jtonthebike
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- Apr 17, 2015
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Hi,
I'm currently getting to the build stage of my new Freenas box. I have some kit, namely a SuperMicro X9C-F-B board, 16Gb of ECC RAM (matched to board), 3x IBM 1015's, a supermicro 24 bay 846 chassis (currently being modified to accomodate ATX PSU, 3x 140mm and 2x 80mm fans) and there will be 12 3Tb disks going in it for now.
I have an E3-1230v2 CPU available to go in and also a Pentium G2030 spare from an old build. At the moment, I do not envisage a heavy demand on the server, however, that could change should I build an ESXi box and use iscsi or similar for some development work.
Within that lot of plans is to use RAIDZ2 as I am happy with 2x disks being used for parity
Anyway, with that preamble over and done.
I am unsure as to whether I should carry on with plans to use the E3 chip for the Freenas box, or, given my current media demands (two adults, one baby, both work full time + occasional evenings, a movie once a week and a MythTV server recording one or two shows a week) should I use the E3 in my intended ESXi box and take advantage of being able to run lots of VM's?
What sort of throughput in read speed would I see in using the G2030 compared to the E3-1230v2?
Will 16Gb of RAM be enough?
Kind regards
Jonathan
I'm currently getting to the build stage of my new Freenas box. I have some kit, namely a SuperMicro X9C-F-B board, 16Gb of ECC RAM (matched to board), 3x IBM 1015's, a supermicro 24 bay 846 chassis (currently being modified to accomodate ATX PSU, 3x 140mm and 2x 80mm fans) and there will be 12 3Tb disks going in it for now.
I have an E3-1230v2 CPU available to go in and also a Pentium G2030 spare from an old build. At the moment, I do not envisage a heavy demand on the server, however, that could change should I build an ESXi box and use iscsi or similar for some development work.
Within that lot of plans is to use RAIDZ2 as I am happy with 2x disks being used for parity
Anyway, with that preamble over and done.
I am unsure as to whether I should carry on with plans to use the E3 chip for the Freenas box, or, given my current media demands (two adults, one baby, both work full time + occasional evenings, a movie once a week and a MythTV server recording one or two shows a week) should I use the E3 in my intended ESXi box and take advantage of being able to run lots of VM's?
What sort of throughput in read speed would I see in using the G2030 compared to the E3-1230v2?
Will 16Gb of RAM be enough?
Kind regards
Jonathan