You don't need the beefier CPU, it gains you nothing unless you already have it or it's free. 9.3 will not be an issue for these AMD CPUs.
Can you give more info which amd cpu would be a possible problem?
You don't need the beefier CPU, it gains you nothing unless you already have it or it's free. 9.3 will not be an issue for these AMD CPUs.
The only AMD CPUs I could recommend are the FX-4300 and up, no APU CPUs. I'm not saying other CPUs wouldn't be fine but I can only tell you what I know does work at this time. To be honest, I took a gamble when I purchased my FX-4300 because at the time I hadn't heard of anyone using it but I did hear of some APU complaints, but now I can say several people have followed my footsteps and there hasn't been a single complaint that I am aware of.
Keep in mind that you get what you pay for and it's not the CPU that kills you, it's the motherboard. I wish I had a MB with IPMI (if you don't know what that is, Google it).
When it comes to costs, no matter how you slice it, odds are you will spend more money on the hard drives than the rest of your system combined, well unless you only have a few hard drives.
FYI, I have booted my AMD system once from 9.3 Beta without my hard drives attached and it seemed fine. I'll do it again in a few weeks and I'll have a hard drive installed and SSD as the boot device to see how it runs for testing purposes of course. Once 9.3 Release comes out, I'll upgrade my system for real.
This is putting me off of trying it on my Microservers.......I think there would be a lot FreeNAS users upset if it had issues on these :S
This is putting me off of trying it on my Microservers.......I think there would be a lot FreeNAS users upset if it had issues on these :S
I will be completely lost if it doesn't work on my N54L.
I'm waiting for 9.3 to be quite stable before upgrading, I need to see some real world benefit over 9.2.1..6 , as it stands mine works close to perfectly.
I have a real-world benefit for you.. there's a vulnerability in Samba in every version prior to 9.2.1.7. There's a ZFS memory leak in all versions prior to 9.2.1.9. ;)
of course but if you follow the software closely and there's some huge breakthrough like 10% speed boost in any area, then of course you'd likely remember it :)
anyhow, i don't intend to even get it at release, I'm a bit concerned about the auto update feature one day hosing the entire install due to a bad update. stranger things have hapenned.
I have 9.3 Beta running on two Microservers, an N34L and an N40L with no issues.This is putting me off of trying it on my Microservers.......I think there would be a lot FreeNAS users upset if it had issues on these :S
Why would 10 be a big issue? Is this something to do with changes to FreeBSD itself?