curious about your transfer speed with your 100Gb switch
    If I transfer to a PCIe 5.0 M.2 NVMe (T700) on my Asus S14NA-U12 / Epyc 8024P I get almost 5 GByte/s now.
    Looks like the CRS504-4XQ-IN is much better than we have thought?
    Maybe we all have underestimated the "limited" write / read speed of the drives used?

  2. That ASRock is a beast. And here I thought my CISCO UCS C240 M4 with dual Xeon processors and a dozen 10Tb SAS drives was overkill for a home server. I was originally going to use it as a PLEX server, but sobered up and am using a Lenovo M920S with 6Tb instead.

  3. You COULD always just drop in a SAS card and then move your HDDs to a JBOD shelf, and then virtualise TrueNAS (Core or Scale, it doesn't really matter), and pass the SAS controller over to said TrueNAS VM, and then let it deal with the storage that way.

    Right now, I have my Proxmox server that's also pulling double duty by also being the NAS OS as well, that way, I can have direct VM <-> host communication via virtio-fs, bypassing the network stack completely.

    For LXCs, it's even better because I can just add it as a mount point and it accesses it via lxcfs.

  4. That Geekbench score is almost the same as my 32 core systems (2143/20462).
    For some reason ASRock dont make fixed firmware publically available – my Milan ASRock 1U servers all needed updated firmware that wasnt on their support site.

  5. I didn't even know ASRock made a server, but this is honestly cool. I wouldn't know what to do with that much power lol. I'm still running my home lab on some old R410's and R710's. Crazy to see how powerful yet small servers now days are getting. Loved the video!

  6. I worked with a company that replaced a rack of machines with 3-4 servers with specs similar to this one, the compute density is insane with Genoa/Bergamo for the power use. I'm still happy with Rome for homelab use but depending on pricing second hand in a few years Genoa might be my future proxmox server.

  7. I just wished asrock supported their systems for more than 1-2yrs. I have a 7yr old supermicro motherboard, just got a bios and bmc update recently. My asrock rack board never got an update after year one. ASRock like CVEs and micro code are overrated.

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