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I'm building out a FreeNAS server for a home NAS and media server. Using it to store a media library, and PC backups. I am looking at the Intel Avoton C2750/C2550 platforms and the I3-4130. I'm looking to go as low power and quiet as possible while still being able to do some transcoding. Probably 2 streams max at one time. I plan to store the videos at relatively good quality aka 1080P/High Bit rates when warranted.
It will be a pretty standard build
*Fractal Node 304
*Seasonic 360Watt
*SuperMicro or ASrock ECC board
*16GB (2 x 8GB) 1600/1333 DDR3 ECC memory
* 4, 3TB or 4 TB, WD Red Drives
I've done a lot of searching but haven't a direct comparison except for at http://www.techspot.com/review/826-silverstone-ds380-nas/page6.html . Idle at 58Watts, way above the other mainstream processors seems to be some sort of error.
It seems like the multicore performance of the C2750 and the I3 is similar. The Haswell Lines are supposed to be very efficient at idle. If the power differential for 90% of it's operation is small, I'd probably go I3. The C2550 is tempting mostly from a cost perspective.
Question 1: Does anyone have any notion on the power savings, if there is any, between the Avoton and I3 line at idle? Particularly at idle.
Question 2: Does anyone have any experience with the C2550 Is the C2550 cable of running FreeNAS and transcoding up to 2 (1080P High Bitrate) video streams. This is only a few person household. (Sorry, all I could find was people who were just starting to run it with no reports as to it's viability)
Question 3: SATA III port density. I've read some places that the WD Red and the Seagate NAS do not need the speed of SATA III and SATA II will suffice. Is this true? Mainly the supermicro boards only have 2 SATA III ports. ---ANSWERED
Newegg has an I3-4130 (w/16gb) FreeNAS bundle sans drives at $618
A C2550 build would come in around $600 and a C2770 build would come in around $700. The C2550 board is about $100+ cheaper than a C2750. These are prices without drives.
I apologize if this has already been gone over but I've been searching for the last week about this layout and haven't been able to turn up these last few details.
It will be a pretty standard build
*Fractal Node 304
*Seasonic 360Watt
*SuperMicro or ASrock ECC board
*16GB (2 x 8GB) 1600/1333 DDR3 ECC memory
* 4, 3TB or 4 TB, WD Red Drives
I've done a lot of searching but haven't a direct comparison except for at http://www.techspot.com/review/826-silverstone-ds380-nas/page6.html . Idle at 58Watts, way above the other mainstream processors seems to be some sort of error.
It seems like the multicore performance of the C2750 and the I3 is similar. The Haswell Lines are supposed to be very efficient at idle. If the power differential for 90% of it's operation is small, I'd probably go I3. The C2550 is tempting mostly from a cost perspective.
Question 1: Does anyone have any notion on the power savings, if there is any, between the Avoton and I3 line at idle? Particularly at idle.
Question 2: Does anyone have any experience with the C2550 Is the C2550 cable of running FreeNAS and transcoding up to 2 (1080P High Bitrate) video streams. This is only a few person household. (Sorry, all I could find was people who were just starting to run it with no reports as to it's viability)
Question 3: SATA III port density. I've read some places that the WD Red and the Seagate NAS do not need the speed of SATA III and SATA II will suffice. Is this true? Mainly the supermicro boards only have 2 SATA III ports. ---ANSWERED
Newegg has an I3-4130 (w/16gb) FreeNAS bundle sans drives at $618
A C2550 build would come in around $600 and a C2770 build would come in around $700. The C2550 board is about $100+ cheaper than a C2750. These are prices without drives.
I apologize if this has already been gone over but I've been searching for the last week about this layout and haven't been able to turn up these last few details.
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