Yeah.  It’s just incredible.  Not that many years ago, getting decent compute out of anything fanless was a MAJOR undertaking, and now it’s just another SKU.  Sure, with some limitations, but it’s no longer an odyssey like it used to be.

-Adam

From: Roundtable <roundtable-bounces@muug.ca> On Behalf Of Shawn Wallbridge
Sent: Friday, February 4, 2022 7:31 PM
To: Continuation of Round Table discussion <roundtable@muug.ca>
Subject: Re: [RndTbl] Holy fanless computing, batman...

Check out the SuperMicro M11SDV-8CT-LN4F

8 Core Epyc 3251 that is fanless.

Have them in my NAS and firewall at home :) 

shawn

On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 5:06 PM Adam Thompson <athompso@athompso.net> wrote:

SuperMicro’s A2SDi-H-TF :

• 2.2GHz Denverton (Atom C3758) CPU architecture, 8 cores w/16MB each but not superscalar, no Turbo, and no HT.  Still plenty fast enough for most applications.
• Up to 256GB of ECC RAM.
• Dual 10G onboard.
• 13 x SATA ports (including 1xSuperDOM), 8 of them delivered via 2x Mini-SAS HD ports
• 1 x PCI-E x4
• 1 x M.2
• 1 x internal USB 3.1 (type A) port
• IPMI and remote mgmt. subsystem onboard

And although there are 4 fan headers, this is a Mini-ITX (!) board that runs a cool 25W (i.e. fanless!!!).

There’s an entire series of them this year from SuperMicro, all having slightly different configurations.

I know I’m getting old, but this is as incredible to me as my current equipment would have been to 10- or 20-years-ago me.

-Adam

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