Tomasz Elendt
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I'm trying to find a replacement for my A1SAi-2750F that died last week after 6 years of service.
So far I've ran it in a Mini-ITX enclosure with 4 hot-swappable drive bays (CFI A-7879 V2) as a typical storage/Plex server, but when I think about the needs I might have in the next 6-10 years this might include things like:
- more drives (I will probably like to extend my pool with another mirror(s) at some point)
- 10Gbe (switching rest of my networking gear to 10gb might take some time though)
- ability to run VMs with hardware pass-through
- all this would still need to fit into my closed, short-depth networking rack (so that my kids can't mess with it)
Speaking of the hardware pass-through - my main motivation for this is that at some point (when I have more 4k media / stream more content) I might want to plug some Nvidia card to handle transcoding (something that FreeBSD, according to my knowledge, still does not support).
Right now I'm thinking of going either with Supermicro A2SDi-H-TF (Atom C3758) or X10SDV-4C-7TP4F (Xeon D-1518).
Benefits of A2SDi-H-TF:
- a bit cheaper in where I live (Germany)
- a bit faster according to most of the benchmarks I've seen
- lower TDP (25W vs 35W of X10SDV-4C-7TP4F)
- can still fit into my old ITX case for the time being (until I upgrade to something bigger that fits more drives, a graphics card and can fit into my rack - at this point SilverStone CS381 seems to be the only viable option)
Benefits of X10SDV-4C-7TP4F:
- more LAN ports (2x 10G SFP+ and 2x 1G)
- more PCI-E (2 PCI-E 3.0 x8)
So X10SDV-4C-7TP4F seems to be a more future proof option to as it has more IO options. Still, my current case cannot accommodate Flex ATX board so I would need to upgrade it now if I decided to go with it.
Any obvious facts I missed in my analysis? What would you pick?
So far I've ran it in a Mini-ITX enclosure with 4 hot-swappable drive bays (CFI A-7879 V2) as a typical storage/Plex server, but when I think about the needs I might have in the next 6-10 years this might include things like:
- more drives (I will probably like to extend my pool with another mirror(s) at some point)
- 10Gbe (switching rest of my networking gear to 10gb might take some time though)
- ability to run VMs with hardware pass-through
- all this would still need to fit into my closed, short-depth networking rack (so that my kids can't mess with it)
Speaking of the hardware pass-through - my main motivation for this is that at some point (when I have more 4k media / stream more content) I might want to plug some Nvidia card to handle transcoding (something that FreeBSD, according to my knowledge, still does not support).
Right now I'm thinking of going either with Supermicro A2SDi-H-TF (Atom C3758) or X10SDV-4C-7TP4F (Xeon D-1518).
Benefits of A2SDi-H-TF:
- a bit cheaper in where I live (Germany)
- a bit faster according to most of the benchmarks I've seen
- lower TDP (25W vs 35W of X10SDV-4C-7TP4F)
- can still fit into my old ITX case for the time being (until I upgrade to something bigger that fits more drives, a graphics card and can fit into my rack - at this point SilverStone CS381 seems to be the only viable option)
Benefits of X10SDV-4C-7TP4F:
- more LAN ports (2x 10G SFP+ and 2x 1G)
- more PCI-E (2 PCI-E 3.0 x8)
So X10SDV-4C-7TP4F seems to be a more future proof option to as it has more IO options. Still, my current case cannot accommodate Flex ATX board so I would need to upgrade it now if I decided to go with it.
Any obvious facts I missed in my analysis? What would you pick?