SOLVED Will my possibily upgrade freenas?

[vic1707]

Hi,
I have the possibility to upgrade my actual FREENAS which is handle by a i3 2120 and 8Go of DDR3 (not ECC), to an old HP ProLiant DL585 G7 with Quad-Opteron 6272@2.10Ghz and 32Go DDR3 ECC.
I would like to know if FREENAS can use all of those CPUs and if this upgrade is a good idea (i know it's probably overkill). I would like to use my "new" FREENAS with some Windows and Linux VMs but most importantly (for me) is my PLEXmediaserver which can't actually handle too much streams with the i3 2120.

Thanks in advance!

 

[sretalla]

If you can handle the noise and power consumption, FreeNAS will use what you can give it.

You will probably not need all the cores you will have, but with some VMs, you can make use of them.

Transcoding with Plex should be fine also.

 

[vic1707]

Thanks for the reply, I think I can remove some CPUs if the server is too power consumptive?
Also I think even only one of those Opteron with 32Go of DDR3 ECC is better than my actual i3 2120 with 8Go DDR3 non-ECC, or I'm wrong?

 

[sretalla]

Yes to both questions. Fewer CPUs will reduce power consumption and as long as your motherboard supports one CPU with the number of DIMMs you have, ECC is better than not for FreeNAS.

 

[vic1707]

Ok thank you !
The system is a HP ProLiant DL585 G7 Server so it should handle less than 4 CPUs.

 

[sretalla]

The concern is that the memory slots are often dedicated per CPU, so not using all CPUs limits the memory you can use... depends on how you are getting to 32GB/how many slots.

 

[vic1707]

I will get the 32Go by using 4*8Go so i can set 1 stick per CPU if i use 4 of them or 4 stick on only one CPU.
Probably a silly question but can I associate ECC and non-ECC RAM? (I think not)

 

[sretalla]

You need to read the manual of the motherboard to ensure your plan will work.

Mixing ECC and non-ECC is not possible (in any case that I know about). Even if it were possible, I wouldn't do it.

 

[vic1707]

As i was thinking.
Thanks a lot.