Time for a upgrade/change - Help on Hardware

[Soloam]

Hello all, my system is starting to laking some resorces for me, so I'm planing a upgrade/change.

This is my system:

• Supermicro X10SL7-F IT Mode
• Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3
• Crucial 32GB DDR3 1600MHz ECC (2 x 16 GB)
• 4 x WDRed 2TB RAIDz2
• 1x WDGreen 2TB
• 1x WDGreen1TB

My Goal:

• MUST keep micro-ATX form factor, space limitations
• Bump the number of drives, I want to have more space and more pools, my ideia s to make (but planning to grow in the future)
  • 4 x WDRed 4TB RAIDz2
  • 4 x WDRed 2TB RAIDz2
  • 3 x WDGreen 2TB RAIDz1
  • 1 x WDGreen 2TB
• Change my system to Registed ECC RAM, I want to bump my ECC RAM to a minimum of 64GB and more
• Bump the number of cores to allow more VM's, I would a minimum of 8 cores with 16 Threads
• Room to improve in VM's and Jails
  • NextCloud
  • Emby/Plex (Transcoding)
  • NodeRed
  • HomeAssistant
  • Syncthing
• 10 Gb Lan would be nice, but not a must.

My Suggestion of System (I'll update):

• Supermicro X11SPM-TPF
• << CPU Advice >>
• << Advice on memory type, a lot is supported on this MB >>

Thank you in advance

 

[adrianwi]

I've just upgraded my X10 to a X11 and the additional 32GB of RAM to 64 provides a nice bit of the headroom for all the jails (9) and 3 Linux VM's I have running 24x7. The Xeon v6 CPU is more than up to the task, as I suspect the v3 would be. I also doubled the HDD storage with larger 8TB drives and moved the jails across to SSDs in a mirror. I might increase the size of them at some point and move the VMs to SSD too.

 

[Soloam]

Your MB is the X11SSL-CF correct? The main reason that I would like to go with the X11SPM-TPF is the option to go registed memory and lower the price of the memory and have a lot of room to go up from 64Gb.

 

[adrianwi]

Yes. I wanted the built-in SAS controller so I could connect more drives without a HBA