CWWK N305 or Pentium 8505? Need advice

[ytzelf]

Hi guys,

New poster here, quite impressed with the info in this forum so looking forward to be more active.

I'm currently thinking of upgrading my current NAS (i3-10100 with standard workstation parts and a QNAP JBOD) with a more power efficient solution. Server is running Debian on metal and 50-something docker containers together with a 4x4tb raidz1 and I'll be setting it up in a Jonsbo N2 case.

I'm hesitating between these two CWWK models

• Option 1: N305 purple PCB
• Option 2: Pentium 8505

I've drafted the below table but unsure what others opinion might be that have made that choice recently, or maybe I missed something? The # of SATA ports is irrelevant right now as the N2 only supports 5 drives (and I don't need much more I've been going with 12tb of usefull capacity forever at this stage..).

Thank you very much !

	Pros
Option 1: N305	Better SATA Chip (Asmedia vs JMB585) Lower TDP
Option 2: Pentium 8505	More PCIE Lanes Dual rank RAM Better single thread performance

 

[asychev]

My experience with Option 1 is quite bad so far

 

[ytzelf]

My experience with Option 1 is quite bad so far

That's ... disappointing. Was that with the latest BIOS?

 

[asychev]

That's ... disappointing. Was that with the latest BIOS?

Yes

 

[yoinked]

The purple board is great in terms of power consumption, whilst the pentium one will suck because it has a JMB585

 

[louie1961]

Personally I would go with their AMD board, which they say accepts ECC RAM (but the way it is worded is a bit janky): "Dual-channel SO-DIMM DDR5 slot supports server-grade ECC notebook strip"

CWWK AMD-7735HS/7840HS/8845HS/7940HS 8-bay/9-bay NAS/USB4/40G rate 8K display 4 network 2.5G/9 SATA/PCIe x16 ITX motherboard

Motherboard core features Equipped with AMD "Zen 4" architecture Ryzen ™5/7/9 series high-performance processors 17x17 standard Mini-ITX form factor compatible with 1700 series CPU coolers 1 PCI-E x16 slot PCle4.0 x8 signal supports expansion of graphics card/network card etc. 2 M.2 NVMe(PCle4.0...

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[ytzelf]

Personally I would go with their AMD board, which they say accepts ECC RAM (but the way it is worded is a bit janky): "Dual-channel SO-DIMM DDR5 slot supports server-grade ECC notebook strip"

CWWK AMD-7735HS/7840HS/8845HS/7940HS 8-bay/9-bay NAS/USB4/40G rate 8K display 4 network 2.5G/9 SATA/PCIe x16 ITX motherboard

Motherboard core features Equipped with AMD "Zen 4" architecture Ryzen ™5/7/9 series high-performance processors 17x17 standard Mini-ITX form factor compatible with 1700 series CPU coolers 1 PCI-E x16 slot PCle4.0 x8 signal supports expansion of graphics card/network card etc. 2 M.2 NVMe(PCle4.0...

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Thanks for the suggestion but this is way above budget and I'd need quicksync