New Hardware Recommendations

[ninjai]

My NAS is starting to show CPU bottleneck, and I started it out on FreeNAS 9.x. Today I'm trunning the latest version of TrueNAS Scale. I'm running 32 GB of memory and and i3-4150 CPU with 6 disks in RAIDZ2.

At the moment I'm thinking just replacing the mobo/ram/cpu, but finding news that latest intels no longer support ECC is a bit disappointing. I'd like quicksync and ECC support, is my only option xeon at this point? Are they loud as hell? I've never used a Xeon that didn't come inside a real server (HPE/Dell etc) so I have no idea what it would sound like in my little Fractal case.

 

[HoneyBadger]

CPU isn't normally the area where one would suspect a bottleneck first, unless you're running VMs inside of SCALE. Can you share a capture of your top or htop status showing the usage?

There's nothing about Xeons that make them inherently loud - what you're hearing is the fan and system design preferring "cool" over "quiet" - to oversimplify, a Xeon is just an i5/i7 with ECC support.

 

[ninjai]

I'm running several VMs. Sometimes I go to fire up something on plex and the CPU load is >4. This proc is 2 core 4 threads, so my understanding is the 4 threads = 4.00 on the load scale in *nix. I can definitely see this at times. When my NAS first boots it sometimes gets murdered like >17 on load.

Lately this seems pretty common for me when I'm doing practically nothing at all:

As for the proc loudness, only concern was the stock fan if it was noisy.

For docker containers, I run a few: