Hello,
Ill be upgrading my CPU next week from quad core to hex core CPU.
I'm simply thinking i can shutdown the server (currently on 112+ days uptime), change out the CPU and power on the server.
Will FreeNas be upset at all in some way by seeing more cores than was present at install? I would think not but i don't want to upset it by not doing something i'm perhaps supposed to do to prepare it.
Any advise would be appreciated.
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More info:
I'm replacing a W3520 with a W3680 Xeon the which is the second most powerful my motherboard can take. That would be the W3690 which is not easy to get in the UK/EU without paying £300+ for "new" stock and the slight extra performance just inst worth that to me.
The extra power will be useful for transcoding in Emby. Some of the heaviest things i have to transcode need 2-3 cores / 4-6 threads of the existing W3520 to keep up so a second similar stream causes jumpy playback when their peak transcode periods coincide. The W3680 with the higher clock and core count will hopefully nearly double the performance, or let me limit threads per stream.
I have had a W3680 running in the system as i borrowed the CPU from my main PC for a while although after all my development, for setting up the final server i started fresh with the hardware ive had running for the last few months to ensure my mistakes and setup experiments were not going to come back and bite.
At this moment i cant justify changing the motherboard/ram/CPU for a complete new generation of server grade kit hence the CPU change however in a few months i may add more memory although ive never had any memory issues.
Ill be upgrading my CPU next week from quad core to hex core CPU.
I'm simply thinking i can shutdown the server (currently on 112+ days uptime), change out the CPU and power on the server.
Will FreeNas be upset at all in some way by seeing more cores than was present at install? I would think not but i don't want to upset it by not doing something i'm perhaps supposed to do to prepare it.
Any advise would be appreciated.
____
More info:
I'm replacing a W3520 with a W3680 Xeon the which is the second most powerful my motherboard can take. That would be the W3690 which is not easy to get in the UK/EU without paying £300+ for "new" stock and the slight extra performance just inst worth that to me.
The extra power will be useful for transcoding in Emby. Some of the heaviest things i have to transcode need 2-3 cores / 4-6 threads of the existing W3520 to keep up so a second similar stream causes jumpy playback when their peak transcode periods coincide. The W3680 with the higher clock and core count will hopefully nearly double the performance, or let me limit threads per stream.
I have had a W3680 running in the system as i borrowed the CPU from my main PC for a while although after all my development, for setting up the final server i started fresh with the hardware ive had running for the last few months to ensure my mistakes and setup experiments were not going to come back and bite.
At this moment i cant justify changing the motherboard/ram/CPU for a complete new generation of server grade kit hence the CPU change however in a few months i may add more memory although ive never had any memory issues.