I am soliciting input on the processor and motherboard for my first time home server/nas box . Having reviewed many of the threads on the forums (which is great, btw), including the Haswell vs Avoton for Mini-ITX NAS thread, I have narrowed the candidates to an E3-1231v3 system and an AMD Opteron 4300 series system. Specifically, below are the systems that I'm considering as modified from the input provided below:
E3-1231v3 system:
Processor: Intel E3-1231v3
Motherboard: Supermicro X10SSL-F
AMD Opteron 4300 system:
Processor: AMD Opteron 4332HE OR 4334
Motherboard: Supermicro H8SCM-F
Common:
16GB ECC RAM 32GB ECC RAM
5 to 6 HHDs in RAID6 or RAIDZ2
1 or 2 SSD for OS/Applications/Containers
M1015 Controller Dell PERC H310 (purchased)
Fractal Design Node 804 case (purchased)
FSP Group 450W 80 Plus Platinum Aurum 92+ series power supply (purchased)
The system will run Fedora or CentOS. I plan to use the system as a file server, OwnCloud server, Plex Media Server, OpenVPN gateway, and MythTV backend. Ultimately, I want to run all of the above in Docker containers. If I can run all of the above applications in containers, I will also run the MariaDB and NGINX servers in separate Docker containers as they will be shared between other containers.
MythTV and Plex will likely stress the system the most. I plan on using both MythTV and Plex to stream HD 1080i video to mobile devices on my WLAN. As such, the video will require realtime transcoding. Also, MythTV can be quite IO intensive when recording.
If the two systems were the same price, I would undoubtedly purchase the E3-1200v3 system. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Currently, I can put together the Opteron 4300 system from parts on E-bay for about $200 to $250 less than the e3-1200v3 system.
Is the Opteron system sufficient for my needs? Does the increased performance of the e3-1200v3 system justify the extra $200 to $250? Is there another system I should consider?
Thanks in advanced for any input.
E3-1231v3 system:
Processor: Intel E3-1231v3
Motherboard: Supermicro X10SSL-F
AMD Opteron 4300 system:
Processor: AMD Opteron 4332HE OR 4334
Motherboard: Supermicro H8SCM-F
Common:
5 to 6 HHDs in RAID6 or RAIDZ2
1 or 2 SSD for OS/Applications/Containers
Fractal Design Node 804 case (purchased)
FSP Group 450W 80 Plus Platinum Aurum 92+ series power supply (purchased)
The system will run Fedora or CentOS. I plan to use the system as a file server, OwnCloud server, Plex Media Server, OpenVPN gateway, and MythTV backend. Ultimately, I want to run all of the above in Docker containers. If I can run all of the above applications in containers, I will also run the MariaDB and NGINX servers in separate Docker containers as they will be shared between other containers.
MythTV and Plex will likely stress the system the most. I plan on using both MythTV and Plex to stream HD 1080i video to mobile devices on my WLAN. As such, the video will require realtime transcoding. Also, MythTV can be quite IO intensive when recording.
If the two systems were the same price, I would undoubtedly purchase the E3-1200v3 system. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Currently, I can put together the Opteron 4300 system from parts on E-bay for about $200 to $250 less than the e3-1200v3 system.
Is the Opteron system sufficient for my needs? Does the increased performance of the e3-1200v3 system justify the extra $200 to $250? Is there another system I should consider?
Thanks in advanced for any input.
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