Pentium G3258 enough grunt for running ZFS?

[Fraoch]

Hello:

I'll be building a new FreeNAS server. I want to make sure it performs well so I'm trying to cover all the gotyas:

- 2 X 8 GB ECC RAM
- Supermicro X10SLL-F motherboard
- 2 X 1 TB Western Digital Red hard drives, mirrored (my storage size needs are quite small at this point)

My question is about the CPU. I'm making sure they support ECC so I could go with a Xeon E3 1220 V3 up to an E3 1230 V3, or a Core i3 4360. However I'm considering a Pentium G3258 which also supports ECC.

I won't be doing intensive work with the NAS - just samba file sharing, no transcoding or streaming. But I do want good speeds - as close to raw hard drive speed as I can get using ZFS mirroring over gigabit, and I'm willing to spend more in order to get that.

I won't be doing anything intensive like encryption or deduplipication either.

So would the Pentium G3258 have enough power for good speeds if it's not doing much other than using ZFS for read/writes and sharing using samba?

Thank you.

 

[Market Guru]

From what I read, recommended is 3.0ghz+ for CPU. FreeNAS tend to like more speed rather than cores.

 

[hervon]

I own a Pentium G630 @ 2.7. It's enough for my needs which is pretty much what you plan to do. I use the least CPU intensive compression. I even did some 'light' transcoding with a few files that would not play with miniDLNA.

 

[Ericloewe]

Should be enough, but I'd go with something like an i3 43xx

 

[Market Guru]

I see, very interesting. I will also looking to these CPU for my need

 

[Knowltey]

Oh hell yeah, the server I'm upgrading from was running an E8400, and that was plenty more than enough, only issue was that it doesn't support ECC. I'm upgrading to a G3220 for reference.

 

[Yatti420]

Fine.. Just not I'd you want to encode content on the fly..

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[Fraoch]

Thanks for all the replies! As you may suspect from this rather specific choice, I wanted to have a little fun with the processor, in a different motherboard of course. When I'm done with it (I'll be careful with it!) it will live the rest of its life rather comfortably in the server and I'll get a big i7 for more serious work in the workstation.

I may end up going with X99 in my main workstation, in which case I won't have a spare G3258 to use. I'll go with the i3 if things end up that way.

Again, thank you.