New Intel Atom 2750 / 2758

[Harsesis]

Hi,

I'm thinking about building a new Server in near (or not SO near) future. One critera thats very important for me is the power Consumption. So today I saw some interesting Boards with the new Intel Atom 2750 processor and I was wondering how well that would work with Freenas / ZFS. One of the Boards I saw was the ASRock C2750D4I. What do you think, are the new atom processors quick enough to run a well performing Freenas system?

(My main question relates to the Processor not this concrete board)

 

[Nindustries]

there are other topics about that board specifically, and it seems the cpu can saturate at least 2 gigabit links.

Use this board when running multiple applicationa that can benefit from high core count and not frequency.

- Sent from mobile.

 

[jgreco]

I'm skeptical of any claims to saturating gigabit links with FreeNAS and ZFS, or CIFS. We'll see I guess.

 

[Harsesis]

Yeah, I'm skeptical with especially CIFS, too. ATM I'm running a freenas in virtual enviroment on 3 cores of an i5 2400 and the cpu usage can be quite sigfinicant using a cifs share...

 

[MDKRUSH]

This board works nice for me, this thread I posted some of my experience with it...
http://forums.freenas.org/threads/atom-c2558-a1srm-2558f-freenas-compatibility.17462/#post-100033

 

[Shroom]

Anyone figure out the difference in performance between the ASRock 2750 and the SuperMicro A1SRi-2758? I believe the only difference between the C2750 and the C2758 is that the C2750 has TurboBoost whereas the 2758 has QuickAssist.

Honestly the SuperMicro board looks better with only the 6 SATA ports. People don't seem too keen on those extra Marvell controllers the ASRock has, and I like the quad-Gb Intel controller the SuperMicro has (as well as SO-DIMM - saves board space. Plus the Supermicro actually has an internal USB A header.