DeChache
Supreme [H]ardness
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The time has come to rebuild my home NAS its old and doesn't really support enough ram for consistent performance.
I've been running on a L5630 with 16GB DDR3 ECC for the last year or so and it does its job but cache hits and paging can get back and considering I use it mainly to back ESXi hosts it gets annoying.
Currently it has 3 different arrays a
I hope to expand the SSD array enough in the near future to get rid of the 600GB 10K drives.
I'm considering just going with a Skylake based i3-6100 with 32GB of ECC (Supports up to 64GB) to replace the above box. The L5630 is a 4C 8T chip but its old only runs at 2.13 GHz and almost never shows any load. So my though is that a 2C 4T chip at 3.8GHz should be more than sufficient. I do run compression but just the base LZ4. I have no need for encryption at the volume level. I would like to look into running dedupe but haven't had it thus far so I can live with out it.
Any thoughts on using an i3 over a stronger CPU for my use case?
I've been running on a L5630 with 16GB DDR3 ECC for the last year or so and it does its job but cache hits and paging can get back and considering I use it mainly to back ESXi hosts it gets annoying.
Currently it has 3 different arrays a
- RaidZ1 of 4 160 GB SSDs
- 4 Drive Mirror of 600GB 10K drives with 2 SSDs for ZIL
- RaidzZ1 of 6 3TB Reds in 3 drive groups. (Mainly just file serving but I do have a couple large VMs here too. nothing high traffic)
I hope to expand the SSD array enough in the near future to get rid of the 600GB 10K drives.
I'm considering just going with a Skylake based i3-6100 with 32GB of ECC (Supports up to 64GB) to replace the above box. The L5630 is a 4C 8T chip but its old only runs at 2.13 GHz and almost never shows any load. So my though is that a 2C 4T chip at 3.8GHz should be more than sufficient. I do run compression but just the base LZ4. I have no need for encryption at the volume level. I would like to look into running dedupe but haven't had it thus far so I can live with out it.
Any thoughts on using an i3 over a stronger CPU for my use case?
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