 Tom here from Orange Systems and I have about 39 inches, 39 inches deep, 1U super micro super server here, super storage I should say. There's a lot of storage under this part but don't worry we don't have to take this lid off to access it. This is a unique design because they crammed a lot of drives in a 1U server by having the whole front slide apart. So it actually is 39 and then it gets even longer when it slides apart but to be able to put hot swap drives in like that it's pretty slick where you go over how that works and how the configuration comes apart. I already have the lid off so we're going to talk about some of the parts and processors inside of it, run around the back talk about what it comes with stock and it's a really slick server. I've been testing it for a little while and I was going to try to lift it and I'm like I'm afraid I'm going to drop it and this was sent to me for review. I do have to return it and even if it was mine or not mine I don't want to drop this thing because it has a lot of drives in it so it's really really awkward to do this. We're just going to keep it completely flat for this review. Before we dive into that let's first, if you'd like to learn more about me and my company head over to LawrenceSystems.com. If you'd like to hire a short project there's a hires button right at the top. If you'd like to help keep this channel sponsor free and thank you to everyone who already has there is a join button here for YouTube and a Patreon page. Your support is greatly appreciated. If you're looking for deals or discounts on products and services we offer on this channel check out the affiliate links down below. They're in the description of all of our videos including a link to our shirt store. We have a wide variety of shirts that we sell and new designs come out well randomly so check back frequently. And finally our forums, forums.lauranceystems.com is where you can have a more in-depth discussion about this video and other tech topics you've seen on this channel. Now back to our content. Okay you want to start here at the SuperMicro website where you can get the exact model and of course all these will be linked below. This is the SuperStorage 6019p ACR12L Plus. Kind of a mouthful model number but that plus on the end is important and there is a review I will leave to over at storagereview.com. I have no affiliation with them other than they have a nice write up on this and I thought I'd share it with you. And they note the differences between the plus and the non-plus model right here and basically you get the higher wattage power supply and some extra PCIe slots with the plus model and some LEDs in the front. So like I said I'll leave these in the links below. Now you can kind of see they're hinting at how it slides out so we'll cover the slide out mechanism. I'm not going to go every painstaking detail of every option on here but I'll leave these specs right here so you can read them because well they are what they are so you can go through those. Now let's go ahead and jump to the overhead so we can kind of take a look at the hardware to a closer look. Alright we'll start with the fans. The fans are all just on this side right here and the fans are not really mounted with any type of clips. They just set in and you can see the wire that you just disconnect. They're standard fans, easy to replace, a little four pin connector right here and they're dual wires on each one of these because there's dual fans in here in case one fails. So a pretty straightforward simple design. They shipped this with a 192 gigs RAM and two Xeon Gold processors in there. And here is the controller. Now we have a couple controllers in here. This is the one that's controlling all the drives that are under here. We'll get to those next. And then here is the onboard controller for the four NVMe's that you're going to see in the front. Then we have a couple of PCIe slots over here and then nested right here. We have a nice little Samsung NVMe. Also two 10 gig network interfaces as well. So really nice. You got the dual 10 gigs built in on board, plenty of room for extra because when you start talking about putting the four NVMe's that are in the front along with this one, which is currently set to the boot ride with TrueNAS on it. That's why I've been testing with it thus far. It's a lot of storage in here and a tight compact space and two 10 gigs helps get you access to that storage. We're still not enough because we're going to need the PCIe over here to really take advantage of that storage. So for the scope of the review that I'm going to be doing, we're only going to be using the 10 gigs. Now there's also in here two hot swap power supplies, 800 watt and they can be easily accessed without the lid coming off, of course, in case you need to service them while in production. Now the notable thing here is this and this is the cable that we're going to show when we slide out the drives and show the mechanism. We're going to jump into that next. Now you don't need to remove this cover to get to these drives. Matter of fact, the drives are made to all stay in here even though they clip and come out this way. This is a little release that comes on the front and you slide this whole tray out and this automatically extends. I thought this mechanism was really nice. It rides in a track. So it's really slick the way this goes through. Slides out because this means it's hot swappable. When this whole bay comes out of the front, we're going to give you another view of it here. All right, so I've gone ahead and put the lid back on it and I'm going to show you the same thing again and away we go. That's how it comes apart. It's actually really impressive that you get all these drives in here. You could have this in a really nice high density rack configuration with it only being one U. Now we're going to cover the heat on this as well because a lot of people commented that was their concern is what was the heat issue with this many drives on here. And so far after I ran it for several days and I'm going to be before we get to the part where we review the hardware and by logging in, I'm actually going to let this thing warm up overnight and finish the video tomorrow. But it's not been a problem. These drives actually have kept their cool very well. These fans pull enough air through to keep everything nice, cool and even under load. I mean, it's not cold, of course, but it's not overheating either. It's built and managed to be able to do this. Now, the other cool thing is the fact that this is all hot swap. Like I had said, so you can pull this out, swap out individual drives, but also how those drives swap out is really clever. So we lever out the two locks in the front. We slide it out. We grab the drive little tab right here and that's it. Drive comes out. Now, this still has a little more room to go, but I don't want to bump the camera, but we can get to all of the drives this way. So as you can see, well, up till we bump the camera comes all the way out. So now we have the drive. We can take it, swap it, change out the screws or whatever on the bottom, put it back in, and all this can be done live. All the servers still in the rack and still running. Close it and lock it back up. Now you may have noticed on the bottom here that we have the four MVMEs. Pretty easy. They're also hot swap and eject just like that. And away we go. We can take the MVMEs out and put them right back in. Now, the only thing I notice about the front here, we do have a couple USBs in the front and we have a super tiny power button turn this thing on and off, which is just really hard to get to there. A couple display and status lights on there. All right, so we'll take a quick look at the back. We have the two hot swap power supplies right here, a VGA, four USB3s, two 10 gig ports, the slots we need for hooking up our PCIe cards over here. And the one thing I'll comment on, and there's just no way around this problem when you have a 1U servers, when you do plug the network cable in, it's challenging if you have the little ears on it to try to get it back out. But they left you just enough room to make that happen. But that's it for the back, there's really not much on there. All right, now for the important part, we're going to fire this up. Let it warm up because I want to show you the health readings and everything in the system after it's been running a while, show you TrueNAS running on it and just cover the software just briefly a little bit so you kind of get an idea of the server. And of course, I'll let you know how loud it is. So I have the server fired up and I wanted to first show a closer look at the front of the server. There's that tiny little power button with a tiny little reset button. You have a network status indicator, the drive light blinks, and then kind of tiny to see. But you can see inside, they've really done a neat job of putting LEDs to show you which drives are in use and which drives are blinking. They're kind of hard to see until you zoom in this close. As for noise, and once again, this is under load. It hits around 66, 67. So not too loud, but typically servers do have a little bit of noise to them. It's not like these are designed to be sitting next to you in your office. They're designed to be in the server rack. All right, so we're logged into the management interface so we can see the server health system configurations if we need to. It's the same as Super Micro Ships to all their modern systems. And of course, it has remote control, which is nice, beautiful HTML5 for the IKVM. None of those stupid Java problems with all the options. I've covered this on Super Micro before. It's a welcome feature to see a HTML5 here. I just deal with too many old servers that have the old interface on there. But you get the virtual keyboard, ability to record macros, full screen mode, et cetera. So all the easy control features, so I can sit here in my nice office, not next to the server and be able to manage this even remotely over distance. Has the virtual media option, so you can set up CD-ROM or even old school floppy disk images if that's what works for you. Health event logs and sensor readings. Now, sensor readings I wanted to jump right to because this server is under load. Currently, it's running some Plex videos with some auto convert. So by running this, and it's running TrueNAS, it is being loaded up a bit. And actually, I'll drag a screen over here to show you all the processors and the little bit high load on the server. It's been doing this for a little while. I've just kept it going with a handful of other things, including Pharaonix running in another jail on this same server. I wanted to really make sure that it's got some stress on it so we can get real temperatures because idle temperatures aren't really meaningful. And here we go, it did manage to get so far. We've got it up to 66, putting this under load, transcoding a bunch of 4K video and down sampling it, along with a bunch of Pharaonix tests that I just kicked them all off in different jails and away we went. So it's being hammered and it's not come past 66 as high as I've seen it get. And actually, sometimes it drops back down. Now, that's CPU one, CPU two's at 57 right now and then it kind of goes down from there. So it's not too hot. I am also, and this is at 69, this is the 10 gig temperature. And it does manage to warm up and it's right now transferring. And go back over here to TrueNAS. I'm doing a large couple terabyte dump over to the pool right now. And I just wanted to make sure that's going as well. So I wanted to really, like I said, see if I could heat this thing up. And so far, it's held up really well. I mean, it is getting warm. The fans do rev up and that sound reading was from a revved up system, but nothing's critical, nothing's overheating. It does have the ability to alert you on that. It only shows an alert for the chassis intrusion detection. Well, that's because I had the case open. Now, another sensor reading it does have is for the NVMe SSDs. And they're also, because they're in the front of the case and obviously they're not as likely to get as hot, but they're sitting at about 33 degrees centigrade. So they're warm, but not too hot there. And there's part of the test that's being run as well is against these. So there's a lot of active data going back and forth on these because that's what I'm using with the Feronix testing to really hammer these. So I wanted to make sure, like I said, I warmed everything up a bit. Now, the last thing I'll talk about on the temperature is the drive temps. So this is just smart control filtered for temperature. So we'll just hit this real quick and you can see these as well. These are those 12 terabyte Exos drives. It does not display their temperature within the health. This is the smart control directly pulled from the drives and the airflow. You can see these are all nice and cool except for this one. It's just a little bit cooler than the other ones. I didn't look to determine position. I have a feeling these are the ones in the front and the ones in the back are the ones that are hitting like 31 versus 29. But once again, nothing critical in terms of temperature. Now, I did not spend a lot of time testing a lot of configs doing benchmarks because, well, that becomes a very broad topic and a little bit challenging to do and takes a lot of time. If there's a specific benchmark that you would like me to run, let me know in the comments or reach out to me on the forums. But I ran just a couple IO zone tests and dumped them right here. So I will go ahead and leave a link to this because there's a lot of details that go over and I express the configuration there. Also at the review they did over at storage review, they have a long list of benchmarks as well that they did with, I think this is the same server because Supermicro sends these out for demo. I have a feeling they got the same demo server, so this might be exact. The specs look the same and the drive configuration looks identical based on their review. So if you're looking for a little bit more information on it, that's not our place. And finally, people asked how much this costs. I don't know exactly and I have no affiliation with ThinkMater to tell you if they have the best or worst pricing on this particular product. But they do list the product on their site. So I spec'd it out, configured basically the same as this. There was only minor differences. They slightly different NVMe drives, but it comes out to 18,000 for this particular server configured. So I'll say that's really close in terms of pricing. There may be some variations and some details on there. And of course, I'll leave a link to this site so you can look through it yourself and spec one out. But I have no affiliation with them. I don't know if they are the best or worst to buy from. I just know when you do a search, they were the first one to come up. So they have good SEO position is what got them in this video. But it does represent this server pretty closely. But that's it for this review on this system. It's been fun to play with. I will be doing a few more tests on it. Let me know if there's some specific test that if I have time to do, I will complete on there. I'll reach out to me in the forums as the best place to describe that so we can have a better discussion, better than with the YouTube comments that are down below. It'll be a link to the forums where this is posted as well. All right, then, thanks. And thank you for making it to the end of the video. If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up. If you'd like to see more content from the channel, hit the Subscribe button and hit the bell icon if you'd like YouTube to notify you when new videos come out. 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