x130844
Dabbler
- Joined
- Oct 25, 2020
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Hi,
I'm currently running
z87x motherboard
intel i5 4570s
32gb memory (maxed out).
lsi card
10gb network card.
Freenas 11.x worked great.
I'm about to re-arrange my whole computer situation, upgrading other machines (workstations, etc)
I was considering upgrading this freenas server as well, but considering that the load is rarely over 4% for CPU and it works great and I only use this for local file server (I get great speed on freenas, (not so much on truenas yet) + only 2 small linux VM (for home assistant , piehole), and plex (serving only this house, no media conversion).
Confirm that there's no need to upgrade the hardware here for its usage. (stuck at 32gb because of the motherboard/cpu is ok too, right for my case?)
I'm not missing anything here, right?
PS: unrelated: if a platform for example: x570 mobs + ryzen says they have 20 lanes. but one motherboard includes natively a 10gb port, does that port take away extra PCI lanes that would have been available to me? or did they manage to "find" extra lanes for this 10gb port? How does that work?
The main reason is: Would I "free" up some PCI lanes if I buy a mobo with integrated 10gb, compared to if I had to plug a pci-e card which would take 4 pci lanes.
Thanks you!
I'm currently running
z87x motherboard
intel i5 4570s
32gb memory (maxed out).
lsi card
10gb network card.
Freenas 11.x worked great.
I'm about to re-arrange my whole computer situation, upgrading other machines (workstations, etc)
I was considering upgrading this freenas server as well, but considering that the load is rarely over 4% for CPU and it works great and I only use this for local file server (I get great speed on freenas, (not so much on truenas yet) + only 2 small linux VM (for home assistant , piehole), and plex (serving only this house, no media conversion).
Confirm that there's no need to upgrade the hardware here for its usage. (stuck at 32gb because of the motherboard/cpu is ok too, right for my case?)
I'm not missing anything here, right?
PS: unrelated: if a platform for example: x570 mobs + ryzen says they have 20 lanes. but one motherboard includes natively a 10gb port, does that port take away extra PCI lanes that would have been available to me? or did they manage to "find" extra lanes for this 10gb port? How does that work?
The main reason is: Would I "free" up some PCI lanes if I buy a mobo with integrated 10gb, compared to if I had to plug a pci-e card which would take 4 pci lanes.
Thanks you!