Hey All,
Currently have an X10 system which has been running for many years and has been such rock stable. I also have a separate Blue Iris machine which I recently setup. I am considering building a system with ESXI to run both Truenas Core and Blue Iris to save on power cost. Currently we have some of the highest energy costs in the country and my cost per kwh just doubled on Jan 1st. This is just a home media/data server currently, so it does not get that much activity.
I will need Intel Quick Sync for Blue Iris and it needs to handle x265, which is Gen 6th and newer I believe. I currently only have 1 4k camera, but will be adding more in the future and looking to keep video files sizes down when possible. I also could use the 1050 Ti, although it seems Blue Iris is more stable with Quick Sync, not sure about that though?
So looking for some recommendations on Intel Xeon CPU's that have Quick Sync. It would be nice to stick with older hardware like the X11, trying to keep costs down and X12 is still very new. Something with at least 64GB of memory support for future expansion or even 128GB. I would also want the ability to add a 10GB NIC to the machine as I am upgrading to a Brocade ICX-6450-48P switch so I would like to take advantage of the SFP+ 10GB links for the server.
I was also throwing around the idea of maxing out my current X10 board with 32GB of memory and running ESXI on that and use a NVIDIA 1050 TI which I already have for Blue Iris. But this would be pushing the limits with the memory I suspect. Although currently I run 8 jails and 10 different apps on 24GB of memory with no issues and it has been running for 7 years at this point. I would consider this a stop gap until upgrading at a later date though, as the cost would be almost nothing.
Storage wise I doubt I would go over 100TB in the future. I know I am at the limits of the 24GB and even 32GB of memory already so this is also why I am considering upgrading for future expansion and 64GB of memory.
Current System:
Supermicro X10SL7-F
Intel Xeon E3-1230V3
24GB Crucial DDR3 ECC
5x14TB WD Drives
NORCO RPC-4020
TrueNAS-13.0-U3.1
Currently have an X10 system which has been running for many years and has been such rock stable. I also have a separate Blue Iris machine which I recently setup. I am considering building a system with ESXI to run both Truenas Core and Blue Iris to save on power cost. Currently we have some of the highest energy costs in the country and my cost per kwh just doubled on Jan 1st. This is just a home media/data server currently, so it does not get that much activity.
I will need Intel Quick Sync for Blue Iris and it needs to handle x265, which is Gen 6th and newer I believe. I currently only have 1 4k camera, but will be adding more in the future and looking to keep video files sizes down when possible. I also could use the 1050 Ti, although it seems Blue Iris is more stable with Quick Sync, not sure about that though?
So looking for some recommendations on Intel Xeon CPU's that have Quick Sync. It would be nice to stick with older hardware like the X11, trying to keep costs down and X12 is still very new. Something with at least 64GB of memory support for future expansion or even 128GB. I would also want the ability to add a 10GB NIC to the machine as I am upgrading to a Brocade ICX-6450-48P switch so I would like to take advantage of the SFP+ 10GB links for the server.
I was also throwing around the idea of maxing out my current X10 board with 32GB of memory and running ESXI on that and use a NVIDIA 1050 TI which I already have for Blue Iris. But this would be pushing the limits with the memory I suspect. Although currently I run 8 jails and 10 different apps on 24GB of memory with no issues and it has been running for 7 years at this point. I would consider this a stop gap until upgrading at a later date though, as the cost would be almost nothing.
Storage wise I doubt I would go over 100TB in the future. I know I am at the limits of the 24GB and even 32GB of memory already so this is also why I am considering upgrading for future expansion and 64GB of memory.
Current System:
Supermicro X10SL7-F
Intel Xeon E3-1230V3
24GB Crucial DDR3 ECC
5x14TB WD Drives
NORCO RPC-4020
TrueNAS-13.0-U3.1