Will this Ryzen build FreeNAS? And should I go with SCALE over CORE?

[ChrisRJ]

"validated to work as intended even under heavy workloads"

Thanks, @Etorix. This is a really crucial point to make. For a few clicks on a YouTube video it is sufficient to "get a welcome screen". Well, a bit more probably. But it is still very far from having a system run reliably under adverse conditions. And the latter is what people are after, even if they are not aware.

 

[allanonmage]

Ahhh, you guys are talking about the difference of "it worked once and we tested once in optimal conditions" vs "it works so good it can't fail".

When developing code, that distinction also becomes important. Same for military/combat training.

 

[Etorix]

Ahhh, you guys are talking about the difference of "it worked once and we tested once in optimal conditions" vs "it works so good it can't fail".

That's another way to put it…

Another nice and recent example is Thunderbolt. CORE would likely just ignore it. Reportedly, SCALE does recognise the hardware but does nothing with it. And the official comment from iXSystems' Senior VP of Product Management is:

There's no expectation it should work...

Bearing in mind that iXSystems paying customers have likely no interest in a Thunderbolt DAS serving a single client over a NAS which can serve a whole department, or the whole company, no one is going to foot the bill for a developer to actually make something of the stubs of hardware support in the Debian distro which underlies SCALE.