To dual or not to dual?

[jkaechler]

Greetings Freenas citizens.......

I have an old Poweredge sc1425 lying around, and I thought i should stick a couple drives in it and make use of it with freenas.
It has two Xeon 2.8ghz cpu's with hyperthreading already in it, along with 4gb of ddr2.
these are the old pentium4 era xeon chips.

my question is, can freenas make use of both chips, or would i be better off pulling one of them out?
the system is gonna be booting off a usb stick, and have 2 2tb drives in it.

thanks for your input!

 

[SnorreSelmer]

I run a Core2Quad in my server, but I rarely use more than two cores (1.something actually). I'd say try one CPU and see if it's enough.