The FreeNAS... Mystery?

[JoshDW19]

We've got something big coming later this week. Make sure to stay tuned for more information.

 

[HoneyBadger]

FreeNAS 2: Electric Boogaloo?

I'm calling it, Xeon-D based Mini and Mini XL systems, NVMe SLOGs.

 

[ThreeDee]

Ryzen Freenas!

 

[garm]

Ryzen Freenas!

Based on what board?

 

[Ericloewe]

Based on what board?

ASRock has one or two.

 

[jgreco]

FreeNAS-Nano. 16 x 1TB USB flash on a Raspberry Pi 4. Come on, it's the product everyone's been dreaming of... your own portable personal cloud.

 

[proto]

half a Cray?

 

[Ericloewe]

FreeNAS-Nano. 16 x 1TB USB flash on a Raspberry Pi 4. Come on, it's the product everyone's been dreaming of... your own portable personal cloud.

Channeling the best campiness Sun had to offer?

 

[jenksdrummer]

...and here I just bought a pair of supermicro boxes because I didn't want an Atom based timebomb of a system...

Oh well.

 

[Jailer]

Atom based timebomb

Good name for the Avoton series. Atom bomb.

 

[danb35]

...and the new ones are still Avoton-based. Really?

 

[Ericloewe]

...and the new ones are still Avoton-based. Really?

They seem to be C3000 (I'm guessing the old models will get switched over to C3000 soon-ish): https://www.ixsystems.com/freenas-mini/ (click on full specifications)

Mini E has a C3338 and the Mini XL+ has a C3758. I'm not sure anybody on the forums actually tried the dual-core one, but I expect to be similar to a C2550, with the much-improved microarchitecture making up for the lack of the extra two cores. C3758 should be pretty neat.

 

[Ericloewe]

Hmm, getting rid of the stupid PCIe switch that the ASRock C2750D4I has saves 5 W across the board, on paper, on the C3758 model.

 

[Ericloewe]

Let's redirect this discussion to the other thread now that the news is out: https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/new-freenas-mini-models-announced.77888/