nopoe
Cadet
- Joined
- May 12, 2014
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- 8
Here's what I'm planning on using:
SUPERMICRO MBD-A1SRi-2758F-O mini-ITX Avoton board
2x 8gb Kingston KVR16LSE11/8 ECC SO-DIMM
Seasonic SSR-450RM 450w PSU
Rosewill Legacy V6-S
A few 2tb WD Red drives
Note for posterity: This part combination is dubious. I had to move the 140mm fan to the outside of the case in order to mount the power supply. Proceed with caution.
I saw cyberjock's review on the C2750 inside the FreeNAS mini so I'm thinking the C2758 should be fine for my purposes as well but I thought I'd drop by to ask some questions before making the investment. I could still switch to a 1150 server board+i3 since I've only bought the case and PSU so far.
The main question I have is whether I'm burning any bridges by going with an Avoton as compared to an i3. I know it's BGA vs socketed, so I'm losing the ability to upgrade, but beside that, what FreeNAS features am I locked out from using effectively (besides dedup--I don't care about that)? Maybe encryption? These chips have AES-NI support and somebody on youtube claims to get 100mb/s with encryption on a C2750, so I'm thinking even that might work fine.
I'm going to be hosting some web servers and probably a few game servers as well, but nothing crazy. My friend currently hosts a Xonotic server on a Pentium dual core (one of the old ones!). So if it can run on that, it can probably run on this.
I think all my use cases are covered. Am I missing anything?
SUPERMICRO MBD-A1SRi-2758F-O mini-ITX Avoton board
2x 8gb Kingston KVR16LSE11/8 ECC SO-DIMM
Seasonic SSR-450RM 450w PSU
Rosewill Legacy V6-S
A few 2tb WD Red drives
Note for posterity: This part combination is dubious. I had to move the 140mm fan to the outside of the case in order to mount the power supply. Proceed with caution.
I saw cyberjock's review on the C2750 inside the FreeNAS mini so I'm thinking the C2758 should be fine for my purposes as well but I thought I'd drop by to ask some questions before making the investment. I could still switch to a 1150 server board+i3 since I've only bought the case and PSU so far.
The main question I have is whether I'm burning any bridges by going with an Avoton as compared to an i3. I know it's BGA vs socketed, so I'm losing the ability to upgrade, but beside that, what FreeNAS features am I locked out from using effectively (besides dedup--I don't care about that)? Maybe encryption? These chips have AES-NI support and somebody on youtube claims to get 100mb/s with encryption on a C2750, so I'm thinking even that might work fine.
I'm going to be hosting some web servers and probably a few game servers as well, but nothing crazy. My friend currently hosts a Xonotic server on a Pentium dual core (one of the old ones!). So if it can run on that, it can probably run on this.
I think all my use cases are covered. Am I missing anything?