6 TERABYTES of DDR4!?
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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628 words · ~3 min read
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Welcome to Tyenne. And while Lionus does the Holy episodes, so this is not
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one of them, I am checking out something pretty insane. It is the
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FT76B7922. And while the name is a mouthful, it definitely doesn't pull any
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punches performance-wise. If it's memory you're after, you can get 6 TB of DDR4
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memory modules up in the front of the case. If you need processing power, you
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can get four E7 8800 series Haswell based processors. If it's storage,
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there's eight slots up in the front for two and a half inch bays and naturally
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if you wanted NVMe, you could install them in the many PCIe slots on the back
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or in the two hot swap bays in the corner as well. Yes, that is hot
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swappable PCIe 8X slots, two of them in the back. So, when looking at this
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server up in the front, you have your eight 2 and 1/2 in base. You have your
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96 potential slots for RAM on the modules right behind that. Then you have
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four CPUs. Then you have your PCIe area
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and then four redundant 1200 W power
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supplies just in case you're worried about three of them failing at once.
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There's still one that'll hold you on. And all of those front 2 and 12 in bays
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are rated together on an LSI card in the back of the case, which does actually
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have a little bit of tie-in branding on it, which is kind of cool. But if stuff
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like crazy hot swappable storage is more your thing, we can move on to the
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GT62B B5539. Another naming mouthful, but it's
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fine. I'm going to do something kind of cool on camera right now, which is pull
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out one of their NVMe drives. So, this is the Intel P3700 NVMe drive. Just pull
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it out while we're running. The little green light goes off. I can take it, put
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it back in, click it in, wait for it,
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and while I'm talking, in a couple seconds, the green light will go back on. You can just do that. It's kind of
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cool. On the front, the yellow slots are for NVMe drives. The blue stop slots are
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for standard older two and a half inch drives like really fast SSDs that aren't
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NVMe or hard drives, whatever you want. In terms of processor, this thing is
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running a Xeon D1541. That's an SOC chip. It's an 8
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core chip. That means it it doesn't have like a a normal socket that you could
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drop and remove a processor from. It's actually soldered directly onto the
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board. But if you do want a slightly higherend model, you can get a 16 core
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model as well. And if you're still not satisfied with your hot swappable NVMe
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drives, you can add on the TN70J E3250,
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which has 12 3 and a half inch hard drive bays and can link into the guy
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above it, so you can expand your storage dramatically that way. So, that was
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pretty freaking cool. I think Linus has some more servers to drool after. We're
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going to go check out more stuff at Computex. Thanks to Tyenne for bringing
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us here and sponsoring us for Computex 2016. If you want to see the rest of our
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Computex content, be sure to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips. And if you're
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interested in the other stuff Tyenne might do, like all the boards and
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whatnot that are behind me, check out their website because they do a lot of cloud computing, HPC, all that kind of
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stuff as well.