Hello.
Does someone hosting nodes on top of E5-2680
With original motherboards or chines?
someone tried C612 Nas Motherboard DIY Kit E5 2680/2673/2686/2697A V4 CPU 32/64/96/128GB DDR4 Virtual Machine Routers 4x2.5GE 10xSATA Raid - AliExpress
I have one on top of machenist and jingsha working 24/7 like perfectly.
But this one havent used, it looks small, but like all what needed.
I know CPU support windows 10 but not win 11 so interesting how long Storj will support win 10?
I think we would support Windows 10 as long as it’s supported by MS. But more important - as long, as it’s supported by Go: Go Wiki: Go for Microsoft Windows - The Go Programming Language
best tip i can give you is to learn linux admin, i was a windowze boy but for production servers nothing can compete with linux
I know you run multiple nodes on multiple servers and best you can do is give a try to truenas scale o proxmox, SMART alert capaibilties builtin with email alerts, hardware related admin and easy to manage multiple rigs into a sincle cluster view
Yes, linux will support old hardware a long time. I would recommend Proxmox for virtualization. Or just use bare matel machine and use docker there directly. Then you don’t have any losses through virtualisation.
I personally would use proxmox if you want to use it for other services too and Linux bare if it is only for storj
If we stay out of OS question, does someone tried/used this motherboard that i linked? or similar
For storj we want RAM and PCIE slots. Therefore I would go for a full sized server board. There is plenty of such boards on ebay (e.g. ASUS Z10PA-U8).
this motherboard you mentioned, is not even support NVME and i thing boot from nvme also.
on chanese one there is 10 sata ports and if add HBA with 16 ports it is more than enough.
2.5Gbit ports are also very good. PCIE supports all kind of obfuscations according to description.
This is 10 years old technology. TBH I would use it if I have it but not buying all new. In particular not for windows use.
even newes affortable CPU and motherboard dont have so many pcie lines, i have one i3-10100 with B560 dont work even near that good like e5-2680 platforms. When it usual work it is OK, but as there is big deletes, it turns to be not very accessible for some time. But CPUs not overloaded at this time, my theory it is because small amount of pcie.
An i3-10100 is overkill for Storj, and the number of PCIe lanes doesn’t matter unless you’re connecting multiple PCIe devices. Also, don’t underestimate the power usage of those old platforms. If you tune that i3 correctly, I’d expect you to achieve around 25 to 35 watts of idle power consumption. As for the problems you’re experiencing, I’m just going to blame it on you using Windows instead of Linux.
I have other i7-6700 and one hdd was all the time slow, it was turned to pciex1 with adapter.
turned out, when i I turned off anymore not necessary NVME on other slot, this hdd started to work OK, so lack of pcie lanes is real on desktop cpus.
I’ve run a node on a 6700K and never encountered any issues.
how much nodes do you run?
I have one ubuntu server with 6700K running 24 nodes (mainboard from old gaming pc, use what you have 
). No problems so far.
Ok thank you. I will think about it.
My “old gaming pc motherboard that runs nodes” is running i7-2600k…
6700 is not old, it’s bleeding edge 
I have several Chinese X99 motherboards running E5 Xeons. Found them to be great. Cheap, powerful, reliable, but yes old tech.
If your building storage machine, start with an old enterprise disk shelf/array and suitable hba catd, rather than buying motherboards with 10x sata. SATA designed for desktop use.
I like this idea: ensure the PC supports enough RAM to run all the nodes you may want… then slap in a cheap HBA with external ports. CPU is almost free these days… but I guess you’d also want to make sure it fits all the flash you want too. Doesn’t need to be fancy
i purchased a case like that 2 years ago but unfortunelly didnt work for me. I like the hdd cover for better air tunneling. The case i’ve had was for 24 hdd in two rows like yours, my version was very hot for hdd because they was more tight than yours
