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I need some advice or suggestion on making final hardware selection from narrowed down choices for ZFS NAS build.
Chipset
Large parts of hardware selections will be based on selection of the chipset, hence it is the crucial part of the decision. When making suggestion, take into consideration of future hardware outlook, such as DDR4 support, ECC SODIMM, SSD capacity increase and price drop, etc.
Intel C224 ECC Unbuffered memory Socket LGA 1150
Intel C226 ECC Unbuffered memory Socket LGA 1150
Intel C602 ECC Registered memory support Socket LGA 2011
The motherboard will have only one processor socket.
Memory
Depending on the chipset, memory will be either unbuffered or registered memory with ECC.
Price between two memory types doesn't differ much which are around 90 USD per 8GB.
Amount of memory will be either 16GB or 32GB consisting of 8GB to 16GB sticks depending on the chipset selection.
Hard Disk Drives
4 to 8 disks consisting of 2TB to 4TB HDD
They will all be enterprise HDD of SATA or SAS interface of same models.
Some of models that I am considering are.
WD SE series with 64MB cache.
WD RE series with 64 MB cache.
Seagate Constellation 128MB cache.
Processor
The selection will depend on selection of the chipset.
The processor will be quad core Xeon with ECC support costing around 200USD to 300USD.
Specs will range from 1.8GHz to 3.1GHz with 8MB to 10MB cache with no hyperthread and turboboost.
Intel C600 series chipset definitely offers better scalability overall, but will get outdated in a year and means extra cost. Intel C224 and C226 in the other hand can support more of the latest peripheral connects such as all SATA III ports.
Chipset
Large parts of hardware selections will be based on selection of the chipset, hence it is the crucial part of the decision. When making suggestion, take into consideration of future hardware outlook, such as DDR4 support, ECC SODIMM, SSD capacity increase and price drop, etc.
Intel C224 ECC Unbuffered memory Socket LGA 1150
Intel C226 ECC Unbuffered memory Socket LGA 1150
Intel C602 ECC Registered memory support Socket LGA 2011
The motherboard will have only one processor socket.
Memory
Depending on the chipset, memory will be either unbuffered or registered memory with ECC.
Price between two memory types doesn't differ much which are around 90 USD per 8GB.
Amount of memory will be either 16GB or 32GB consisting of 8GB to 16GB sticks depending on the chipset selection.
Hard Disk Drives
4 to 8 disks consisting of 2TB to 4TB HDD
They will all be enterprise HDD of SATA or SAS interface of same models.
Some of models that I am considering are.
WD SE series with 64MB cache.
WD RE series with 64 MB cache.
Seagate Constellation 128MB cache.
Processor
The selection will depend on selection of the chipset.
The processor will be quad core Xeon with ECC support costing around 200USD to 300USD.
Specs will range from 1.8GHz to 3.1GHz with 8MB to 10MB cache with no hyperthread and turboboost.
Intel C600 series chipset definitely offers better scalability overall, but will get outdated in a year and means extra cost. Intel C224 and C226 in the other hand can support more of the latest peripheral connects such as all SATA III ports.