taylornate
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Hi all,
I'm looking at setting up my first freeNAS system. It will be for home use and I plan to make good use of plugins such as plex with media transcoding, bittorrent, crashplan backup, etc. I've thoroughly read the hardware recommendations sticky, and have put together a parts list for mid and high-end configurations based on those recommendation. They are about $800 and $1200 respectively, both without memory or discs and built in a used 4U supermicro chassis with SAS2 expanding backplane.
I'm struggling with the idea of building one of these systems when I see what can be had used on ebay. One example being a system with dual 6-core 2.6ghz cpu and 96gb memory for about $1000. There are others to choose from with less cpu and memory for less money, as low as $500. I've asked for clarification on the memory and motherboard for the $1000 system, but all of this sort of system I've come across so far have been with ECC DDR3. I know that the RAID card in most of these will be useless and depending on the motherboard I may need to buy an HBA card.
I think the main catch is the cpu generation, which tends to be westmere or nehalem. In his recommendation thread, cyberjock recommends not using anything older than Sandy Bridge, with the only reason given being power consumption.
So my questions are:
1) Is power consumption such an important factor? This isn't something I've considered in a build before. Is it really going to cost so much more to run that it becomes a bad deal?
2) Could single-threaded performance of these older CPUs be a problem with samba? It would be great (or even overkill) to have 8 or 12 cores to run plugins, but it would defeat the purpose if the main use of serving files suffered.
3) Are there any other caveats that I'm missing or anything else that I haven't considered?
Any and all insight appreciated.
Thanks
I'm looking at setting up my first freeNAS system. It will be for home use and I plan to make good use of plugins such as plex with media transcoding, bittorrent, crashplan backup, etc. I've thoroughly read the hardware recommendations sticky, and have put together a parts list for mid and high-end configurations based on those recommendation. They are about $800 and $1200 respectively, both without memory or discs and built in a used 4U supermicro chassis with SAS2 expanding backplane.
I'm struggling with the idea of building one of these systems when I see what can be had used on ebay. One example being a system with dual 6-core 2.6ghz cpu and 96gb memory for about $1000. There are others to choose from with less cpu and memory for less money, as low as $500. I've asked for clarification on the memory and motherboard for the $1000 system, but all of this sort of system I've come across so far have been with ECC DDR3. I know that the RAID card in most of these will be useless and depending on the motherboard I may need to buy an HBA card.
I think the main catch is the cpu generation, which tends to be westmere or nehalem. In his recommendation thread, cyberjock recommends not using anything older than Sandy Bridge, with the only reason given being power consumption.
So my questions are:
1) Is power consumption such an important factor? This isn't something I've considered in a build before. Is it really going to cost so much more to run that it becomes a bad deal?
2) Could single-threaded performance of these older CPUs be a problem with samba? It would be great (or even overkill) to have 8 or 12 cores to run plugins, but it would defeat the purpose if the main use of serving files suffered.
3) Are there any other caveats that I'm missing or anything else that I haven't considered?
Any and all insight appreciated.
Thanks
