Does anyone remember the days when all you had to do to run SMP was make sure your board and CPU were compatible?... sheesh. I started SMP in the pentium pro days and lived through various slots, sockets, and LGA's. Then everything became a numbers game where you had to look at a chart to get performance numbers. Now, you need to know what precious metal you have and what number it is. I'm not sure what I'm even looking at now, lol. Sure, multiple cores on die have made things better and much easier, we no longer need things like slot/socket terminators, etc... But where does that leave the average entheusiast? What the heck do I buy to replace my aging hardware?
my box has evolved over the years and is currently sitting on an E3 1200 V5 (I think it is a 1231 if I remember correctly, no video). I absolutely love the board, which is an X10SL7-F with the 2308 cross flashed to IT mode. I'm also running an M5015 and 32GB of ECC DDR3. I've been happy with this setup for a while. I'm currently using a healthy mix of 5TB drives from different vendors and have almost exhausted my free space. I'm running vdevs with 3 drives each for redundancy and currently have 15 drives in my 3 backplanes.
I'd like to move to 10TB drives and was thinking of just building a new system since the drives and RAM are going to be 75% of the cost. I already have a spare 4U case, some extra backplanes, etc, so why not. I'm semi-interested in a dual CPU board since all of the current xeons seem to be dual socket or more (why no E3 replacement?).
My use case is nothing shocking. We have:
1.) A PLEX server delivering video to less than 10 screens in the house only. Transcoding # threads are a concern
2.) live copies of family photos, video, etc that are backed up elsewhere
3.) low-ish power consumption
So, which scalable xeons are best suited to NAS use and why?
my box has evolved over the years and is currently sitting on an E3 1200 V5 (I think it is a 1231 if I remember correctly, no video). I absolutely love the board, which is an X10SL7-F with the 2308 cross flashed to IT mode. I'm also running an M5015 and 32GB of ECC DDR3. I've been happy with this setup for a while. I'm currently using a healthy mix of 5TB drives from different vendors and have almost exhausted my free space. I'm running vdevs with 3 drives each for redundancy and currently have 15 drives in my 3 backplanes.
I'd like to move to 10TB drives and was thinking of just building a new system since the drives and RAM are going to be 75% of the cost. I already have a spare 4U case, some extra backplanes, etc, so why not. I'm semi-interested in a dual CPU board since all of the current xeons seem to be dual socket or more (why no E3 replacement?).
My use case is nothing shocking. We have:
1.) A PLEX server delivering video to less than 10 screens in the house only. Transcoding # threads are a concern
2.) live copies of family photos, video, etc that are backed up elsewhere
3.) low-ish power consumption
So, which scalable xeons are best suited to NAS use and why?