Tomasz Elendt
Dabbler
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Hi,
this is my first post here and I hope I picked the right forum :)
I plan to build small (Mini-ITX form factor, up to 4-6 HDDs), quiet and low-power NAS for my home needs. I thought about going for Atom C2750 which AFAIK comes with 2 boards at the moment:
Supermicro is still cheaper (at least here in Germany). The only downside I see is that Supermicro uses SODIMMs while ASRock uses full size DIMMs. ASRock on the other hand has no internal USB header (that could be used for a boot drive) and no USB 3.0.
Another (bonus) question is about virtualization. I know it's not recommended to run FreeNAS as VM (especially in this case, since Avotons don't support VT-d), but with this number of cores (and the number of RAM that could be installed on these boards) it seems like a waste to run only NAS software there. The question is: can FreeNAS be a host system for some hypervisor (type 2)? I don't need much for these VMs, just a slice of CPU/RAM, NFS mount and possibility of running OS of my choice. If it's possible - what are the available options? (Sorry for lame question, I'm new to BSD).
this is my first post here and I hope I picked the right forum :)
I plan to build small (Mini-ITX form factor, up to 4-6 HDDs), quiet and low-power NAS for my home needs. I thought about going for Atom C2750 which AFAIK comes with 2 boards at the moment:
- Supermicro A1SAi-2750F
- ASRock C2750D4I
Supermicro is still cheaper (at least here in Germany). The only downside I see is that Supermicro uses SODIMMs while ASRock uses full size DIMMs. ASRock on the other hand has no internal USB header (that could be used for a boot drive) and no USB 3.0.
Another (bonus) question is about virtualization. I know it's not recommended to run FreeNAS as VM (especially in this case, since Avotons don't support VT-d), but with this number of cores (and the number of RAM that could be installed on these boards) it seems like a waste to run only NAS software there. The question is: can FreeNAS be a host system for some hypervisor (type 2)? I don't need much for these VMs, just a slice of CPU/RAM, NFS mount and possibility of running OS of my choice. If it's possible - what are the available options? (Sorry for lame question, I'm new to BSD).