Evan Richardson
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My current FreeNAS box consists of an X11-SSL-F board and an E3-1230v5 processor (4C/8T). This also serves to handle as a syncthing & plex media server box, which the E3 handles well. I'm running out of space though (backups/photography/home-lab), so I'm looking at building a new storage box. I'm currently looking at the following two boards: https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/D/X10SDV-2C-TP4F.cfm and https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/D/X10SDV-4C-7TP4F.cfm
This new box will serve ONLY as NFS storage (possibly ISCSI as well for VMware) but will NOT be serving as a syncthing target or plexmediaserver, so the hardware requirements are pared down. Give that it will be an NFS box only and sitting Idle most of the time, I'm thinking the 2C/4T processor board will be ok, but I'd hate to get something underpowered. Given that ZFS rebuilds are processor driven, if I ever have to do a resilver of a drive, would the 4C/8T board be a better fit? At almost half the cost I'd rather go with the 2 core version if it'll be adequate. For reference, my build will be a 100+TB build with WD red drives, consisting of 4 6-drive RAIDZ2 vdevs.
Thanks!
This new box will serve ONLY as NFS storage (possibly ISCSI as well for VMware) but will NOT be serving as a syncthing target or plexmediaserver, so the hardware requirements are pared down. Give that it will be an NFS box only and sitting Idle most of the time, I'm thinking the 2C/4T processor board will be ok, but I'd hate to get something underpowered. Given that ZFS rebuilds are processor driven, if I ever have to do a resilver of a drive, would the 4C/8T board be a better fit? At almost half the cost I'd rather go with the 2 core version if it'll be adequate. For reference, my build will be a 100+TB build with WD red drives, consisting of 4 6-drive RAIDZ2 vdevs.
Thanks!