So, in case any of you are wondering, I built a second FreeNAS box and wanted to try out the EPYC. I mean, I get to say EPYC and it's got 8 cores / 16 threads.
So I bought one here at SuperMicro, through a reseller. It's small enough to fit in a 16" deep network rack.
https://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/system/Embedded/AS-5019D-FTN4.cfm
I put four 5TB Seagate laptop spinning drives into it and an M2. I also bought an internal USB 2.0 header adapter to put inside for the USB drives, and 64GB ECC RDIMMs.
It's all set up. A couple of things. Transfer speed is what you'd expect with ZFS1, it's fine responsive with 105MB/s transfers over standard gigabit Ethernet.
It's fast enough, but initially when I installed Plex into a jail on 11.2, it was awful. My Xeon processor system (4/8, 32GB, 8x4TB-WD Reds, 9211 SAS Adapter) would yawn at transcoding 1080p down to a phone, from a big MKV through Plex on an Ubuntu VM. This thing would crap the bed on trying to fast forward a movie over the web browser. So, I moved the VM out of the Plex jail and into an Ubuntu VM, like my other server, but with 6 cores, 8GB RAM. Works fine.
It's mostly loafing now. What else can I throw at it?
This new server has been EATING USB drives, but I think it has to do with the internal USB hub thing I got. It had power from molex, but internally that's unecessary unless I'm running LED lighting. And I'm not. So I pulled the power, but still left the USB hub. However, I've torched 4 or 5 32GB USB drives. Some were Sandisk Cruzer Fits and now am trying Verbatim Nano USB drives. I've thumped one or two of the latter already too. So now I've taken the top off and have my KVM USB hooked internally to that (on a shelf below my rack) and the USB sticks only in the two exterior USB slots. I installed to one, removed the install USB, then mirrored a second one... so far so good.
So, points to take. The EPYC has run everything pretty well so far. VM's have all loaded up (Windows 10, Ubuntu 19.04) so far... Something to add to your list, if you want.
So I bought one here at SuperMicro, through a reseller. It's small enough to fit in a 16" deep network rack.
https://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/system/Embedded/AS-5019D-FTN4.cfm
I put four 5TB Seagate laptop spinning drives into it and an M2. I also bought an internal USB 2.0 header adapter to put inside for the USB drives, and 64GB ECC RDIMMs.
It's all set up. A couple of things. Transfer speed is what you'd expect with ZFS1, it's fine responsive with 105MB/s transfers over standard gigabit Ethernet.
It's fast enough, but initially when I installed Plex into a jail on 11.2, it was awful. My Xeon processor system (4/8, 32GB, 8x4TB-WD Reds, 9211 SAS Adapter) would yawn at transcoding 1080p down to a phone, from a big MKV through Plex on an Ubuntu VM. This thing would crap the bed on trying to fast forward a movie over the web browser. So, I moved the VM out of the Plex jail and into an Ubuntu VM, like my other server, but with 6 cores, 8GB RAM. Works fine.
It's mostly loafing now. What else can I throw at it?
This new server has been EATING USB drives, but I think it has to do with the internal USB hub thing I got. It had power from molex, but internally that's unecessary unless I'm running LED lighting. And I'm not. So I pulled the power, but still left the USB hub. However, I've torched 4 or 5 32GB USB drives. Some were Sandisk Cruzer Fits and now am trying Verbatim Nano USB drives. I've thumped one or two of the latter already too. So now I've taken the top off and have my KVM USB hooked internally to that (on a shelf below my rack) and the USB sticks only in the two exterior USB slots. I installed to one, removed the install USB, then mirrored a second one... so far so good.
So, points to take. The EPYC has run everything pretty well so far. VM's have all loaded up (Windows 10, Ubuntu 19.04) so far... Something to add to your list, if you want.