RandomBloke85
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Hello
A couple of months ago, I wanted to replace my SynologyNAS with an open source solution and gave Truenas a try. I had a bunch of less then ideal hardware in my basement from my old desktop PC laying around which should be good enough to get start with.
In the meantime, I'm running TRUENAS as a NAS (obviously), with PLEX, Nextcloud (plus Talk and Music) and syncthing jails on top of it. All runs very well and is very convenient to use. We're a small household with only 5 users, so we don't need super sophisticated hardware, I guess. We're running TRUENAS just with 2 8TB mirrored seagate disks.
Now what I would like to do is getting down the power consumption while making the system faster - if possible.
The current i7-875K is a 2010 design with a TPD of 95W, no ECC-support, no-AES-NI support (if I wanted it to use it in my pfsense router one day) and graphics support (for PLEX hardware acceleration). And it seems, that it can't handle multiple tasks at once very well. The Gigabyte P55-UD3 Board only supports DDR3 memory, lacks ECC support and has no UEFI bios.
The latest edition of the TRUENAS community hardware guide, recommends i3's for "medium usage". From the description, an i3 would probably fit the bill in our case, like the 8100 or 9100F for example. The TDP is about 30-40% lower and has all the features, which were missing on the i7-875K. That plus 16GB ECC-DDR4 RAM and a matching board(?) would be an upgrade which makes sense I think?
So my question is, would it make sense to go with a 9th gen i3 or would an E3, E5 XEON (which I don't know at all) and a AsRock/Supermicro board be the better choice (I've heard, that they are not very power efficient)? Or should I even look around in the AMD Ryzen section? Or should I consider something completly different and my thinking is wrong all over?
Thank you
A couple of months ago, I wanted to replace my SynologyNAS with an open source solution and gave Truenas a try. I had a bunch of less then ideal hardware in my basement from my old desktop PC laying around which should be good enough to get start with.
In the meantime, I'm running TRUENAS as a NAS (obviously), with PLEX, Nextcloud (plus Talk and Music) and syncthing jails on top of it. All runs very well and is very convenient to use. We're a small household with only 5 users, so we don't need super sophisticated hardware, I guess. We're running TRUENAS just with 2 8TB mirrored seagate disks.
Now what I would like to do is getting down the power consumption while making the system faster - if possible.
The current i7-875K is a 2010 design with a TPD of 95W, no ECC-support, no-AES-NI support (if I wanted it to use it in my pfsense router one day) and graphics support (for PLEX hardware acceleration). And it seems, that it can't handle multiple tasks at once very well. The Gigabyte P55-UD3 Board only supports DDR3 memory, lacks ECC support and has no UEFI bios.
The latest edition of the TRUENAS community hardware guide, recommends i3's for "medium usage". From the description, an i3 would probably fit the bill in our case, like the 8100 or 9100F for example. The TDP is about 30-40% lower and has all the features, which were missing on the i7-875K. That plus 16GB ECC-DDR4 RAM and a matching board(?) would be an upgrade which makes sense I think?
So my question is, would it make sense to go with a 9th gen i3 or would an E3, E5 XEON (which I don't know at all) and a AsRock/Supermicro board be the better choice (I've heard, that they are not very power efficient)? Or should I even look around in the AMD Ryzen section? Or should I consider something completly different and my thinking is wrong all over?
Thank you
