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In my quest to consider a replacement for the Avoton-based Mini XL motherboard, I have run across these two boards. While I haven't run into CPU limits ever on the Avoton C2750-based board, I suspect that the slower SATA ports are having an impact on my pool performance.
What I really like about the two Supermicro boards is that they feature two PCIe x8 slots, a M2 at x4, SATADOM for the OS, and relatively modest power demands (35W TDP). The CPU varies between these two boards (D-1518 for the 4C, vs. the D-1537 for the other) as does the price (the 4C costs about 1/2 of the other). Both offer two on-board SFP+ ports, as well as a LSI 2116 HBA which should keep attached SATA drives happy.
Now to my question. For a home set up where this thing will get used solely as a file server with an encrypted pool, (no PLEX, no virtual machines, etc.) will the "slower" D-1518 work well for 2-3 users or will the additional cores in the D-1537 have a noticeable impact? Espc. considering that CPU loading never exceeded 40% on my Avoton? I don't anticipate using anything besides AFP and SMB for protocols. Whether I turn on SMB encryption is up for grabs, but let's assume I will for argument's sake.
The pool will consist of 8x10TB HGST he10's, in a Z3 supplemented by a L2ARC (500GB EVO 840 SSD) and two mirrored SLOGs (Intel DC S3710 @ 200GB ea). Intended system RAM would be 2x32GB for 64GB ECC RDIMM.
What I really like about the two Supermicro boards is that they feature two PCIe x8 slots, a M2 at x4, SATADOM for the OS, and relatively modest power demands (35W TDP). The CPU varies between these two boards (D-1518 for the 4C, vs. the D-1537 for the other) as does the price (the 4C costs about 1/2 of the other). Both offer two on-board SFP+ ports, as well as a LSI 2116 HBA which should keep attached SATA drives happy.
Now to my question. For a home set up where this thing will get used solely as a file server with an encrypted pool, (no PLEX, no virtual machines, etc.) will the "slower" D-1518 work well for 2-3 users or will the additional cores in the D-1537 have a noticeable impact? Espc. considering that CPU loading never exceeded 40% on my Avoton? I don't anticipate using anything besides AFP and SMB for protocols. Whether I turn on SMB encryption is up for grabs, but let's assume I will for argument's sake.
The pool will consist of 8x10TB HGST he10's, in a Z3 supplemented by a L2ARC (500GB EVO 840 SSD) and two mirrored SLOGs (Intel DC S3710 @ 200GB ea). Intended system RAM would be 2x32GB for 64GB ECC RDIMM.
