Fraoch
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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.
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.