CPU for a Free Nas

OK, SO!

I have a plan of making a FreeNAS server at my home. I want to use it for things like couch-potato, SickBeard, Bit-Torrent Sync, and Plex. I also plan on running a few VM's and custom jails. Though it's main use will be as a NAS for media storage and transcoding. I saw the motherboard that Logan used in his 40 tb Nas and that onboard cpu, and have heard of it on the channel before. But, I have a 6 core amd from like 2013 laying around. Would I expect more performance off the integrated cpu over my old amd for vms and transcoding?

P.S. (when I say transcoding, I mean for something like mythbuntu, or for transcoding ripped dvds. nothing crazy overkill)

Thanks

That AMD CPU should be fine. It depends on how many simultaneous plex streams you're going to have, but I would say that cpu can handle 2 or 3 1080p streams, give or take, depending on quality of the rip.

Keep in mind that while AMD does somewhat poorly on windows compared to modern Intel CPU's, AMD CPU's are still very powerful when running Linux or BSD.

It would heavily depend on the cpu, for future reference, the onboard processor that was used in the video is the atom C2750. 8x2.4GHz. If you have a FX 6300, you'll get slightly better performance from the AMD cpu.

If you can get me more details, I'll be able to help you more.

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Well if you already have the FX, I would try to get that running. It should support ECC, just make sure the mainboard does too. Asus is pretty good with that on the AMD side.

ECC is optional, not mandatory. I've been running both my fileserver and my local desktop on ZFS for close to 4 years now with only a single checksum error, which was corrected silently.

The only time that you're going to need ECC is if you buy evil ram.

Friends don't let friends buy evil ram.

I don't care for that discussion. I just wanted to point out, that it is an option.

Ah, perhaps I misunderstood.

I was under the impression you were saying ECC was the only way.

That said, you're right that the FX cpu's all support ECC. It's just down to the motherboard at that point.

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I can tell you from experience with both that the Phennom II X6 or any of the newer 6 core AMD chips is much faster than the 8 core avalon. However the Avalon only uses 15W and is fast enough for the types of things you want to do, so it may be more worthwhile in the long run. Plus it's a newer chip and will be faster at certain tasks.

The difference is going to be $45/year at my local electricity costs. ($0.29/kw) So, it depends on how long it's going to be in production. I wouldn't be concerned about power consumption personally.

I run both systems, I'm just saying that the AMD system uses much more power. A lot of people seem to be irrationally afraid of a few extra watts even though as you say it's very easy to work out the actual cost. For my three 24/7 systems plus the network I use 300W idle and up to around 400W under load. I think I worked it out to costing $1.50 a day or something like that. So it's not insignificant but considering my last power bill was $500, reducing the power consumption of the server isn't going to make much of a difference.

Dang, I run a phenomII 1075t 6 core and my power bill is only about 78 bux a month 125 watt , the power rating on this one is maybe 32 cents a day...

Yeah that's about how much mine uses, but I have three systems that run 24/7. Power here is expensive, like everything else in Australia

Maybe you could use solar to compensate for the high energy cost?

Alright well thanks guys. I think I am gonna stick with the amd. If it doesnt work out I will replace the cpu in the m-itx motherboard.

Thanks guys!

I've seen the Phenom X4's and X6's used for nas stuff to great use.