I am scratch building 3 ITX form factor Freenas boxes, for personal use.
I'd like to save $10 per CPU (Celeron G440 v G530) and lower the Ram costs if possible.
As long as the throughput bottleneck on Box 1 is the Gigabit NIC, and not the array, I'm happy.
(And, of course, I want Box 1 to serve as close to Gigabit speed as possible.)
Here's how the Trio will be used:
Box 1 - 6TB *UFS Raid 0* (4 x 1.5TB). 4GB DDR3. Gigabit.
Box 2 - 6TB Raid-Z (4 x 2TB). 8GB DDR3. Gigabit.
Box 3 - 6TB Raid-Z (4 x 2TB). 8GB DDR3. Gigabit.
Box 1 will be the "live data". It needs to be my throughput performer.
Box 1 will run CIFS, Rsync, monitoring services.
Box 1 will be mounted to one Win 7 node via CIFS. Gb Nic on Win 7 node.
Box 1 will get heavy read/write for personal photo and video editing.
None of the boxes will serve media streams or do media decoding.
Box 2 & 3 will only receive replication from Box 1, on an hourly basis.
For *the use-case described above*, ie., not benchmarking, or pedantics,
- Is there any benefit to a dual-core versus single-core cpu?
- Is 4GB good for Box 1 (ufs raid 0) or will 8GB matter?
- Is 8GB needed for Box 2 & 3. It'll just be doing hourly pulls?
Thanks!
Dave
I'd like to save $10 per CPU (Celeron G440 v G530) and lower the Ram costs if possible.
As long as the throughput bottleneck on Box 1 is the Gigabit NIC, and not the array, I'm happy.
(And, of course, I want Box 1 to serve as close to Gigabit speed as possible.)
Here's how the Trio will be used:
Box 1 - 6TB *UFS Raid 0* (4 x 1.5TB). 4GB DDR3. Gigabit.
Box 2 - 6TB Raid-Z (4 x 2TB). 8GB DDR3. Gigabit.
Box 3 - 6TB Raid-Z (4 x 2TB). 8GB DDR3. Gigabit.
Box 1 will be the "live data". It needs to be my throughput performer.
Box 1 will run CIFS, Rsync, monitoring services.
Box 1 will be mounted to one Win 7 node via CIFS. Gb Nic on Win 7 node.
Box 1 will get heavy read/write for personal photo and video editing.
None of the boxes will serve media streams or do media decoding.
Box 2 & 3 will only receive replication from Box 1, on an hourly basis.
For *the use-case described above*, ie., not benchmarking, or pedantics,
- Is there any benefit to a dual-core versus single-core cpu?
- Is 4GB good for Box 1 (ufs raid 0) or will 8GB matter?
- Is 8GB needed for Box 2 & 3. It'll just be doing hourly pulls?
Thanks!
Dave