That makes sense.
My current setup I am more than happy with my access speeds with my WD Reds. I can transfer in and out at around ~100mb speeds which is plenty for accessing 4k videos on my network or movies I have saved. That is my sole driver for speed, other than that I don't care.
So if I look at your at your E5 Xeon build, it has 8 cores. I'm slightly outside of my element, but if I my testing of my VM works on my current setup at the basic level. FreeNas basically dedicates the hardware to the VM and is not 'on-demand' in your scenario if I dedicate 4 cores to the VM, I have 4 left and not much left if I want to expand. Am I thinking about that wrong?
If it involves upping my budget because that gets me my 5+ year life. I am ok with that. What does that look and feel like? I don't currently have a ton of data, but I do see that 4TB SSDs are really expensive. I would have to look at power consumption vs price.
My current setup I am more than happy with my access speeds with my WD Reds. I can transfer in and out at around ~100mb speeds which is plenty for accessing 4k videos on my network or movies I have saved. That is my sole driver for speed, other than that I don't care.
So if I look at your at your E5 Xeon build, it has 8 cores. I'm slightly outside of my element, but if I my testing of my VM works on my current setup at the basic level. FreeNas basically dedicates the hardware to the VM and is not 'on-demand' in your scenario if I dedicate 4 cores to the VM, I have 4 left and not much left if I want to expand. Am I thinking about that wrong?
If it involves upping my budget because that gets me my 5+ year life. I am ok with that. What does that look and feel like? I don't currently have a ton of data, but I do see that 4TB SSDs are really expensive. I would have to look at power consumption vs price.