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I was 100% sure that intel was for me and after reading and pricing and comparing, along with looking at a lot of specs posted here I find myself looking very hard at AMD. Thanks for the info on upcoming chips as I was looking at current. Kind of a side note but same idea is my laptop (Dell...

Hopefully I'll know first hand soon enough. You Guys have been giving some good topics to deep dive on and potentially build once I determine the parts.

Both but more reads than writes typically. I've started playing with FreeNAS and the ESXi apps from USB inside VMware workstation as I read through these forums to get a bytes idea of what questions to ask and where my lack of knowledge lies. Now that you've mentioned RAID6 I'm seeing it in...

Disk I/O is probably one of my biggest concerns. Based on cost and reality my hope is that by using SATA 6/GBs 7200RPM drives in a hardware RAID 10 configuration that I may still be okay. I currently have a dual-core, 8GB machine with one RAID for the OS and applications and a RAID-10 for my...

I have been reading a ton of data on this topic and I've gottta admit (sheepishly) that I haven't researched the zfs thread. Partially because I didn't think to and partially due to it being even further outside my comfort zone. I'll read up on those tomorrow...thanks for the heads up and...

Looking for some intitial guidance... End Goal: One Physical machine with many purposes What this is being used for: - Centralizing, Limiting footprint, Testing, Education, Mimic systems I work with Desired Virtual Systems: - One physical system that runs 7 VM's (24/7) - 4 of...