freenas Intel i5-3570k or Xeon E3-1240 V2 ?

[cheezystix]

I am building a new freenas 11.2 using older mobo ASUS P8Z77-V PRO and spare LSI SAS card

For CPU .. I have a choice to use either Intel i5-3570k or Xeon E3-1240 V2
I don't plan on using this freenas for anything other than disk (ex. no vms)

Both CPUs have 4 cores but the Xeon has 8 threads (4 on the i5)
benchmarks show mixed bag

So not sure which would be better use here ? or if either would work same ?

 

[Chris Moore]

Depends on the system board, but I would go for the Xeon to get ECC memory support.

 

[cheezystix]

Thx Chris .. good idea .. but the ASUS P8Z77-V PRO doesn't support ECC memory

Just trying to identify any significant differences between using one or other CPU

 

[Chris Moore]

Thx Chris .. good idea .. but the ASUS P8Z77-V PRO doesn't support ECC memory

Just trying to identify any significant differences between using one or other CPU

I would suggest selling the hardware that doesn't support ECC and get a system board like the one in this build list:

Specific build components list - up to 32GB RAM

Mar 3, 2019: I put this together because I was directly asked for it (or something very similar) on several occasions. While this may not be perfect for you, I put three builds together using same model hardware and they have worked for my...

www.ixsystems.com

Only my opinion, but ECC is worth the trouble for the system stability.

 

[cheezystix]

good point on ECC .. and this build is super close to the links you provided .. I believe I just need to swap out the mobo and ram to ECC
and I have everything else .. so will give this a try
Thx for updates

 

[cheezystix]

Chris if you still around .. how does this upgrade path look to you ?

CURRENT
mobo ASUS P8Z77-V PRO LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI
CPU Intel Core i5-3570K Quad-Core Processor 3.4 GHz 4 Core LGA 1155
RAM G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 32GB DDR3 1600 NON ECC
HBA LSI SAS9211-8I 8PORT
cooler Hyper evo 212
case Fractal Design Arc Midi Black (holds 8 HDDs + 1 SSD for o/s)
power supply CORSAIR HX Series RM550x
SSD 1x Samsung EVO for o/s
HDD 8x WD RED

NEW BUILD
mobo SuperMicro X9SCM-F
CPU Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2 @ 3.40GHz
RAM Crucial 32GB 4x8GB PC3L-12800E DDR3-1600Mhz 240p ECC Unbuffered Server
HBA LSI SAS9211-8I 8PORT
cooler Hyper evo 212
case Fractal Design Arc Midi Black (holds 8 HDDs + 1 SSD for o/s)
power supply CORSAIR HX Series RM550x
SSD 1x Samsung EVO for o/s
HDD 8x WD RED

 

[cheezystix]

Sorry failed to mention I also have an HBA
LSI SAS9211-8I 8PORT
plan on porting over as well

 

[Chris Moore]

That looks really good to me. When you put it together, post some photos.

 

[cheezystix]

Up and running ! Thanks for assistance
Will probably add another 16GB RAM soon

currently
mobo SuperMicro X9SCM-F
CPU Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2 @ 3.40GHz
RAM Crucial 16GB 2x8GB PC3L-12800E DDR3-1600Mhz 240p ECC Unbuffered Server RAM
HBA LSI SAS9211-8I 8PORT (flashed IT mode)
cooler Hyper EVO 212
case Fractal Design Arc Midi Black (holds 8 HDDs + 1 SSD for o/s)
power supply CORSAIR HX Series RM550x
SSD 1x Samsung EVO 250gb for o/s
HDD 8x 8TB Seagate NAS

 

[cheezystix]

I don't have mirrored boot drives .. but I could add as well
But seems like it's easy enough to restore (backing up the config) if this ever happened

Any significant advantage to mirrored boot drives .. other than no downtime in the even of failure ?
I don't use my setup 24x7 and seems easy enough to restore o/s if went down

 

[CDilla]

Nice build looking to do something very similar myself, could you tell me where you sourced the SuperMicro X9SCM-F motherboard? There are a few on eBay but all outside of the UK.

 

[cheezystix]

I purchased from here .. BRAND NEW (from Cleveland Ohio)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Brand-New-...-1155-Micro-ATX-Server-board-i-o/253933323422

but I have also bought used on EBAY as well
here's a link of largely all the same components I used (provided by Chris)
https://www.ixsystems.com/community/resources/specific-build-components-list-up-to-32gb-ram.109/

 

[CDilla]

Thank you kind sir

 

[cheezystix]

FYI, I did have some poor performance issues using a 10gbe card on this SuperMicro X9SCM-F motherboard

basically I had to rollback the bios to rev 2.0c
instead of what shipped which was rev 2.3 to resolve

just in the event you plan on using a 10gbe card

 

[cheezystix]

Updated Build
mobo SuperMicro X9SCM-F
CPU Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2 @ 3.40GHz
RAM Crucial 32GB 4x8GB PC3L-12800E DDR3-1600Mhz 240p ECC Unbuffered Server
HBA LSI SAS9211-8I 8PORT
cooler Hyper evo 212
case Fractal Design Arc Midi Black (holds 8 HDDs + 1 SSD for o/s)
power supply CORSAIR HX Series RM550x
SSD 1x Samsung EVO for o/s
HDD 8x WD RED
10GBe card Mellanox Connectx-2 PCI-E 10GBe MNPA19-XTR
10GBe switch MikroTik CRS305-1G-4S
10GBe cable 10G SFP+ DAC Cable

above gets me faster transfer rates