LSI 9300 16-disk controller. I've found out my intended hand-me-down motherboard doesn't support dual 3090 for my home LLM running 48GB models, so shopping around eBay and Craigslist for something that takes my 5950x... and two 3090... and a PCIE 4x storage controller. May just need two servers.
My fucking new PC case cannot fit my 4090 alongside my 3090 so I'm just going to have to buy a second 3090 and host both in a server. If I can re-use my SuperMicro with 13 bays is yet to be seen...
I ran into similar issues upgrading my nas from a supermicro 36-bay dual sandy bridge to a single consumer chip-based board. PCIE lanes are a lot more sparse on ryzen than eypc, but my wallet isn't enterprise-grade anymore
Ah. Was just curious. I've got a little homelab running proxmox and have unraid running on that in a VM. No plans for any LLMs though. Just mostly simple stuff.
for nit pickers this is a joke. I should have said a 12way mirror not RAIDZ, and while I see the top right drive is a 12tb, the other stacks are lower capacity drives. SSD is prob a 2tb
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PCIe-Slots
3x PCIe 4.0 x16 (1x x16, 1x x8, 1x x4)
Cards would run in x8/x8 via CPU, the controller at x4 via PCH.
Unless the GPUs are WC'ed, they're too big to fit though.
gratuitous 90s floppy disk icon included for fun 🤣
would still need a backup though :-(
/s in case it's not obvious
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