Robert Thomspon
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Hey gents... so, im at a turning point on my home lab and have to make a consideration...
Currently, I have an ML350 Gen8 with a single Xeon E5-2609v2 with 96GB of RAM and 4x8TB seagate garbage drives...
I currently have coming tomorrow, 5x 12TB WD Red Drives... and Ive decided that, with the savings I made on the drives (under budget), I could afford a few hundred bucks thrown at a new rig... Ive been eyeballing Dell R720s, 730s and 740s...
But the question is... is that money better spent on maxing out the CPUs in the ML350 or actually investing in new?
If I upgrade the ML350, i would be looking to move it to 2x E5-2697v2s OR 2x E5-2690v2s and probably increasing the RAM to 192 (I have the extra RAM already... and probably faster RAM than whats in the machine now (the newer processors can support faster RAM)...
Any advice would be MUCH appreciated...
Currently, I have an ML350 Gen8 with a single Xeon E5-2609v2 with 96GB of RAM and 4x8TB seagate garbage drives...
I currently have coming tomorrow, 5x 12TB WD Red Drives... and Ive decided that, with the savings I made on the drives (under budget), I could afford a few hundred bucks thrown at a new rig... Ive been eyeballing Dell R720s, 730s and 740s...
But the question is... is that money better spent on maxing out the CPUs in the ML350 or actually investing in new?
If I upgrade the ML350, i would be looking to move it to 2x E5-2697v2s OR 2x E5-2690v2s and probably increasing the RAM to 192 (I have the extra RAM already... and probably faster RAM than whats in the machine now (the newer processors can support faster RAM)...
Any advice would be MUCH appreciated...