Mobo upgrade

[joncy92]

Hey guys,

I currently have freenas running very stably on a Dell T130 server with the following components:

Dell T130 mobo (c236 chipset)
Intel Pentium G4500
Dell PERC H730 (HBA mode)
WD red HDDs

I'm upgrading because the system is used mainly as a media server and the CPU struggles to transcode 4K.
I've ordered:

Supermicro X11SCH-F-O
Intel i3-9100

Just wanted your opinions on whether these two components are good upgrades and should I just do away with the H730 RAID card and use the onboard sata ports instead?

Thanks in advance

 

[rvassar]

If it's running stable... Why not just upgrade the CPU? You can drop a e3-1270v5 in it for around $110, and have better Passmark numbers than the i3-9100. If I remember correctly you can move the T130 to the E3-12xx v6's with a BIOS update.

 

[joncy92]

If it's running stable... Why not just upgrade the CPU? You can drop a e3-1270v5 in it for around $110, and have better Passmark numbers than the i3-9100. If I remember correctly you can move the T130 to the E3-12xx v6's with a BIOS update.

The t130 I have is a decommissioned Nasuni Filer server so the bios has been modified and I've never been able to reset it.
Also the pentium I have actually has an iGPU, it's just the t130 doesn't support them unfortunately.

It's so so much the passmark but more getting hardware transcoding working

 

[generoberts]

Certainly!