Hi everyone!
I am looking for an affordable Proxmox home server; do you have any suggestions?
Currently, I am running mainly two VMs: a pfSense and a FreeNAS. PfSense acts as firewall between LAN and modem, while FreeNAS acts as home NAS by handling 2x6TB passed-through hard-disks in mirroring; FreeNAS activity may be classified as "light usage".
I read some threads (e.g. here, on Proxmox, and on FreeNAS forums) which oriented me to a second hand Xeon D1500 platform (e.g. D1520D4I) with 16/32GB of ECC RAM.
As far as I saw, I got these impressions: D1500 platform seems cheaper than Atom C2000/3000 and Xeon E3 platforms; I3 platforms cost as a Xeon D-ish platform; DDR4 ECC RAM looks really exclusive to my budget (i.e. 400/450€ MOBO + RAM + CPU).
Therefore, my question is: what platform do you suggest me for my usage?
Am I looking at platforms that are oversized to my use?
I had some experience at work with an HP Microserver Gen8 running FreeNAS and it seems to me that its performance are comparable to my N54L, while new GEN10 is not fully supported by Proxmox and/or FreeNAS.
P.S. I am quietly new here; I hope that I posted in the right section
P.P.S. I am living in EU.
I am looking for an affordable Proxmox home server; do you have any suggestions?
Currently, I am running mainly two VMs: a pfSense and a FreeNAS. PfSense acts as firewall between LAN and modem, while FreeNAS acts as home NAS by handling 2x6TB passed-through hard-disks in mirroring; FreeNAS activity may be classified as "light usage".
I read some threads (e.g. here, on Proxmox, and on FreeNAS forums) which oriented me to a second hand Xeon D1500 platform (e.g. D1520D4I) with 16/32GB of ECC RAM.
As far as I saw, I got these impressions: D1500 platform seems cheaper than Atom C2000/3000 and Xeon E3 platforms; I3 platforms cost as a Xeon D-ish platform; DDR4 ECC RAM looks really exclusive to my budget (i.e. 400/450€ MOBO + RAM + CPU).
Therefore, my question is: what platform do you suggest me for my usage?
Am I looking at platforms that are oversized to my use?
I had some experience at work with an HP Microserver Gen8 running FreeNAS and it seems to me that its performance are comparable to my N54L, while new GEN10 is not fully supported by Proxmox and/or FreeNAS.
P.S. I am quietly new here; I hope that I posted in the right section
P.P.S. I am living in EU.