The Supermicro 1023US-TR4 is a 1U server designed for organizations looking for a high-end solution in environments that can benefit from dense compute power like virtualization and cloud computing. The 1024US-TR4 comes equipped with an H11DSU-iN motherboard, which features dual-socket support for AMD EPYC series processors and up to 8TB Registered ECC DDR4 3200MHz SDRAM via its 32 DIMM slots.
The EPYC 7002 CPUs are clearly a good choice for this server, as this performance-driven CPU is specifically designed for enterprise applications, virtualized and cloud computing environments, software-defined infrastructure, high-performance computing, and data analytic applications. The CPUs are also a significant upgrade from previous models, as we’re seeing them simply dominate performance benchmarks across many systems in our data center.
Storage-wise, the Supermicro 1023US-TR4 features four 3.5″ Hot-swap drive bays that can be outfitted with SATA, SAS, or NVMe. The combo of 3.5″ bays and NVMe is a bit curious, but Supermicro has a tendency to create interesting/flexible system builds. In this case, Supermicro is assuming users may want to combine some mix of high-speed flash and HDDs, or they simply offered it in a 3.5″ NVMe SSD configuration because they can. That’s good enough for us. They do offer a more dense 1U NVMe platform in the 1124US-TNRP, which offers a dozen 2.5″ NVMe bays. Both systems are part of Supermicro’s A+ Ultra family. Users can also add up to two M.2 SSDs for boot drives depending on PCIe riser configuration, in either SATA or NVMe variants.
Supermicro uses four Gigabit LAN ports via an Intel i350AM4 on board and features four expansion card slots via PCI-E x16 (two FH / 9.5″L) and PCI-E x8 (one LP, and one internal proprietary LP slot). Connectivity also includes an RJ45-dedicated IPMI LAN port, three USB 3.0 ports (one of which is Type A), and a VGA port. In addition, the 1023US-TR4 uses 1000W with PMBus in redundant PSUs to power the server.
Our build is comprised of an AMD EPYC 7742 CPU, 16 x 32GB of DDR4-3200 RAM (for a total of 512GB), four Micron 9200 NVMe SSDs (3.8TB).
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