espenfjo
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Hi Guys
Im planning to upgrade an old Synology installation I have going to a fresh TrueNAS Scale installation, but I am a bit at a loss to hardware combinations.
What I am looking at now, after having read a lot of posts and discarded several hardware options.
Right now Im thinking about this setup:
Chassis: Unknown
Motherboard: Supermicro X9DR3-F
CPU: Dual Xeon E5-2660 (SR0KK) (V1 maybe?)
Mem: 14x16GB Samsung DDR3 M393B2G70BH0-CK0 PC3-12800 DDR3-1600MHz ECC Registered CL11
Disks: 5x6TB HDD + 5x4TB HDD
The Mobo, cpu and ram is available to me for about €$520
The primary usage for this would be Plex 1080p/4k, a couple or ten VMs sitting around and probably not doing much with regards to disk (dedup or compression would be great to keep these VMs smaller) or CPU, some docker containers as well as archival of family photographs/movies/documents/whatnot. I.e. Plex would probably be the most CPU intensive task this system would see.
My main concern is how old the CPU is, and whether it would keep up with transcoding 4k, its passmark scores and low core speed is a bit dubious.
Do you guys believe this cpu/mem/mobo combination is a good fit? There are very few used Supermicro/Xeon combinations available in my country, and buying new components is prohibitively expensive. Due to taxes and shipping costs buying from US/EU ebay sellers would probably double the cost.
Im planning to upgrade an old Synology installation I have going to a fresh TrueNAS Scale installation, but I am a bit at a loss to hardware combinations.
What I am looking at now, after having read a lot of posts and discarded several hardware options.
Right now Im thinking about this setup:
Chassis: Unknown
Motherboard: Supermicro X9DR3-F
CPU: Dual Xeon E5-2660 (SR0KK) (V1 maybe?)
Mem: 14x16GB Samsung DDR3 M393B2G70BH0-CK0 PC3-12800 DDR3-1600MHz ECC Registered CL11
Disks: 5x6TB HDD + 5x4TB HDD
The Mobo, cpu and ram is available to me for about €$520
The primary usage for this would be Plex 1080p/4k, a couple or ten VMs sitting around and probably not doing much with regards to disk (dedup or compression would be great to keep these VMs smaller) or CPU, some docker containers as well as archival of family photographs/movies/documents/whatnot. I.e. Plex would probably be the most CPU intensive task this system would see.
My main concern is how old the CPU is, and whether it would keep up with transcoding 4k, its passmark scores and low core speed is a bit dubious.
Do you guys believe this cpu/mem/mobo combination is a good fit? There are very few used Supermicro/Xeon combinations available in my country, and buying new components is prohibitively expensive. Due to taxes and shipping costs buying from US/EU ebay sellers would probably double the cost.