Hi!
I'm working on my first build and totally new to the world of DIY builds...
The idea is to build a file server with 128 GB of memory (I read 64 should be enough for now, but I'd like to have the option to scale up) and around 100 TB of raw storage (movies, photo's, large data sets). At this point I'm not planning to use the server for anything else than file sharing. I read the (great!!!) hard ware guide and a lot of posts, in order to eliminate CPU/ motherboard combinations. First, I eliminated the intel core i3 (incompatible with 128GB ECC memory). And I don't want to use used components (hard to get in the Netherlands).
The second CPU on my list was the intel atom (c3xxx). But I did some comparing with other CPU's and now to me it seems the only advantage of the atoms is their power usage? While they offer little computational power, relative to their costs and less flexibility because they are soc? I'm inclined to scratch the atoms of my list as well and move on to pentium/ xeon/ ryzen. Could you tell me if I'm missing some other advantage of the Atom?
thank you for your answer!!!
I'm working on my first build and totally new to the world of DIY builds...
The idea is to build a file server with 128 GB of memory (I read 64 should be enough for now, but I'd like to have the option to scale up) and around 100 TB of raw storage (movies, photo's, large data sets). At this point I'm not planning to use the server for anything else than file sharing. I read the (great!!!) hard ware guide and a lot of posts, in order to eliminate CPU/ motherboard combinations. First, I eliminated the intel core i3 (incompatible with 128GB ECC memory). And I don't want to use used components (hard to get in the Netherlands).
The second CPU on my list was the intel atom (c3xxx). But I did some comparing with other CPU's and now to me it seems the only advantage of the atoms is their power usage? While they offer little computational power, relative to their costs and less flexibility because they are soc? I'm inclined to scratch the atoms of my list as well and move on to pentium/ xeon/ ryzen. Could you tell me if I'm missing some other advantage of the Atom?
thank you for your answer!!!