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Given the age of your X8, any newer Xeon D/E5/Scalable (X10 to X12) or EPYC will be a boost. For sharing with SMB, you're looking at few cores but high clocks.
Another option may to share with NFS (with sync writes disabled) instead of SMB to make use of multithreading.
Another option may to share with NFS (with sync writes disabled) instead of SMB to make use of multithreading.