hey there

I am designing a EATX motherboard holder to install EATX mobox vertically using rack railes (placed horizontally) inside an IKEA PLATSA (60x55x40mm). The holder will also need to accomodate some space to install a pci express card vertically using a riser with a cable to keep everything compact as I want to stay within a 1U to be able to chuck in up to 12 mobos inside the IKEA PLATSA.

I will use some chinese LGA 2011-3 mobos, 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 CPUs, 128GB of ram, 10gbit SFP+, 1 128GB nvme to build a cluster to run my homelab (the actual storage will be over the network using infiniband over a 20gbit uplink, I really have very minimal space requirements, it's more about scaling up horizontally and see what I can achieve for my OSS project).
 

Phuncz

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Welcome to the forum ! Seems like an awesome project :)

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daniele_dll

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Well, it's not an SFF in the strict sense of the word but I would still consider it a small form factor as my goal is to build something super compact with all the HW inside :D Of course, if it's not ok, sorry for the post!