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Hi all.
I have had FreeNAS setup for over 2 years now and love it! I want to upgrade some of the cost saving measures I used to just trial the NAS at the start.
My current specs are
I5-2400
16gb Non ECC
Some ECS board with Realtek Ethernet thumbs down!
Mellanox Connect-X2 10gbe card
And 2 3tb WD Blues (mirror) with a 120gb Samsung 840 SSD (standalone) for a jail/VM drive.
Have been running this setup for a while (used to run an i3-4130 and 8gb of ram but that went into pfSense router) but want to upgrade mainly for ECC since I'm adding more HDDs soon (WD Reds).
Currently running 1 Ubuntu Server VM for Plex and the transmission plugin. I don't plan to add any vm's soon but would like to be able to add more in the future mainly Linux VMs.
I am looking at i3's since they have ECC compatibility but am worried that 2 cores will not be enough for the Plex VM. (I currently have 2 of the 4 cores for the Plex VM.)
Do you think that an i3 will be fine for my application? And how important is ECC for a small setup like mine? 4 to 5 drives total.
I have looked at Xeon's but in Australia older ones so v5,v4 E3s are hard to find so the only way is to get a v6 E3 which uses DDR4. However DDR4 16gb ECC is a lot more pricey than DDR3 ECC so I was looking at older i3s for that reason.
Any help is appreciated!
Thanks.
I have had FreeNAS setup for over 2 years now and love it! I want to upgrade some of the cost saving measures I used to just trial the NAS at the start.
My current specs are
I5-2400
16gb Non ECC
Some ECS board with Realtek Ethernet thumbs down!
Mellanox Connect-X2 10gbe card
And 2 3tb WD Blues (mirror) with a 120gb Samsung 840 SSD (standalone) for a jail/VM drive.
Have been running this setup for a while (used to run an i3-4130 and 8gb of ram but that went into pfSense router) but want to upgrade mainly for ECC since I'm adding more HDDs soon (WD Reds).
Currently running 1 Ubuntu Server VM for Plex and the transmission plugin. I don't plan to add any vm's soon but would like to be able to add more in the future mainly Linux VMs.
I am looking at i3's since they have ECC compatibility but am worried that 2 cores will not be enough for the Plex VM. (I currently have 2 of the 4 cores for the Plex VM.)
Do you think that an i3 will be fine for my application? And how important is ECC for a small setup like mine? 4 to 5 drives total.
I have looked at Xeon's but in Australia older ones so v5,v4 E3s are hard to find so the only way is to get a v6 E3 which uses DDR4. However DDR4 16gb ECC is a lot more pricey than DDR3 ECC so I was looking at older i3s for that reason.
Any help is appreciated!
Thanks.
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