Hi,
being conscious of cost (hardware, power consumption) I am wondering whether I should go for the Supermicro A2SDI board with 4 cores (4x2,2GHz, 8MB) or for the one with 8 cores (8x2,2GHz, 16MB). Planning to equipe my small home office with 2 Linux VMs and Office work (LibreOffice) / internet browsing requirements (no gaming, maybe 1 VM Win7, but only used one time a month for tax declaration software pruposes). Data resides on a small Synology DiskStation (do not intend to move the data to the server, i.e. only planning on installing just a M.2 NVM SSD on the server for Proxmox itself and the two VM installations). My network is 1 GbE.
I don't want to spent the extra money for 8 cores if I don't need them and if the additional cores would idle most of the time; but then on the other hand I also do not want to invest a few hundred dollars/Euros in new hardware, still underspend and then be disappointed and not have a satisfactory user experience. I am planing to run SPICE on the two clients and not have a GPU board installed in the server - hoping this is a good way to go).
(Note: Comparing the specs of the boards the differences, besides number of cores, between the boards appear marginal to me and given my use case described above don't seem relevant to me).
Can someone please advise and help in the decision making please?
Thanks
being conscious of cost (hardware, power consumption) I am wondering whether I should go for the Supermicro A2SDI board with 4 cores (4x2,2GHz, 8MB) or for the one with 8 cores (8x2,2GHz, 16MB). Planning to equipe my small home office with 2 Linux VMs and Office work (LibreOffice) / internet browsing requirements (no gaming, maybe 1 VM Win7, but only used one time a month for tax declaration software pruposes). Data resides on a small Synology DiskStation (do not intend to move the data to the server, i.e. only planning on installing just a M.2 NVM SSD on the server for Proxmox itself and the two VM installations). My network is 1 GbE.
I don't want to spent the extra money for 8 cores if I don't need them and if the additional cores would idle most of the time; but then on the other hand I also do not want to invest a few hundred dollars/Euros in new hardware, still underspend and then be disappointed and not have a satisfactory user experience. I am planing to run SPICE on the two clients and not have a GPU board installed in the server - hoping this is a good way to go).
(Note: Comparing the specs of the boards the differences, besides number of cores, between the boards appear marginal to me and given my use case described above don't seem relevant to me).
Can someone please advise and help in the decision making please?
Thanks
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